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character, especially as some birds regularly migrate southward in winter. 

 Witherby, who has shot both forms in the same little company, is disposed 

 to consider the variation individual. Intermediate forms also occur; and 

 without further investigation no distinctive characters can be given with 

 regard to breeding habits or eggs, but so far the larger biUed and longer 

 winged birds have only been found within the most northerly limits of 

 the range of this species in both the Old and New Worlds.) 



c. Greater Redpoll, C. flammea rostrata (Coues). 



A. flammea rosfratus (Coues). Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 80. 



Breeding Range: Southern Greenland. (Has occurred at Barra, W. Scot- 

 land {Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1901, p. 131) and Ireland {Birds of Ireland, p. 64). 

 Eggs said to be larger than those of the typical race. 



d. Lesser Redpoll, C. flammea cabaret (P. L. S. MiilL). 



Plate 38, fig. 11 (Scotland); 26, fig. 4, 5 (Derbyshire, VI. 04). 



Eggs: Hewitson, I. Ed. I, pi. XCVI, fig. 4; H. Ed. I, pi. XLV, fig. 2; 

 III. Ed. I, pi. LI, fig. 2. Seebohm, Brit. Birds, pi. 12; id. Col. Fig., pi. 57. 

 Frohawk, Br. Birds, pi. V, fig. 168—171. 



British Local Names: Chevy, Chacldy, Orey Boh, French Orey, 

 Banty Hemplin, Red Linnet. Welsh: Llinos hengoch. Scotland: Divarf Lintie. 



Foreign Names: France: Sizerin cabaret. Holland: Klein Barmsijsje. 

 Italy: Organetto. Switzerland (German): Sudlicher Leinfink. Spain: Volicelo. 



Linota rufescens (Vieill.). Dresser, Birds of Europe, IV, p. 47: 

 Newton, ed. Yarrell, 11, p. 146; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds^ p. 316. Acanthis 

 rufescens (Vieill.). Saunders, Man., p. 191. A. flammea cabaret (P.L. S. Miill.). 

 Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 80. 



Breeding Range: The British Isles and the whole Alpine district, 

 probably also in the Carpathians. Redpolls (? C. f. cabaret) are also resident 

 in the Balkans and Caucasus. 



In England this bird is commonest in the counties north of about British 

 52° 30', though everywhere rather local. In the south midland and south i^^^^- 

 eastern counties it breeds sporadically in small numbers, but is decidedly 

 scarce along the south coast and practically absent from the Devonian peninsula, 

 though recorded as breeding in Somerset and Dorset. In Wales it is fairly 

 common in the valleys, especially in some parts of the north (e. g. S. Denbigh), 

 but is found also locally in the south, in Pembroke, Cardigan, Brecon, etc. 

 In Scotland it is a local resident or summer visitor in many of the wooded 

 straths of the mainland, and is known to nest in the Orkneys and some 

 of the Inner Hebrides as well as on Barra. In Ireland it is common and 

 widely distributed, nesting in every county except Kerry and on Aranmore 

 Island (Co. Donegal). 



