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mucli greater size, its very different notes, and its quite different modes of 

 life, the canesccns being a strictly resident species, and the linarius being 

 migratory. 



In the summer this species is found to the extreme north of Greenland, 

 and has never been known to nest i'arther south than the G9th parallel. It 

 is more numerous in North Greenland than the linarias, which is rare at the 

 extreme north, while this is very common even at latitude 73°. This bird 

 builds its nests in bushes in the same manner with linarius, and its eggs 

 closely resemble those of that bird. Its notes, he adds, do not at all re- 

 semble those of the Ked-Poll, but are like those of the Amj^elis garrulus. 



It is a resident of Greenland throughout the year, and in the winter keeps 

 on the mountains in the interior, but is much more numerous at latitude &Q° 

 than farther south. In February, 1826, Holboll saw many flocks on the 

 mountains between Iiitenbank and Omanak, and in the journey taken in 

 1880 by a merchant from Holsteinborg into the interior of the country a 

 great many flocks were observed. They are also freipiently met with by 

 reindeer-hunters, who go far into the interior. It is rarely ibund in Soutli 

 Greenland at any time, and never in the summer. In mild winters they 

 sometimes come about the settlements, as happened in the winter of 1828-29, 

 and again in 18.37- 38. In the intervening winters it was not seen at God- 

 haab, and in severe winters it is never to be found near the coast, only single 

 specimens occurring there in spring and autumn. 



Mr. jMacFarlane thinks this species spends the winter" at Fort Anderson, as 

 he has met with it as late as December and as early as February, and believes 

 it to have been present in the vicinity in the interval. It nests in May. 

 ]\Ir. Harriott found one of its nests on the branch of a tree, about fi^■e feet 

 from the ground. It contained five eggs. 



The egg of this species resembles that of the linarius except in size and its 

 liiihter oround-color. The OTOund is a bluish or greenish white, dotted with 

 a lawny-brown. The egg is of a more oval shape, and measures .75 by .60 

 of an inch. 



-aSgiothus flavirostris,' var. brewsteri, Fiidgway. 



BREWSTER'S LINNET. 



Sp. Char. General appearance somewhat that of yS. Unarias, but no red on the crown, 

 uml the sides and rump tinged with sulphur-j'ellow ; no black gular spot. 9 '^'^- Ground- 

 color above light umber, becoming sulphur-3'ellow on the rump, each feather, even on the 

 crown, with a distinct medial streak of dusky. Beneath white, tinged with fulvous-yel- 

 low anteriorly and along tlie sides ; sides and crissuin streaked Avith dusky. "Wings and 

 tail dusky ; the former with two pale fulvous bands ; the secondaries, primaries, and tail- 



1 Fringilla linaria, Temm. i\Iass. Oni. 1835, 267 (not of Linnpeus). " Fringilla rufescens, 

 ViEiLL. Faun. Frantj. tab. 41, f. 1." Linota montiiim, Bp. & Schlf.gel, Mon. Lox. 1850. "Li- 

 naria flavirostris, Brehm." 



