320 BIRDS—FRINGILLID &. 
notes that Mr. Dury took a single specimen in the vicinity of Cincinnati 
in January, 1869. Dr. Brewer (1. c.) says: 
‘‘Dr. Kirtland informs me that early in the winter of 1868, his grandson picked up a 
wing-broken male Red-poll, ard placed it in his green-house. It began at once to feed 
on crumbs of bread and hay-seed. and rapidly recovered. It soon acquired the habit ot 
leaping from shelf to shelf, among the plants, and was finally seen climbing up some 
large Pelargonium shiubs, and suspending itself, parrot like,sby its feet from the limbs, 
capturing aphides. From that time it took no other food, living exclusively on the par- 
asitic insects of the plants. So active was it ia capturing these, that for two months it 
was not necessary to fumigate the green-house to destroy them. From day to day a 
female Red-poll hovered over the building, and her calls were responded to by the in- 
valid. Late in the season he escaped from his confinement, and was seen to join his 
faithful mate, which had reinained with him all winter.” 
In habits the Red-poll is said to resemble greatly the Common Yellow- 
bird, and its flight is similar. The nest is built in low trees and bushes: 
it is constructed of moss, grass, and catkins of willow, and lined with 
vegetable down. The eggs are light bluish-white, finely dotted with 
rusty-brown. They average .63 by 53. 
| GENUS CHRYSOMITRIS. Boie. 
Bill rather acutely conic. Nostrils concealed. Ridges on upper mandible obsolete. 
Tarsi shorter than middle toe, outer tee rather longer than inner. Claw of hind toe 
shorter than its digit. Wings and tail as in digiothus. 
CHRYSOMITRIS PINUS (Wils.) Bp. 
Wine Linnet. 
Fringilla pinea, STORER, Proc. Rost. Soc. Nat. Hist., ii, 1845, 52. 
Linaria pinus, KIRTLAND, Fam. Visitor, 1, 1850, 140. 
Chrysomitris pinus, BAIRD, P. R. k. Rep., ix, 18.8, 425.—WuHEaToN, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 
1860, 1861, 365; Reprint, 7; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. fur 1874, 1875, 
566; Reprint, 6.—LANGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 8; Revised List, Journ. Cin. 
Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 175; Reprint, 9. 
Pine Finch, KtRTLAND, Fam. Visitor, i, 1850, 148, 164; Am. Journ. Sci. and Arts, xiii, 
1852) 218. 
Fringitla pinus, Witson, Am. Orn., ii, 1810, 133. 
Chrysomitris pinus, BONAPARTE, List, 1838, 33. 
Bill extremely acute; continuously streaked above with dusky and olivacecus-brown 
or flaxen; below with dusky and whitish, the whole plumage in the breeding season 
more or less suffused with yellowish, particularly bright on the ramp; the bases of the 
quills and tail feathers extensively sulphury yellow, and all these feathers more or less 
edged externally with yellowish. Length, 4%; wing, 22; tail, 1%. 
Habitat, North America generally. United States chiefly in winter; south in Recky 
Mountains to Mexico. 
