248 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Acanthis linaria (LINNAEUS). 



RANGE. Northern part of Northern Hemisphere, south in winter 

 to middle temperate latitudes. 



a. Acanthis linaria linaria (LINNAEUS). Redpoll. [528.] 



Fringilla linaria LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 182. (Sweden.) 



RANGE. Northern parts of Northern Hemisphere. Breeds in North 

 America in Boreal zones from northwestern Alaska, northern Mackenzie, and 

 northern Ungava south to northern Alberta, central Keewatin, and islands of 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence ; winters in more northern parts of United States, irregu- 

 larly south to Lassen County, California, southeastern Oregon, Colorado, 

 Kansas, Indiana, Ohio, and Virginia; casual in Alabama and Bermuda. 



b. Acanthis linaria holbcelli (BREHM). HolbolTs RedpoU. [528a.] 



Linaria holbcellii BREHM, Handbuch Vogel Deutschl., 1831, 280. (Middle 

 Germany winter migrant.) 



RANGE. Northern parts of Northern Hemisphere. Breeds on Herschel 

 Island; south in winter to Germany, Japan, and southeastern Siberia; occa- 

 sional in migration to northwestern Alaska and southeast to Keewatin, Iowa, 

 Illinois, Massachusetts, Maine, and Quebec. 



c. Acanthis linaria rostrta (COUES). Greater Redpoll. [5286.] 



JZgiothus restrains COUES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 378. 

 (Jakobshavn, Greenland.) 



RANGE. Resident in Greenland. In winter south through Manitoba, 

 Ontario, Quebec, and Ungava to Colorado, northern Illinois, Michigan, north- 

 ern Indiana, southern New York, and Massachusetts. 



GENUS ASTRAGALINUS CABANIS. 



Astragalinus CABANIS, Mus. Hein., I, 1851, 159. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Fringilla tristis LINN^SUS (Gray, 1855). 



Astragalinus tristis (LINNAEUS). 



RANGE. North America from southern Canada south in winter 

 to the Gulf coast and Mexico. 



a. Astragalinus tristis tristis (LiNN2BUs). Goldfinch. [529.] 



Fringilla tristis LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 181. (Carolina, 

 Virginia, and New York.) 



