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Linaria horncmanrii IIo.meyer, Jouni. fiir Orn., xxxiii, April, 1879, 182 (erit. ). 



F.lrinr/illa] liornemannl Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 372. 



Frinffilla hornemnnni Seebob.-},!, Hist. Brit. Birds, ii, 1884, 117. 



jEgiothus hornemanm CouES, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 209. 



^.[giothus] hornemanni Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 353. 



Acanthis hornemanni Dresser, Birds Europe, iv, 1871-1881, 55 (descr. eggs). — 



Turner, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 239 (Fort Chimo, Ungava, Sept. 



1 to May 15). 

 Acanthis hornemannii Stejneger, Auk, i, April, 1884, 152. — American Ornitholo- 



Gisrs' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 527.— (?)Clarke, Auk, vii, 1890, 322 



(Ft. Churchill, Hudson Bay).— McIlwraith, Birds Ontario, 1892, 300 (Gait, 



Ontario, small flock). 

 A. [canfJtis'] hornemannii Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 396. 

 [Acanthis ex iUpes.'l Subsp. a. Acanthis hornemanni SnxnPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 



xii, 1888, 256. 

 Acanthis canescens (not Linaria canescens Gould) Bonaparte and Schlegel, Mon. 



des Loxiens, 1850, 47, pi. 51. 

 [Acanthisl canescens Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 541 (Greenland). 

 A. legiothusl canescens Cabasis, Mus. Hein.,i, Aug., 1851, 161 (Greenland). 

 Aegiothus canescens Baird, Rep. Paeitic R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 429 (excl. syn. part) ; 



Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 321. — Finsch, Zweite Deutsche Nordpolfahrt, ii, 



1874, 188, part (e. Greenland; crit.) . 

 Ji^giothus canescens Coves, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861,388 (monogr.). — Baird, 



Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 498, part. ^Ridgway, 



Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 178. 

 [^Eglothus canescens'] var. canescens Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's 



Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 493. 

 FringiUa canescens HEisuARTtT, Ibis, 1861, 7 (Greenland; resident). 

 Linota CO (If srf».s Newton, Man. Nat. Hist. Greenland, 1875, 99 (Franz- Josef's Fjord, 



Greenland; breeding n. of lat. 70°). 

 Acanthis hornemanni typica Brewster, Auk, iv, April, 1887, 164, in text. 

 Linota linaria {not Fnngilla linaria Linnaeus) Newton, in Baring Gould's Ice- 

 land, 1863, 409, part. 

 F. [ringiUa'] linaria (not of Linna?us) Newton, I])is, 1865, 502, in text (Spitz- 



bergen ) . 

 Acgintlms linarins FiSiAcn, Abh. Nat. Brem., 1874, 104, part (s. w. Greenland; crit.). 



ACANTHIS HORNEMANNII EXILIPES (Coues). 

 HOARY REDPOLL. 



Similar in coloration to ^i. h. hornemannii, but veiy much smaller and 

 averaging somewhat darker; rump less extensivel}' white; sides, flanks, 

 and under tail-coverts more frequently streaked with dusky, and pink 

 of chest and rump in adult male averaging decidedh' deeper, that of 

 the chest also usuall}" more extended. (Sexual and seasonal differences 

 exactly the same as in A. A. horitenuinnii.) 



Adult wffZ^.— Length (skins), 116.59-13T.16 (12(5.49); wing, 72.39- 

 77.98 (75.18); tail, 54.10-03.50 (57.40); exposed culmen, 6.8(3-8.64 

 (7.87); depth of biU at base, 5.84-6.86 (6.35); tarsus, 13.46-15.24 

 (14.48); middle toe, 7.11-8.38 (7.87).^ 



^ Thirt j'-oue si3ecimens. 



