01 '- recently large flocks of Red Polls. 
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Acanthis linaria linaria. Redpoll. — Several flocks of from twenty- 
five to fifty birds were observed each week from December 25, 1916 to 
February 12, 1917. They were usually feeding in high, weedy fields on 
the edge of woods, but were sometimes grouped in the maple trees at the 
edge of the field, and on several instances on the lawn around the house. 
They have never been so common in this vicinity before to my knowledge. 
I think I have not seen more than half a dozen Redpolls before this in 
Stamford in the last twenty years. 
