. Handbook of birds of eastern North America [microform] : with keys to the species and descriptions of their plumages, nests and eggs, their distribution and migrations and a brief account of their haunts and habits with introductory chapters on the study of ornithology, how to identify birds and howto collect and preserve birds, their nests, and eggs. Birds; Birds; Birds; Ornithology; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Ornithologie; Ornithologie. FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 285. Fia. 80.—Redpoll. (Natural size.) hr'iK'lit red; luu-k fuHcous t;rnyinh lirowii, the tVuthiTs iMinjiiu'il witli o
. Handbook of birds of eastern North America [microform] : with keys to the species and descriptions of their plumages, nests and eggs, their distribution and migrations and a brief account of their haunts and habits with introductory chapters on the study of ornithology, how to identify birds and howto collect and preserve birds, their nests, and eggs. Birds; Birds; Birds; Ornithology; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Ornithologie; Ornithologie. FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 285. Fia. 80.—Redpoll. (Natural size.) hr'iK'lit red; luu-k fuHcous t;rnyinh lirowii, the tVuthiTs iMinjiiu'il witli oclirii- ; riiiuii tiii),'i'tl witli i>iiik ; wiiiirs iiiul tail fuscous, tliv t' umro or cd^'t'tl Willi whitisli; miildli; ot" tlu' tlinmt liliickisli, hrcuMtwulluwi'il with jiiiik, iK'Uy wliite, Hides streaked with fu-seous. .((/. 9 .- Siniiliir, hut ^vith(•ut pink on the ruuip or hreiust, tlie sides unuv heavily streaked. Im. —Similar to tlie 9, hut without a re«l erown- cup. L.,.V:$-2; W., 2S0; T.,2a-2; ; depth of B. at hase, "22. /I'a//*/*.—Breeds in the nortliern parts of » the northern heiuispliere; in winter nii^'rates irrej,'ularly southward, in Ameriea, to Illinois and Vir;.'inia. Washintfton, very rare and irrej,'ular W. V. SiiiK Sinundant, Oet. ;) to Apl. 10. Ned, of ilry f,'rass and moss lined with hair, feathers, or jdant down, in a low tree or tuft of ^' /sf/.'/^ f"i"' to si.\, white, tini,'ed witii jfreen or hlue, spotted with redtlish hrown, -t';! x •.')() (("hand)erlain). The little Redpoll is one of those birds thiit are best known hs win- ter visitors. Sometimes it eonies from tiie north in flocks w hen driven from home by the annual failure of the food supply, and speedily at- tracts attention by freipienting the gardens and orchards, even when these are within the limits of a town. In general habits it resembles a Goldfinch, and while with us it finds its wants sup
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