BIRDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 25 I 



211 [527a] Acanthis hornemannii exilipes (Coues). 

 Hoary Redpoll. 



Very rare winter visitor. 



There is only one record for this bird : a male taken at Swampscott, on 

 November 16th, 1878, by Mr. W. A. Jeffries. 1 



212 [528] Acanthis linaria (Linn.1. 

 Redpoll. 



Irregular and at times abundant winter visitor ; November 9 to April 25. 



I have records of its occurrence in 1859-60, 1866-67, 1868-69, '874, 1878, 

 1883, 1888, 1899-1900. 



213 [528a] Acanthis linaria holbcellii (Brehm). 

 Holbcell's Redpoll. 



Very rare winter visitor. 



Two were shot at Swampscott on March 26th, 1883, by Mr. William Brew- 

 ster, 2 and are now in his collection. He states that he knows of only one other 

 Massachusetts specimen, a bird shot in Lexington, March 10th, 1890, by Mr. 

 Walter Faxon. 



214 [528b] Acanthis linaria rostrata (Coues). 

 Greater Redpoll. 



Irregular and at times common winter visitor. 



I shot two Redpolls from a flock of eight or ten, feeding on weed seeds in 



1 W. A. Jeffries: Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, vol. 4, p. 121, 1879. 



2 Wm. Brewster, ed. : Minot's Land-birds and Game-birds of New England, p. 472, 1895. 



