|Family XV. FRINGILLINAE. FINCHES. GENUS VII. LINARIA, Ray.
LINNET. MEALY REDPOLL LINNET. |Genus||LINARIA BOREALIS, Temm.
Whilst in Newfoundland, I procured four specimens of this
curious bird, all of which were shot while feeding on the
berries of the summer apple. It was in the month of August, and
I well remember the pleasure I felt when at the same moment
several Indian boys approached and offered me their waterproof
bark baskets filled with those delightful berries equally
pleasing to my taste and that of the Mealy Redpoll. One of the
birds appeared to me to be an adult, but to have already changed
its spring livery for the plainer one exhibited in the Plate.
The others were evidently younger, as none of them shewed the
least appearance on the forehead, cheeks, breast of rump, of the
red colour that existed on the same parts of what perhaps was
their parent. In their habits I could see no difference between
them and the Common Redpoll; but their notes, although in some
degree similar, as is usually the c