326 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Acanthis linaria rostrata (CouEs). Greater Redpoll. [5285.] 



Aegiothus rosiratus Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., [XIII] ISBl, 

 sig. 26-36, Nov.-Dec. [March 31, 1862], .378. (Jakobshavn, Green- 

 land.) 



Range. — Resident in Greenland. Irregularly in winter south through 

 Manitoba, Ontario, Quel)ec, and Ungava to Montana, Colorado, northern 

 Illinois, Michigan, northern Indiana, southern New York, Massachusetts, and 

 Connecticut. 



[Additional races occur in the mountains of middle and western Europe.] 



Genus SPINUS Koch. 



Spinus Koch, Syst. Baier. Zool., 1816, 233. Type, by tautonymy, Frin- 

 gilla spinus Linnaeus. 



Spinus pinus pinus (Wilson). Northern Pine Siskin. [533.] 



Fringilla pinus Wilson, Amer. Orn., II, 1810, 133 (pi. 17, fig. 1). (Bush 

 hill in the neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pa.) 



Range. — Breeds mainly in the Canadian Zone from central Alaska, southern 

 Mackenzie, central Manitoba, and central Quebec south through the higher 

 mountains of western United States to southern California and southern New 

 Mexico; also to southeastern Nebraska, northern Minnesota, northern Michi- 

 gan, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, northern Maine, northern New Hampshire, 

 northwestern Pennsylvania, and the mountains of North Carolina; casually in 

 the lower Hudson Valley and in Massachusetts. Occurs in winter over most 

 of the United States south to southern Florida and northern Mexico. 



Spinus pinus macropterus (Du Bus). Mexican Pine Siskin. [533a.] 



Carduelis macroptera Du Bus, Esquisses Orn., 1849, pi. 23. (Guatemala, 

 Mexico = Mexico.) 



Range. — -Higher mountains of southern Mexico in the states of Vera Cruz, 

 Puebla, Mexico, Zacatecas, and Michoacan; also in the Sierra San Pedro 

 Mdrtir and Sierra Judrez, Lower California. 



Spinus tristis tristis (Linnaeus). Eastern Goldfinch. [529.] 



Fringilla tristis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 181. Based on 

 The American Goldfinch, Carduelis americanus Catesby, Carolina, I, 

 43. (in America septentrionali = South Carolina.) 



Range. — ^Breeds from southern Manitoba, southern Quebec, and New- 

 foundland south to eastern Colorado, southern Oklahoma, central Arkansas, 

 northern Alabama, and northern Georgia. Winters over most of its breeding 

 area and southward to the Gulf coast, 



