FRINGILLID^ — THE FINCHES. 493 



A. Crown with a quadrate patch of crimson, in adult ; throat and chin with 

 a dusky spot ; quills and tail-feathers not edged conspicuously with white. 

 ^ witli the breast tin<;-ed with red. 



1. A. canescens. Rump unstreaked wliite (both sexes, at all sea- 

 sons) ; the lower tail-coverts with white shafts ; the red tinge on the 

 breast in the ^J, of a delicate pale rosaceous pink tint. 



Bill very short and thick, its height through the base nearly 

 equalling the length of the culmen. Wing, 3.20; tail, 2.6-5. Bill: 

 culmen, .35; height, .30. Hub. Greenland . . var. canescens 



Bill much smaller, more acute, its height through the base much 

 less than the length of the culmen. Wing, 3.00 ; tail, 2.50. Bill : 

 culmen, .30 ; height, .22. Hah. Continental arctic America 



var. exilipec. 



2. A. linarius. Rump always streaked ; lower tail-coverts with dusky 

 shaft-streaks ; the red tinge on the breast of the (^ of a rosaceous- 

 carmine tint. 



Bill about .35 in length by ,22 in height ; wing, 2.80 ; tail, 

 2.40. Hab. Continental arctic and cold temperate North America 



var. linarius. 

 Bill about .40, or more, in length, by .30 in height ; wing, 3.20 ; 

 tail, 2.60. Hah. Greenland in summer, and Continental arctic and 

 cold temperate North America in winter . . . var. holholli. 

 B« Crown without any red'; throat and chin without any dusky spot ; quills 

 and tail-feathers of adult male edged conspicuously with white. ^ with- 

 out red tinge on the breast. 



3. A. flavirostris. Rump rose-pink in the ^, lirown streaked with 

 dusky in 9 ■ No red on crown or breast. 



9. Above umber-brown streaked with dusky; ground-color of 

 rump light brown ; throat and jugulum strongly ochraceous-bufF. 

 Hah. Europe. ....... xar. flavirostris. 



9 • Above olive-brown streaked with dusky ; ground-color of 

 rump sulplnu'-yellow ; throat and jugulum faintly sulphur-yellow, 

 tinged with buff. Hah. North America . . . \'2iT. bre w ste7'i. 



^giothus linarius, Cabanis. 



LESSER RED-POLL. 



Fringilla Unarm, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 322. — Aim. Orn. Biog. IV, 1838, 538, pt. 

 ccclxxv. Fringilla (Jcanthis) linaria, Keys. & Blas. Wirb. Europ. 1840, No. 115, 

 page 161. — Acanthis linaria, Br. Conspectus, 1850, 541. ^giothus linaria, Cabanis, 

 Mus. Hein. 1851, 161. — Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 428. — Coues, Pr. A. N. S. Nov. 

 1861, 382. —Cooper & Suckley, 198. — Samuels, 294. — Maynard, B. E. Mass. 

 1870, 110. —Ball & Bannister, Tr. Chic. Acad. I, 1869, 281. — Cooper, Orn. Cal. 

 I, 159. Linaria minor, Sw. F. Bor. Am. H, 1831, 267. — AuD. Syu. 1839, 114. 

 — Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 122, pi. clxxix. 1 Linaria holholli, Brehm, Vbgel Deutsch- 

 lands. Acantliis holbolli, Bp. & Schleoel, Mon. Loxiens, 1850, 50, pi. liii. ^■Effiof/ins 

 holbolli, Coues, Pr. A. N. Sc. 1861, 385. Linaria americana, Max. Cab. Jourii. VI, 

 1858, 338. jEgiothusfitscescens, Coues, P. A. N. S. Aug. 1861, 222 (Labi'ador ; breed- 

 ing dress). — Ib. p. 380. ^giothus rostratus, Elliot, Illust. B. Am. I, pi. ix. — 

 Coues, P. A. N. S. Nov. 1861, 378 (Greenland). — Elliot, Illust. Birds N. A. I, 

 pi. X. 



