Lesser Red Poll. 
This bird is a common Winter visitor, 
arriving in November and remaining usu- 
ally until the middle or last of March. 
To-day, April 14th, I shot one, the latest 
I have known them to remain. The last 
of March, 1878, 1 was fortunate enough to 
find the nest and eggs ©f this species. 
The nest, now before me, is composed of 
fine dry twigs, dried grasses, fine strips of 
fibrous bark, bits of twine, hair, fibrous 
roots, moss, dried leaves, pieces of co- 
coons, feathers, thistle down, and other 
material, which is neatly woven together 
into a compact structure and lined with 
hair. It was placed very loosely among 
the top branches of a small spruce, about 
six feet from the ground, and contained 
three fresh eggs of a very pale bluish 
green color, sparingly marked with spots 
and splashes of different shades of brown 
at the larger end. Dimensions, .72X-48, 
.72X-47, .71X.48. — C. 0. Tracy , Tafts- 
ville, Vt. 
[We kept one of these birds in a cage for two seasons. 
It made a good cage bird, but was very restless in the even- 
ing until midnight during the Spring and Fall migration, qq 
and had a peculiar call during the night. It remained per- CO 
fectly healthy. When changing its seed, it flew through the 00 
hole in the wires and went out the back door. Almost im- *3 
mediately we went out at the front door, and while watch- 
ing the fountain play, noticed what appeared to be a bird in -sj- 
the water. On removing it, it proved to be the Lesser Red 
Poll. The bright sun and the fountain spray lured the little 
Northern bird to its destruction. — E d.] 
The Red-poll Linnet ( Acanthis linaria) is 
another winter visitant of whose appearance 
j we cannot always speak of for a certainty. In 
1888 they came in large numbers, although 
they did not arrive until the spring months, 
the first being observed on March Oth. They 
remained in abundance during that month and 
April, the last ones being noted on May 1st. 
The winter of 1888 and 1889 did not furnish 
: me a note on this species, while this season 
they are exceedingly common. 
They were first seen Nov. 14, making the ex- 
treme dates at which I have seen them in this 
locality Nov. 11 and May 1. The Pine Linnet 
( Spinas pinus) which generally appears in 
greater or less numbers, often mingling with 
the Red Poll, has been watched for with inter- 
est but has not been noted thus far. 
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