CLASSIFIED NOTES 467 



HORNEMANNS REDPOLL [Linutu l,<,,-nt //;?/, li homemdnnii HolbollJ. 



1. Description. Resembles Coues' redpoll in having the uniform white rump of that species, 

 Inn it is considerably larger. The white rump distinguishes it from any form of mealy-redpoll. 

 Sexes alike, except that the female lacks the rose-red colour on the chest. Length 5 in. [140 

 mm.]. Forehead and top of the head deep crimson-red ; the hind-neck, sides of the neck, mantle, 

 and upper back white, suffused with light bull' and mesially streaked with black; rump uniform 

 pure white, tinged with rose-colour: upper tail-coverts white centred with brownish black; 

 the wings and tail greyish brown, margined on the outer webs with white; greater and 



i wing- and secondary-coverts broadly tipped with white, forming two bars across the wings ; 

 <-hiu black, throat buff, remainder of the under parts white. There is but little difference in the 

 summer and winter plumage, the development of the rosy breast being less pronounced than 

 in any of the other races of redpolls. [w. r. i>. and T. w.) 



2. Distribution. Breeds in Greenland up to 73 N. Has occurred, probably only as an 

 occasional wanderer, in Franz Josef Land, Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen, Iceland (?), Great Britain 

 ( Yorks, Durham, Fair I., and Shetlands), and France. Its regular winter quarters lie in parts of 

 N". America, [F. c. R. j.] 



COUES' REDPOLL [Lun>f<i /im-n'-indnnii exilipes (Coues)]. 



1. Description. Differs from Hornernann's redpoll in having a wing measurement of only 

 3 in. [76 mm.], and the chest much more suffused with rose-pink. The difference in the changes 

 of plumage and the colour of the sexes closely resemble those of the mealy-redpoll, [w. p. p. 

 and T. w.] 



2. Distribution. A rare casual visitor to the east coast of Great Britain. In the breeding 

 season its distribution is circumpolar, and colonies may be found from Lapland and North 

 Russia through Siberia to North Japan, and from Alaska to Hudson's Bay (Ungava). On 

 migration it has been recorded from East Prussia (rare), Baikalia, Japan, and the northern 

 United States. About six British records; three from Yorkshire and three from Fair Island. 

 Apparently hybridises with the mealy-redpoll in Lapland. [F. c. R. J.] 



PARROT-CROSSBILL [L6xia pytyopslttacus Borkhausen ; Loxia pityopsittacus Bechstein. 

 French, bec-croise jierroquet; German, grosser or Kiffernkreuzsclmabel', Italian, crociere 

 delle pinete]. 



1. Description. Distinguished from the common-crossbill by its larger size and the enor- 

 mous beak. The sexes differ in coloration. Length 7 in. [178 mm.]. Adult male general 

 plumage of the body above and below dull vermilion, tinged with yellowish on the sides of the 

 mantle, the rump and top of the head being the brightest ; wings and tail dull brown, margined 

 externally with yellowish olive in some specimens, in others with red. The adult female has the 

 general colour of the upper parts brownish ash, each feather widely margined with olive-yellow. 

 The rump is pale golden yellow ; the wings and tail are ash-brown, margined on the outer web 

 with greenish yellow ; under surface of the body greenish yellow, richer on the thighs ; iris dark 

 hazel ; bill and feet brown. Young birds have the upper parts ash-brown, slightly washed with 

 yellow, and all the feathers mesially streaked with dark brown, [w. p. p. and T. w.] 



2. Distribution. The breeding range of this species extends over almost the whole of Scan- 

 dinavia south to North Skane ; in Russia from Finland to the Baltic Provinces (Esthonia and 

 Livonia) and Poland, according to Dresser east to the Urals, and in Germany somewhat irregu- 

 larly in E. Prussia, Silesia, and Thuringia. It is also said to breed occasionally in Upper Bavaria 

 and Switzerland. Like the common-crossbill it is at times nomadic, and has occurred in the 

 winter months in most parts of the Continent, west to France and south to Italy and Austro- 

 Hungary. Many recorded, but only two satisfactorily identified (Kent and Middlesex). [F. c. R. J.] 



