BIRDS — FEINGILLIDAE — AEGIOTHUS CANESCENS. 



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Sp. Ch. — Above light yellowish, each feather streaked with dark brown. Crown dark crimson. Upper part of breast and 

 sides of the body tinged with a lighter tint of the same ; the rump and under tail coverts also, similar, but still I>>ss vivid, and 

 with dusky streaks. Rest of under parts white, streaked on the sides with brown. Loral region and chin dusky; cheeks, 

 (brightest over the eye,) and a narrow front, whitish. Wing feathers edged externally, and tail feathers all round with, white. 

 Two yellowish white bands across the wing coverts; secondaries and tertiaries edged broadly with the same. Bill yellowish, 

 tinged with brown on the culmen and gonys ; the basal bristles brown, reaching over half the bill. Length, 5 50; wing, 3.10 ; 

 tail, 2.70. 



Hub. — Throughout eastern North America, coming south in winter. Washington Territory. — (Cooper.) 



The specimen described above is a male, (900) in winter dress. The spring plumage has much 

 more of the red. The female winter specimens lack the rose of the under parts and rump ; the 

 breast is streaked across with dusky. 



I have not met with any specimens apparently indicative of more than one North American 

 species, although the A. canescens, of Greenland, may possibly be found within our limits. This 

 is much larger, has the tail 3^ inches long instead of 2i ; the rump never with dusky streaks. 



The A. rufescens, of Europe differs in the smaller size, the tail scarcely two inches long, the 

 rump tinged with rufous. The A. holbolli, of Europe, has a very large yellow bill, a large 

 gular patch and the lores, black. 



List of specimens. 



AEGIOTHUS CANESCENS, Cabanis. 



Mealy Red Poll. 



Ltnaria canescens , Gould, " Birds Europe, Tab. 193." 



Linola canescens, Bokap. List, 1838. 



Jlcanlhis canescens , Bon Conspectus, 1850, 541. — Bon. & Schlegel, Mon. Loxiens, Tab. li. 



Jlegiolhus canescens, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1851, 161. 



"fring^iHtt i)orea(is, Temminck, 1835. Not of Vieillot." Bonaparte. 



iFringilla borealis, Ano. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 87 ; pi. 400. 



?Linariaborealis, AuD. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 120 ; pi. 178. 



"Linaria hornemanni, Holeoll, Kroyer Nat. Tidskr. 1843." 



Sp. Ch. — Size large. Bill short. Claws elongated. Rump white, (in the spring male tinged with rose,) never streaked ; the 

 quills broadly margined with white. Tail lengthened. Length, G inches ; tail, 3.17. 

 Hab. — Greenland. 



The preceding description, taken chiefly from Bonaparte, is of a species which doubtless occurs 

 in the northern portion of our continent, and is introduced for the purpose of completing the 



