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4. iEgiotlms linaria. Common Redpoll. — In his list of the birds 
of the Magdalen Islands,* Mr. Cory included this species “with great hes- 
itation,” a single specimen, so badly mangled that it could not be positively 
identified, being the only one which came under his notice. Mr. Fra- 
zar, however, found it abundant on both Amherst and Grindstone Islands 
where many large flocks were seen feeding among the spruces. Owing to 
lack of time and the pressure of other duties he secured only two speci- 
mens. but as these are both in first plumage the breeding of the species 
there may be considered assured. The following description is taken 
from the younger of the two examples just mentioned. 
Juv., first plumage {$ , Magdalen Islands, June 29, 1S82. M. A. Fra- 
zar). Entire plumage of the head and body, excepting the throat, cheeks, 
and abdomen, thickly and coarsely streaked with dull black on a pale 
ochracehus or brownish-white ground; tips of the greater and middle 
wing-coverts with the outer edges of the tertials, ochraceous-white ; throat 
black; cheeks brown ish-ochraceous ; center of the abdomen brownish- 
white and immaculate; no red on the vertex. 
Bull N. O.O, 7 , Oot, 1882, p. 5 ~. 
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717. Lesser Red Poll . (. Adgiothus linaria'). By C. O. Tracy. Ibid., 
p. 47. — “Nest and eggs of this species” found “the last of March, 1878,” 
at Taftsville, Vt. ! The species was doubtless the Pine Finch ( Chrysomi - 
Iris j) intis ) . O.VoLVIII ? 
The Redpoll Breeding on the Magdalen Islands.— It may be of some 
interest to know that a nest of a Redpoll ( Acanthis linaria) was found on 
Grosse Isle, Magdalen Islands, this year by Mr. H. H. Hann and the writer 
of this note, while on a short trip to the Islands in June of this year. It 
was the day before we left Grosse Isle that the nest was found, and most 
of our belongings were packed for our homeward journey but nevertheless 
we decided to spend this last day, June 29 , on the hill a little to the east 
of the settlement. About one third the way up this hill, amid the spruce 
trees, we discovered a small nest in a spruce about six feet from the ground. 
It was placed near the trunk of the tree and was a dainty affair, neat and 
rather compact, composed of coarse grass and a goodly quantity of deer 
moss lined with feathers, about three and one half inches in diameter, 
and containing four young birds four or five days old. After we had 
waited there for some time both parent birds returned to the nest. There 
was no mistake in the identification of these active little birds, with their 
dark throats and red foreheads, the male with a conspicuous red patch 
on his breast. 
It might also be of interest to note that the Scaup Duck ( Aythya marila), 
found quite abundantly on the Magdalens by both Rev. C. J. Young and 
the Rev. H. K. Job, on their visits to the Islands, were this year no where 
to be found and the islanders could not account for their sudden disap- 
pearance. — J. P. Callender, Summit, N. J. 
‘fusfe, XX111, Jar.., 1906, p 3 
