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its fore part, the breast, and flanks, rich carmine ; the middle of the breast, 
the abdomen, and the lower tail-coverts white, tinged with rose-colour ; 
the sides longitudinally streaked with dusky. 
Length to end of tail 5 ; to end of wings 4 ; extent of wings 81 ; wing 
from flexure 3 fV; tail 21; bill along the ridge fj-, along the edge of lower 
mandible tarsus r \ ; first toe its claw fL; middle toe |L, its claw T \. 
Adult Female in summer. 
The female, which is somewhat less, has the black of the forehead and 
throat more brown, with less red on the head, and little or none on the 
rump, or on the lower parts, which are white, the bi’east and flanks longi- 
tudinally streaked with dusky. 
PINE LINNET. 
Linaria Pinus, Wils. 
PLATE OLXXX.— -Male and Female. 
During the winter months, the Pine Finch is such a wanderer, that it 
ranges at irregular periods, from the coast line westward to the banks of 
the Ohio, and southward to the Carolinas. Now and then, during severe 
weather, with occasional storms of snow, I have seen flocks of a hundred 
individuals or more, rambling in search of a place in which to alight and 
seek for nourishment. In December, T833, I shot several near Charleston 
in South Carolina, and on a previous winter procured five near Henderson 
in Kentucky. Their visits to those districts, however, are of short dura- 
tion, the least increase of temperature seeming to recall them to their more 
northern haunts ; and as soon as spring commences, they all disappear from 
the districts south of Maine and the adjacent countries. 
In August and September, 1832, while travelling in the British provinces, 
1 and my companions frequently met with flocks of these birds, in company 
with the American Crossbill, feeding amid the branches of the tallest fir 
trees, as well as on the seeds of the thistles of that country, much in the 
manner of the American Goldfinch, and the European Siskin. When dis- 
turbed, they would rise high in the air in an irregular flight, emitting their 
peculiar call-note as they flew; but would always realight as soon as another 
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