54 FRINGILLID.E. 



breeding chiefly in the birch-region, and straying southwards 

 in winter. 



Linota rufescens. LESSER REDPOLL. 



Linaria rufescens, Vieillot, Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. xxiii. 



p. 202 (1816). 



Linaria minor, Macg. i. p. 383. 

 Fringilla linaria, Hewitson, p. 201 ; Gray, p. 98. 

 Linota linaria, Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 562; id. ed. 3, i. p. 589. 

 Linota rufescens, Newton, ii. p. 146 ; Harting, p. 28 ; Dresser, 



iv. p. 47. 



-ZEgiothus rufescens, Gould, iii. pi. 52. 

 Lesser Redpole, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 514. 



Rufescens = becoming red, reddish ; from rufus = red. 



Resident in ScotlandAnd the north of England; a winter 

 visitant to the south, wfiere, however, individuals often remain 

 to breed. A winter visitant to France and the Netherlands. 



Linota hornemanni, GREENLAND REDPOLL. 



Linota hornemanni, Holboll, Naturh. Tidssk. iv. p. 398 



(1843). 



Linota hornemanni, Newton, ii. pp. 141, 143; Dresser, iv. 

 p. 55. 



Named in honour of the Danish naturalist Jens Wilken Hornemann, b. 1770, 

 d. 1841. 



One was killed in April 1855 on the sea-banks near Whit- 

 burn, Durham (Hancock, Birds of North, and Durham, p. 54, 

 pi. 5) . Common in Greenland, rare in Iceland, and acci- 

 dental in Europe. 



Linota flavirostris. TWITE. 



Fringilla fla vir ost ris, Linnaus, S.N. i. p. 322 (1766). 

 Fringilla montium, Naum. v. p. 103 ; Hewitson, p. 203. 



