. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. h black ; a lestnut and les washed dull white. 6 inches, air, roughly e lavender; uralization relation to e nrcpared r. "C. Hart ilturc, and hington in is Sparrow .lierated in >, so others I 1853. In n England eing taken idred were and New n. About il cities in ruffians in |nd village, lough some shed. inoittaims) l^vere liber- jzed there, resembles ^, however, a REDPOLL. LESSER REDPOLL. REDPOLL LINNET. ACAN'JHIS LlXAklA. CllAR. Above, brownish gray streaked w
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. h black ; a lestnut and les washed dull white. 6 inches, air, roughly e lavender; uralization relation to e nrcpared r. "C. Hart ilturc, and hington in is Sparrow .lierated in >, so others I 1853. In n England eing taken idred were and New n. About il cities in ruffians in |nd village, lough some shed. inoittaims) l^vere liber- jzed there, resembles ^, however, a REDPOLL. LESSER REDPOLL. REDPOLL LINNET. ACAN'JHIS LlXAklA. CllAR. Above, brownish gray streaked with dusky; rump white, tinged with rose pink and streaked with dusky; with patch of deep carmine; wings dusky brown with two white bars; below, white, sides heavily streaked with dusky ; chin and throat dusky ; breast deep rose pink. P>ill extremely acute ; in winter its color is yellow tii)pcd with black, but in summer the color is dull (Female differs from male only in lacking the red tints on rump and breast.) Length 4,'^ to 5 inches. Nest. In a low tree or amid a tuft of grass ; coni])osed of dry grass and moss lined with hair or feathers or plan! down. Ei;^i{s. 4-6; white tinged with green or blue, spotted with reddish brown ; X These elegant birds, which only pay us occasional and transient visits at distant inter\-als, are inhabitants of the whole Arctic circle to the confines of Siberia, and are found in Kam- tschatka and (Greenland as well as the colder parts of Iuiro])e. Arriving in roving flocks from the northern wilds of Canada, they are seen at times in the western parts of the State of New York with the fall of the first deep snow, and occasionally ])ro- ceed eastward to the very city of New York, where in the depth of winter, and for several weeks, they have been seen gleaning their scanty food of variotis kinds of seeds in the gardens of the town and suburbs. Flocks are likewise some- times seen in the vicinity of Philadelphia
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