Plate CCCLXXV. Male and Female.
Male with the upper part of the head crimson; the sides of the neck,
its fore part, the breast, and flanks, rich carmine; a band edging the
forehead, the loral space, and the throat, brownish-black; the hind
part of the head, the neck, the fore part of the back, and the
scapulars deep-brown, streaked with pale yellowish-brown; the feathers
on the rump margined with whitish, and tipped with carmine; feathers
of the wings and tail brown, edged with yellowish-brown, of which
there are two bands on the wings formed by the tips of the secondary
coverts and first row of small coverts; middle of the breast, abdomen,
and lower tail-coverts white, tinged with rose-colours; the sides
longitudinally streaked with dusky. Female somewhat less, with the
back of the forehead and throat more brown, less red on the head, and
little or none on the rump or lower parts, which are white, the breast
and flanks streaked with dusky. Young with the feathers of the upper
parts blackish-brown, edged with yellowish-brown, the rump
yellowish-grey, the lower parts dull white, streaked with
blackish-brown; no red on any part.
_Male_, 5, 8-3/4.
From Pennsylvania and New Jersey to Maine, in winter; inland, to
Kentucky. Breeds in Maine, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Labrador, and
the Fur Countries. Abundant. Migratory.
Lesser Redpoll, Fringilla linaria, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. iv. p.
42.
Fringilla linaria, Bonap. Syn. p. 112.
Linaria minor, Lesser Redpoll, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer.
v. i. p. 267.
Lesser Redpoll, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 512.
Lesser Redpoll, Fringilla Linaria, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p.
533.