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much greater size, its very different notes, and its (jnite different modes of • 

 lite, the cuncsccns being a strictly resident species, and the li/uirius being 

 migratory. 



In the summer tliis species is found to the extreme north of Greenland, 

 and has never been known to nest farther south than tlie 6yth parallel. It 

 is more numerous in North Greenland than the Imarius, which is rare at the 

 extreme north, while this is very conimou even at latitude 73°. This bird 

 builds its nests in bushes in tlie same manner with Unarms, and its eggs 

 closely resemble those of that bird. Its notes, he adds, do not at all re- 

 semble those of the Eed-Poll, Ijut are like those of the Ampelis gnrmliis. 



It is a resident of Greenland tlirougliout tlie year, and in the winter keeps 

 on tlie mountains in the interior, but is much more uumenius at latitude 66° 

 tiian farther south. In Feljruary, 1826, HolboU saw many flocks on the 

 mountains lietween Iiitenbank and Onianak, and in the jouniey taken in 

 IS.SO by a merchant from Holsteinborg into the interior of the country a 

 great many flocks were observed. They are also frequently met with by 

 reindeer-hunters, who go far into the interior. It is rarely found in South 

 Greenland at any time, and never in the summer. In mild winters they 

 sometimes come about the settlements, as happened in the winter of 1828—29, 

 and again in 1837- 38. lu the intervening winters it was not seen at God- 

 haab, and in se\-ere winters it is never to be found near the coast, only single 

 specimens occurring tliere in spring and autumn. 



]\Ir. MacFarlane thinks this species spends the winter at Fort Anderson, as 

 he has met with it as late as December and as early as February, and believes 

 it to have been present in the vicinity in the interval. It nests in ^lay. 

 Mr. Harriott found one of its nests on the branch of a tree, ;ibout fi\'e feet 

 from the ground. It contained five eggs. 



The egg of this species resembles that of the Unarms except in size and its 

 lighter ground-color. The ground is a bluish or greenish white, dotted with 

 a tawny-brown. The egg is of a more oval shape, and measures .75 by .60 

 of an inch. 



iEgiothus fiavirostris/ \ai. brewsteri, itinuwAY. 



BREWSTER'S LINNET. 



Sp. Ch.\r. General appearance somewhat that of^E. liimnus, bnt no red on the crown, 

 and the sides and rump tinged with sulphur-yellow ; no black gular spot. 9 "<^ Ground- 

 color above light uml)er, becoming sulphur-yellow on the rump, each feather, even on the 

 crown, witli a di.^tinct medial streak of duslcy. Beneath white, tinged witli fulvous-yel- 

 low anteriorly and along the sides ; sides and crissum streaked witli dusky. Wings and 

 tail dusky ; the former with two pale fulvous bands ; the secondaries, primaries, and tail- 



1 Frinqilhr Uwirki, Temm. Mass. Orn. 1835, 267 (not of Linnaeus). " Fringilla ntfesce-ns, 

 ViEiLL. Faun. Franc;, tab. 41, f. 1." Linota monlium, Bp. & Schlegel, Mou. Lox. 1850. "Li- 



nariii flavirostris, Buehm." 



