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Range (Arctic regions south in winter)

Arctic regions; south in winter rarely to the northern United States.

Cambridge, casual W. V.

Nest, of grass and twigs lined with feathers, in a low tree or on the ground. Eggs, three to five, white, tinged with blue or green, spotted with reddish brown, 65 x 50 (Chamberlain). 528. Acanthis linaria (Linn.). REDPOLL. Ad. 8. -Bill very sharply pointed, a small tuft of bristly feathers over the nostrils; crown-cap FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. bright red; back fuscous grayish brown, the feathers margined with ochraceous-buff; rump tinged with pink; wings and tail fuscous, the feathers more or less edged with whitish; middle of the throat blackish, breast suffused with pink, belly white, sides streaked with fuscous.

Ad. .-Similar, but without pink on the rump or breast, the sides more heavily streaked. Im. -Similar to the, but without a red crowncap. L., 5-32; W., 2.80; T., 2.32; B., 36; depth of B. at base, 22.