ADDITIONS SINCE 1899. 183 



form (R. J. Usslier, Birds of Ireland, p. 64; W. F. de V. Kane, 

 Irish Nat., l;:>02, p. 56). 



Linota hornemannii Holboll. 



Five specimens of tliis species were obtained on Fair Isle 

 in September and October, 1905 (W. E. Clarke, Ann. S.N.H., 

 1906, p. 17). Two are recorded in Mr. Saunders' "Manual," 

 while two more obtained at Spui'n in 1883 and 1893 are placed 

 under this species by the authors of the " Birds of Yorkshire " 

 (p. 189). 



Linota hornemannii exilipes (Coues). 



One obtained at Easingtou, Yorkshire, in the winter of 1893-4 

 and two others obtained in the same district on December 30th, 

 1898, were assisjued by Mr. Cordeaux to this form [Birds of 

 Yorkshire, Vol. I., p. 188). 



As Mr. Saunders remarks, the whole question of the Mealy 

 Redpolls is " incrusted by a voluminous literature in which 

 hardly two authors agree as regards specific value." Dr. 

 Hartert, in the latest review of the genus {Vdg. j^al. Fauna, 

 p. 77 et seq.), regards holboelUi and rostrata as subspecies of 

 L. linaria, and the other Greenland Redpoll, L. hornemannii, as 

 a separate species with the circumpolar exilipes as a subspecies 

 of it. Now that more attention is being bestowed by British 

 ornithologists on the study of geograpliical races, the occurrence 

 of these forms in the British Islands will be, no doubt, moi'e 

 often noted and our knowledge of their migrations increased. 



LESSER REDPOLL Linota rufescens (Vieillot). S. page 191. 



Somerset. — Records of its nesting in the northern parts of 

 the county on the central levels and near the south-western 

 boundary (F. L. Blathwayt, ZooL, 1902, p. 67 ; H. Meyrick, ^ c, 

 1903, p. 457). 



Sussex. — A nest and egg were taken near Midhurst, 4th May, 

 1901 (A. Byatt, Bidl. B.O.C., XII., p. 15). Young bu-ds were 

 seen being fed by their parents on August 22nd, 1907, at 

 Maresfield, and a nest like that of this species was found near 

 by (R. Morns, Zool., 1907, p. 352). A nest was found with four 

 eggs, 15th May, 1895, at Brightlmg, Sussex (N.F.T.). 



Kent. — In addition to the i-ecords mentioned supra, p. 155, 

 it was numerous and breeding near Canterbury in May, 1897 

 (N.F.T.); becoming a common breeding species in the Darenth 

 Valley, 1905 {fide J. R. Hale) ; breeds somewhat sparingly in 

 north Kent (A. G. Butler, Br. Birds' Eggs, 1886) ; nest and 

 three eggs found 8th May, 1896, at Leigh, near Tonbridge (fide 

 C. B. Ticehurst) ; has increased wonderfully during the last 



