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Adult male In wintei'. — Similar to the spring male, but head, neck, 

 back, and scapulars more or less tinged with pale buff, the dusky streaks 

 on back, etc., narrower, white edgings of wings and tail broader, and 

 bill 3"ellowish with dusky tip. 



Adult fe)nale in spring. — Similar to the spring male, but without 

 any pink tinge on rump or chest, and usually (?) with the sides and 

 flanks (rarely under tail-coyerts also) narrowh" streaked with grayish 

 dusky. 



Adult female in winter. — Similar to the spring female, ])ut head, 

 neck, back, etc., more or less strongly tinged with buff", the dusky 

 streaks of back, etc., narrower, the white edgings of wings and tail 

 broader, and the bill yellowish with dusk}^ tip. 



[Man}' adult males are quite similar in coloration to adult females, 

 lacking an}' trace of pink on chest or rump. Younger birds, appar- 

 ently, are more strongly tinged with buff' in winter plumage. First 

 plumage not seen.] 



Adult //«/7e.— Length (skins), 135.89-151.13 (141.73); wing, 81.03- 

 90.93 (85.85); tail, 57.91-06.55 (63.25); exposed culmen, 8.6-1-10.16 

 (9.14); depth of bill at base, 7. 62-8. 38 (8.13); tarsus, 15.75-17.27 (16.51); 

 middle toe, 8.38-9.65 (9.11).^ 



Adult female.— lj(ingi\\{skms), 131.57-144.78 (137.92); wing, 80.52- 

 86.87 (82.80); tail, 58.93-68.58 (62.99); exposed culmen, 8.13-10.41 

 (8.89); depth of bill at base, 7.37-7.87 (7. 62); tarsus, 16.26-17.27 (16.51); 

 middle toe, 8.13-9.40 (8.64).' 



Resident in Greenland^ where breeding north to latitude 70-; Ice- 

 land; Spitzbergen; Jan Mayen Land. In winter southwestward to 

 Ungaya (Fort Chimo, September 1 to ^lay 15), irregularly to west 

 side of Hudson Bay (Fort Churchill), Ontario (Gait, 2 specimens, 

 January, 1860); also occurring accidentally in England (Whitburn, 1 

 specimen, April 24, 1855) and France (Abbeyille). 



Fringilla borealis (not L'niaria horealis Yieillot) Temmixck, Man. d'Orn., iii, 1835, 

 264. — Wernek, Atlas, Granivores, 1827, pi. 17. — Selys-Loxgchamps, Faune 

 Beige, 1842, 73. 



\_Linaria'\ borealis (not A'ieillot) Gray, Hand-lisit, ii, 1870, 110, im. 7653, part 

 (Greenland). 



Linota hornernarinii Holboll, Naturh. Tidsskr., iv, 1843, 398 (Greenland). — !Sal- 

 viN, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 206. 



Linota hornemanni Newton, ed. Yarrell's Hist. Brit. Birds, ii, 1876-82, 143, 144, in 

 text. — Dresser, Birds Europe, pts. 55, 56, 1876 (p. 55), part, pi. 189, tig. 2, pi. 

 190, upper fig. (Greenland, Iceland, Spitzbergen, Whitburn, England, 1 .spec. 

 Apr. 24, 1855; Abbeville, France, 1 spec). — British Ornithologists' Union, 

 List Brit. Birds, 1883, 54.— Brooks, Ibis, 1883, 383, 384 (Gait, Ontario, 2 speci- 

 mens Jan., 1860; crit. ). — Clarke, Zoologist, 1890, 9 (Jan Mayen Land; 

 Iceland; see Fischer and Pelzeln, Arzt. osterreich. Exp. Jan Mayen, 1886, — ). 



[Linaria'] hornemanni Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 110, no. 7654 (excl. syn. rostra- 

 tus Coues). 



^ Thirteen specimens. ^ Twelve specimens. 



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