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Genus ACANTHIS Borkhausen. 



Acanthis Borkhausen, Deutsche Fauna, 1797, 248. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Fringilla linaria Linnaeus (A. O. U. Comm., Check-List (3rd. 

 ed.), 1910). 



Acanthis homemannihomemanni (Hole oell). Homemann's Redpoll. [527.] 



Linota hornemanni Holboell, Naturh. Tidsskr., IV, 1843, 398. (North 

 Greenland, above Lat. 69° N. in summer.) 



Range. — Breeds in Greenland north to lat. 70°, and in Iceland. Winters in 

 its breeding area and southward to Ungava. Casual at Fort Churchill, Hudson 

 Bay, and Gait, Ontario; accidental in England and France. 



Acanthis hornemanni exilipes (Coues). Hoary Redpoll. [.527«.] 



Aegiothus exilipes Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., [XIII] 1861, 

 sig. 26-36, Nov.-Dec. [March 31, 1862], 385. (Fort Simpson [Macken- 

 zie].) 



Range. — Breeds from western Alaska to Ungava, and on the Chukches 

 Peninsula, northeastern Siberia. Winters occasionally southward to British 

 Columbia, Montana, northern Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Ontario, Maine, 

 Massachusetts, southern New York, and Connecticut; also in Asia to the 

 Commander Islands and northern Japan. 



Acanthis linaria linaria (Linnaeus). Common Redpoll. [528.] 



Fringilla Linaria Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 182. (in Europa 

 = Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds in Boreal zones from northwestern Alaska, northern 

 Mackenzie, and northern Quebec south to northern Alberta, northern Mani- 

 toba, and islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; also through northern Europe 

 and Asia; has occurred in Michigan and western Pennsylvania in summer. 

 Winters in the northern parts of the United States, irregularly south to south- 

 eastern Oregon, northeastern California, Colorado, Kansas, Indiana, Ohio, 

 Alabama, and South Carolina; also over the greater part of Europe and south 

 to central Asia. Accidental in Bermuda. 



Acanthis linaria holboelli (Brehm). Holboell's Redpoll. [528cf.] 



Linaria Holboellii C. L. Brehm, Handbuch Naturg. VogelDeutschl., 1831, 

 280. (Middle Germany = winter migrant.) 



Range. — -Breeds on Herschel Island, Siberia. South in winter to Germany, 

 Japan, and southeastern Siberia. Occasional in winter or in migration to 

 northwestern Alaska and southeast to northern Manitoba, British Columbia, 

 Montana, Iowa, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maine, and Quebec. 



