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BRITISH BIRDS* 
LESSER REDPOLE. 
(. Fringilla Linaria , Lin . — Le Sizerin y Buff.) 
Length about five inches : Bill pale brown, 
point dulky ; eyes hazel ; the forehead is marked 
with a pretty large fpot, of a deep purplifh red^ 
the breaft is of the fame colour, but lefs bright ; 
the feathers on the back are dulky, edged with pale 
brown ; the greater and lefier coverts tipped with 
dirty white, forming two light bars acrofs the 
wing ; the belly and thighs are of a dull white $ the 
quills and tail dulky, edged with dirty white ; the 
latter fomewhat forked ; legs dulky. In our bird 
the rump was fomewhat reddilh, in which it agrees 
with the Twite of Mr Pennant, and moll probably 
conllitutes one fpecies with it and the Mountain 
Linnet, the differences being immaterial, and merely 
