18 BIEDS OF ICELAND 



birds, pure and unspotted. In L. linaria, L, hollhoclli 

 (a large Asiatic form of the former), and L. rufescens 

 (our English Lesser Eedpoll), the white rump is 

 streaked longitudinally with brown. The total length 

 of L. horneinaniii is 5 J inches ; L. linaria seldom 

 reaches 5 inches. The wing, measured when closed, 

 from the 'shoulder' to the tip in a straight line, is, 

 in L. hornemanni, from 3|^ to nearly Zh inches; in 

 L. linaria, from 2f to barely 3 inches. The male 

 Grreenland Eedpoll wears very little indeed of the 

 rosy colour on the breast, none on the rump, usually 

 only on the crown. Shortly, the Greenland Eedpoll 

 is a large form of Eedpoll, almost as large as a Linnet 

 (Z. cannaUna), with unspotted rump, and, in the male, 

 little or no rose colour, except on the crown of the head. 

 There are two examples of L. cannahina (Linn.), the 

 Common Linnet, in the museum at Eeykjavik. One is 

 labelled ' Au(5nutitlingur ' by mistake, and one bears 

 its proper name. There is no reason to suppose that 

 this bird has ever occurred in Iceland in the wild state. 



Plectrophenax nivalis (Linn.). 

 Snow-bunting. 



Native names: ' Snjotitlingur,' ' Solskrikja ' (the first, 

 meaning the bird which twitters in the snow; 

 the second, that which screams in the sunshine). 

 Professor Newton adds ' titlings blike ' for the 

 male; but I have never heard it, and Grondal 

 omits it. 



