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Genus ACANTHIS BeEcustTein. 
Acanthis Becust. Orn. Tasch. Deutschl. 1803, 125. Type, 
Fringilla linaria LINN. 
527. Acanthis hornemannii (Ho s.). 
Greenland Redpoll. 
Linota hornemannit HOLBGOLL, Naturh. Tidskr. IV. 1843, 398. 
Acanthis hornemannit SvEjN. Auk, I. April, 1884, 152. 
[B 321, C—, R 178, C 209.] 
Geroc. Dist.— Greenland and eastern Arctic America. 
527 a. Acanthis hornemannii exilipes (Covss). 
Hoary Redpoll. 
tigiothus exilipes COUES, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 385. 
Acanthis hornemannit exilipes STEJN. Auk, I. April, 1884, 152. 
[B—, C 1464, R 178a, C 210.] 
Groc. Dist.— Arctic America and northeastern Asia, south in 
winter (rarely?) to the northern border of the United States. 
528. Acanthis linaria (Linw.). 
Redpoll. 
fringilla linaria LINN. S.N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 182. 
Acanthis linaria Bonap. & SCHLEG. Mon. Lox. 1850, 48. 
[Big2i0, C r46, 1462; Ri 279, C.207.| 
Geoc. Dist.— Northern portions of northern hemisphere, south 
irregularly in winter, in North America, to the middle United States 
(Virginia, Kansas, southeastern Oregon). 
528 a. Acanthis linaria holbcellii (BReum). 
Holboll’s Redpoll. 
Linaria holbellii BREHM. Handb. Vog. Deutschl. 1831, 280. 
Acanthis linaria B. holbellii DuBois, Consp. Av. Europ. 1871, 18. 
[B—, C—, R 1792, part, C 208, part.] 
Geroc. Dist.— Northern portions of northern hemisphere, near the 
seacoast, south in winter to northern New York and Massachusetts. 
