252 fringillipj:. 



Subsp. y. Acanthis rufescens. 



The Redpolls, cock and lien, Albin, N. H. Birds, iii. p. 70, pi. 75 



(1740). 

 Le petite Linotte ou Le Cabaret, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 142 (1760). 

 ? Le Cabaret *, Daubent. PI. Enl. iv. pi. 485. fig. 2. 

 ? Fringilla cabaret, P. L. S. Mull. Syst. Nat., Anhang, p. 165 (1776) ; 



Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1864, p. 255. 

 Lesser Redpole, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 1, p. 305 (1783). 

 ? Fringilla minima, Bodd. Tail. PL Enl. p. 28 (1783). 

 Linaria rufescens, Vieill. Mem. B. Accad. Torino, xxiii. 8c. Fis. 



p. 202 (1816) ; Bou.r, Orn. Prov. pi. 100(1825) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



ii. p. 109, no. 7650 (1870) ; Fallon, Ok. Bely. p. 105, note (1875). 

 Linaria minor, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. fy B. Brit. Mus. p. 15 



(1816); Selby, Brit. B. p. 320 (1833) ; Gould, B. Eur. iii. pi. 194 



(1837); Macyill. Brit. B. i. p. 383 (1837); Thomps. B. Irel. 



p. 270 (1849). 

 Linota linaria (nee L.), Bp. Conrp. List B. Eur. Sf N. Amer. p. 34 



(1838) ; Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 514 (1843). 

 Fringilla linaria {nee L.), Schl. Rev. C'rit. p. Ixiii (1844) ; Gray, Gen. 



B. ii. p. 372 (1849) ; Hewits. Eggs Brit. B. p. 201, pi. 51. fig. 2 



(1856) ; Gray, List Brit. B. p. 98 (1863); More, Ibis, 1865, 



p. 129 ; Keulem. Onze Voyels, ii. pi. 43 (1873). 

 Acanthis linaria (nee L.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 125 (1849) ; 



Tschusi, J.f. O. 1872, p. 132. 

 Acanthis rufescens, Bp. 8; Schl. Monoyr. Loxiens, pi. 54 (1850) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 540 (1850) ; Jaub. et Barth.-Lapomm. Rich. Orn. p. 139 



(1859). 

 iEgiothus rufescens, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 161 (1850) ; Coues, 



Proc. Philad. Acad. 1861, p. 381 ; Gould, B. Gt. Br. iii. pi. 52 ; 



Giglioli, Ibis, 1881, p. 203; id. Avif. Ital. p. 37 (1886); Salvad. 



Elench. Ucc. Ital. p. 178 (1887). 

 Linacanthis rufescens, Des Murs, Encycl. d'Hist. Nat. r. p. 304 (1855- 



58, teste Degl. fy Gvrbe). 

 Linota rufescens, Drake, Ibis, 1867, p. 427 ; Sorting, Handb. Brit. 



B. p. 28 (1872); Irby, Ibis, 1873, p. 97; id. B. Gibr. p. 121 



(1875); Neivton, ed. Yarr. Brit. B. ii. p. 146 (1876) ; Dresser, B. 



Eur. iv. p. 47, pi. 188 (1877) ; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 206 



(1882) ; B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 54 (1882). 

 Linaria minima, Doderl. Avif. Sicil. p. 85 (1869). 

 iEgiothus cabaret, Salvad. Faun. Ital., Ucc. p. 157 (1871). 

 Fringilla rufescens, Tschusi, J. f. O. 1876, p. 331 ; Seebohm, Hist. 



Brit. B. ii. p. 116 (1884). 

 Acanthis linaria cabaret, Stejneyer, Auk, i. p. 153 (1884). 

 Acanthis cabaret, Stejneyer, Auk, iv. p. 144 (1887). 



Adult male. Similar to A. linaria, but smaller, and of a more 

 reddish colour, the lower back witb only a slight admixture of 

 ■white ; bill yellow, with the tip blackish ; legs and feet blackish ; 

 iris brown. Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-135, wing 2-7, tail 

 1*95, tarsus - 55. 



* This figure is unhesitatingly accepted by most ornithologists as referring to 

 the Lesser Redpoll, but it may have been taken from a Me;dy Redpoll ; and it 

 would be unwise to revive such a specific name as cabaret to replace the better- 

 known one of rufescens, when such a change depends on no better foundation 

 than Daubenton's unsatisfactory figure. 



