red-polls

Also saw again one of the strange birds – yellow red-polls – we watched near the bridge, but could not approach as near as at the first interview; he was in our own garden among the beds, apparently eating insects as well as maple blossoms.

Rural Hours 1887

There can be little doubt but the young observer had seen a pair of red-polls, -- a bird related to the goldfinch, and that occasionally comes down to us in the winter from the far north.

Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879

After the cattle have eaten, the birds -- snow buntings and red-polls -- come and pick up the crumbs, the seeds of the grasses and weeds.

In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879

Glad as we are of the society of the goldfinches and the red-polls at this time of the year, we cannot easily rid ourselves of a degree of solicitude for their comfort; especially if we chance to come upon them after sunset on some bitterly cold day, and mark with what a nervous haste they snatch here and there a seed, making the utmost of the few remaining minutes of twilight.

Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877

Many stories are told of the red-polls 'fearlessness and ready reconciliation to captivity, as well as of their constancy to each other.

Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877

The red-polls and the goldfinches often travel together, or at least are often to be found feeding in company; and as they resemble each other a good deal in size, general appearance, and ways, the casual observer is very likely not to discriminate between them.

Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877

Like the snow buntings and the red-polls, they roam over the higher latitudes of

Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877

He says that red-polls, linnets, and even canaries were kept by the boys in desks, drawers, hat-boxes, and other strange refuges for birds; but that white mice were the favorite stock, and that the boys trained the mice much better than the master trained the boys.

The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844