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KEY AND DESCRIPTION 



Length, 6 ; wing, 3\ ; tail, 2\ ; culmen, j. Northern North America; 

 breeding from northern New England northward, and wintering south in 

 the United States to Pennsylvania. 



G. Hoary Redpoll (527*. Acdnthis homemdnnil exllipes). — 

 A bird similar to the next, but differing in having the rump 

 nearly white (pinkish white in the male), without streaks, the 

 feathers of back and wiugs with whitish edges, and the belly 

 wliite without streaks. 



Length, o; wing, 3 (2'-31) ; tail, 2\; tarsus, \ ; culmen, ,^. Arctic 

 America and northern Asia ; rarely wintering as far south as the northern 

 United States. 



7. Redpoll (528. Ai-dnthis h'ii<)rin\ 



Redpoll 



-A small, winter, red- 

 capped, black-chinned, 

 streaky, brownish spar- 

 row with (in the male) 

 pink washings on the 

 rump and breast. The 

 ver}^ yoinuj lack the red 

 cap. This bird comes 

 into the northern 

 United States rather 

 irregularly in flocks, 

 in the winter, and is 

 usually found seari-h- 



ing fur seeds on the grasses and low weeds which project above 

 the snow in pastures. (Redpoll Linnet.) 



Length, 5; wing 2^ (2^-3) ; tail, 2^ ; tarsus, \ ; culmen, /,;. North- 

 em portions of tlie northern liemisjihere ; breeding north of the United 

 States, and wintering very irregularly .south to Virginia and Kansas. 

 Holboll's Redpoll (528». A. I. hnHxeUii) is a larger bird with a longer 

 bill ; it has been once recorded froin tlie United States (Ma.ssachu.setts"). 

 Wing, 3-3', ; culmen, fully J. Greater Redpoll (528''. .1. /. rostrala) is 

 a larger bird with darker feathers on the back. This bird has been seen 

 irregularly as far south as southern New York and northern Illinois. 

 Wing, 3-3i; ; tail. 2; ; tarsus, nearly | ; culmen, J. 



8. American Goldfinch (529. Sp))ii(fi trfstis). — A very common, 

 small, yellow-bodied bird with black cap, wings, and tail. It 



