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Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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-white edges, and two transverse bands of thesame on the tips of the first row of small coverts and the secondary coverts. Length to end of tail 5i inches; extent of wings 9; bill along the ridgeT52J wing from flexure 3T22-; tail 2^; tarsus ^ hind toe ;;, its claw yf; thirdtoe T42, its claw yf. The female, which is somewhat less, has the black of the forehead andthroat tinged with brown, the crimson patch on the head of less extent, thesides and rump destitute of red. LESSER REDPOLL LINNET. ■ Linaria Minor, Ray.PLATE CLXXIX.—Male and Female. When I was in Labrador, my young companions and my son one day (the27th of July, 1S33), procured eight individuals of this species, of differentsexes and ages. Next morning I went to the place where they had beenshot, and found a good number remaining. The first observation I madehad reference to their notes, which, instead of resembling those of the Gold-finch, as alleged by an American writer, are very similar to those of the X?.3(j. PL 179.
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