LESSER REDPOLE. 
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INS ESS ORES. FRINQILLIDjE. 
CONIROSTIiES. 
LESSER REDPOLE. 
Fringilla linaria. 
PLATE LI. FIG. II. 
Mr. Yarrell mentions Halifax as the southern limit of 
the Lesser Redpole in this country during the breeding- 
season. It would appear, however, that it is distributed 
pretty generally through the midland counties. Mr. 
Wolley, who lives at Beeston, near Nottingham, informs 
me that it breeds in his neighbourhood, and that his 
brother has found its nest near Rugby, in Warwickshire. 
Mr. Briggs meets with it near Melbourne, in Derbyshire. 
Mr. Dash wood has found several nests near Beccles, in 
Suffolk. In the position of its nest this species dif¬ 
fers from those allied to it. It is usually placed, like 
that of the chaffinch, upon the bough of a low tree or 
single thorn, a hazel-bush bordering the outskirts of 
mountain woods, sometimes in alders by the margin of a 
stream, and occasionally upon the branches of a crab-tree, 
when forming part of a high hedge. Mr. A. Newton tells 
me that it breeds yearly near Thetford, building its nest, 
close to the trunk of the tree, in plantations of young 
larch firs of no great height; but that he once found a 
nest at least sixty feet from the ground, and this was 
placed near the outer end of a branch. It is very small, 
and of the most elegant construction, and is formed of the 
stalks of plants, roots, moss, and dry grass, with hair to¬ 
wards the inside, and is thickly and most beautifully lined 
