. Our native songsters . y employed as in stripping the willow catkinof its down, or the alder or thistle of its seeds,for it injmes the trees by eating their youngbuds. This smallest of our linnets is, like the commonspecies, a sweet and gentle little bird. Audubonremarks of the redpoles, It was pleasing to seeseveral on a twig, feeding each other by passinga seed from bill to bill, one individual sometimesreceiving from his two neighbours at the sametime. It is sometimes called the Eose Linnet. The Mealy Linnet (Linota canescens), some-times called the Mealy Redpole, is so similar tothe bird
. Our native songsters . y employed as in stripping the willow catkinof its down, or the alder or thistle of its seeds,for it injmes the trees by eating their youngbuds. This smallest of our linnets is, like the commonspecies, a sweet and gentle little bird. Audubonremarks of the redpoles, It was pleasing to seeseveral on a twig, feeding each other by passinga seed from bill to bill, one individual sometimesreceiving from his two neighbours at the sametime. It is sometimes called the Eose Linnet. The Mealy Linnet (Linota canescens), some-times called the Mealy Redpole, is so similar tothe bird just described, that it is still a matterof dispute whether it is not of the same is properly an inhabitant of the northernregions of both hemispheres. Many of these birds,however, visit om* island in flocks during thewinter, and are caught by the London bird-catcher. It is a pleasing and gentle bird, but itssong is weak. Among our commonest birds may be mentionedthat pre,tty species, the Greenfinch, or Green.
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