. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America . land, Me., the remainder being takento Quebec. During the following ten years a few hundred werebrought from Europe and scattered between Portland and NewYork, some thirty being turned out on Boston Common. About1869 a thousand were taken to Philadelphia, and several cities inthe interior received each a few pairs. Froin these imported birds have sprung the hosts of ruffians infeathers that have taken possession of every town and village,from Cape Breton to Florida, and west to the plains. A few pairs were taken to southern Gre
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America . land, Me., the remainder being takento Quebec. During the following ten years a few hundred werebrought from Europe and scattered between Portland and NewYork, some thirty being turned out on Boston Common. About1869 a thousand were taken to Philadelphia, and several cities inthe interior received each a few pairs. Froin these imported birds have sprung the hosts of ruffians infeathers that have taken possession of every town and village,from Cape Breton to Florida, and west to the plains. A few pairs were taken to southern Greenland, and though somelived through several winters, the entire Hock at last perished. Note. — The European Tree Sparrow {Passer moiitanus)has also been introduced. A few years ago a number were liber-ated in .St. Louis, and have become thoroughly naturalized bird is closely related to the House Sparrow, which it resemblesin appearance and in habits. The Tree Sparrow has not, however,increased so rapidly as its congener, nor proved so great a REDPOLL. LESSER REDPOLL. REDPOLL LINARIA. Char. Above, brownish gray streaked with dusky; rump white,tinged with rose pink and streaked with dusky; forehead with patch ofdeep carmine; wings dusky brown with two white bars; below, white,sides heavily streaked with dusky; chin and throat dusky; breast deeprose pink. Bill extremely acute ; in winter its color is yellow tipped withblack, but in summer the color is dull blackish. (Female differs frommale only in lacking the red tints on rump and breast.) Length 4/4 to 5inches. Nest. In a low tree or amid a tuft of grass ; composed of dry grass andmoss lined with hair or feathers or plant down. Ei^gs. 4-6; white tinged with green or blue, spotted with reddishbrown ; X These elegant birds, which only pay us occasional andtransient visits at distant intervals, are inhabitants of the wholeArctic circle to the confines of Siberia, and are foimd in Kam-
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