LESSER REDPOLL. 
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eight and a half in extent ; crown and hind head, black ; 
cheeks, pure white ; from each lower mandible runs a streak 
of small black spots, those on the side, larger ; the rest of the 
lower parts, white ; primaries, black, edged with yellow ; rest 
of the wing, black, edged with ash ; the first and second row of 
coverts, broadly tipt with white ; back, ash, tinged with yellow 
ochre, and streaked laterally with black ; tail, black, edged 
with ash, the three exterior feathers marked on the inner webs 
with white ; bill, black above, whitish below, furnished with 
bristles at the base ; iris, hazel ; legs and feet, reddish yellow. 
The female differs very little in plumage from the male. 
LESSER REDPOLL FRINGILLA LINARIA. 
Plate XXX. Fig. 4. 
Lath. ii. 305 Arct. Zool. 379 Le Sizeren, Buff. iv. 216. PI. enl. 151, 2. — 
Peak's Museum , No. 6579. 
LINARIA MINOR Willoughby. 
Fringilla linaria, Bonap. St/nop. p. 112. 
This bird corresponds so exactly in size, figure, and colour 
of plumage, with that of Europe of the same name, as to place 
their identity beyond a doubt. They inhabit, during summer, 
the most northern parts of Canada, and still more remote 
northern countries, from whence they migrate at the commence- 
ment of winter. They appear in the Gennesee country with 
the first deep snow, and on that account are usually called by 
the title of Snow Birds. As the female is destitute of the 
crimson on the breast and forehead, and the young birds do 
not receive that ornament till the succeeding spring, such a 
small proportion of the individuals that form these flocks are 
marked with red, as to induce a general belief among the 
inhabitants of those parts that they are two different kinds 
associated together. Flocks of these birds have been occa- 
sionally seen in severe winters in the neighbourhood of 
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