114 ^GIOTHUS LINARIA, RED-POLL LINNET 



LoDgspnrs. Duriuj? sunimer there is no ash whatever on the head ; 

 hat iu some thirty or forty specimens killed during the past week (De- 

 cember) the ash is present in every one. In three or four this color ex- 

 tends below the eyes and over the cheeks : and in two it embraces the 

 throat. Bill, black in summer, yellow in winter with a black tip." 

 Mr. Dall has given us an interesting note upon var. f/rifieinncha : 

 "This species abounds on the Prybilov and Aleutian Islands. A 

 number of specimens were obtained on St. George's in August, although 

 they were moulting at the time. * * * * This beautiful bird had 

 no song at that season except a clear chirp, sounding like '-iveet-a-weet-a- 

 ivee-iceet.'' It was on the wing a great part of the time, avoiding alight- 

 ing on the ground, but darting rapidl}" iu a series of ascending and de- 

 scending curves, now swinging on the broad top of an umbelliferous 

 plant, and now alighting on some ledge of the i)erpendicular bluft', 

 juuii)ing from point to point, and seemingly delighting in testing its own 

 agility. Their nest is a simple hollow on one of these ledges, provided 

 with a few straws or bits of moss. They lay four white eggs in May 

 (0.97 by 0.67). In August the young were fully Hedged. They are 

 granivorous, apparently, but I found two or three small beetles in the 

 crop of one which I skinned." 



The same author's later article, above quoted, is as follows: "This is 

 one of the most abundant small birds of the [Aleutian] islands, and is 

 especially common at Oonalashka, where it is resident. On the 24th of 

 May we found a nest situated in a crevice of a rocky bank on the shore 

 of Captain's Harbor, Oonalashka. It was of grass, very neatly sewed 

 together, and lined with line grass and a few feathers. It contained five 

 white eggs in a fresh condition, and was about twelve feet above the 

 beach. The bird was most common on the grassy banks and rocky 

 bluffs near the shore ; I do not remember ever having seen one on the 

 higher hills or mountains. It is usually found singly or in pairs." 



^GIOTHUS LIXARIA, (Linn.) Cab. 



Reel-poll Linnet. 



Fringilla Unaria, Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 1766, 322.— Gm., Syst. Nat. i, 1788, 917.— Wils., Am. 

 Oru. iv, 41, pi. 30, f. 4 ; ix, 126.— Temm., Man. Orn. 1820. 373 {nee 1835).— Bp., 

 Syn. 1828, 112.— Nutt., Man. i, 1832, 512.— Aud., Oru. Biog. iv, 1838, 533, pi. 375. 



FrivfjilJa (AcantJns) Unaria, Keys. & Blas., Wirbel. Europ. 1840, 161. 



Fasacr Unaria, Pall., Zoog. R.-A. ii, 1811, 25. 



Spinas ruiariits, Koch, Syst. Zool. 233. 



Linofa Unaria, Bp., List,' 1838, 34.— HoLBOiiLL, Fu. Groen. 1846, 29? 



Acanihis Unaria, Bp., Consp. i, 1850, 541.— Bp. & Sen., Mou. Lox. 48, pi. 52. 



JEgiothiis Unarins, Cab., Mus. Heiu. 1851, 161.— Bd., B. N. A. 1858. 428.— CouES, Pr. Phila. 

 Acad. 1861, 382.— Dall & Bank., Tr. Chic. Acad, i, 1869, 281 (Alaska).— Coop., 

 B. Cal. 1870, 159.— CoUES, Key, 1872, 130, pi. 3, figs. 1, 2, 4, 5.— Mayn., Guide, 

 1870, 110.— Stev., U. S. Geol. Surv. Ter. 1870, 464.— B. B. & R., N. A. B. i, 1874, 

 493, pi. 22, f. 3, 5 ; and of most late writers. 



Linaria minor, Sw. & Rich., F. B. A. ii, 1831, 267.— Aud., Syu. 1839, 114; B. Am. iii, 

 1841, 122, pi. 179.— GiR., B. L. L 1844, 116.— Trippe, Pr. Ess. lust, vi, 1871, 116 

 (Miuuesota). 



FrinfjiUu horcalis, Vieill., Nouv. Diet, xxi, 341 ; nee Tenim. 



Linaria americana, Maxim., J. f. 0. vi, 1858, 338. 



JLcjioihu^ fnsccsccns, CouES, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1861, 222 (Labrador); 1861, 380; 1869, 

 186. — Elliot, B. N. A. pi. 10. (Midsummer plumage.) 



jFgiothus Unaria var. fusccscens, CouES, Key, 1872, 131, pi. 3, f. 3. 



Hab. — The typical form in North America, from Atlantic to Pacific, ranging irregu- 

 larly southward, iu flocks, iu winter, to the Jliddlo States (sometimes a little boyoud) 

 aud coriespoading latitudes in the West. No late record, of breediug in the United 

 States. ("Breeds iu Maine, Nova Scotia," »&c., Auduion.) 



Not obtaiued by the earlier Expeditious. 



Later Fjcpeditions. — 60977-88, various Wyoming localities. 



