INSESSOItES. 



CONIROSTRES. 



MEALY REDPOLE. 



583 

 FRINGILLID^E. 



THE MEALY REDPOLE. 



Linota canescens. 



Linaria canescens, Mealy Redpole, GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



EYTON, Rare Brit. Birds, p. 19. 



borealis, MACGILLIV. Brit. Birds, p. 388. 



Fringilla Gros-bec Boreal, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. pt. iii. p. 264. 



Linota canescens, BONAP. Catalogue, p. 34. 



THE MEALY REDPOLE, figured above, has been con- 

 sidered by several Ornithologists to be merely a large variety 

 of the Lesser Redpole, L. linaria, next to be described ; 

 but sufficient evidence appear to exist to entitle this bird 

 to specific distinction, and the synonymes of those authors 

 who have hitherto considered it only as a variety are here 

 omitted. The Mealy Redpole is figured as a species by 

 John Walcott, Esq., in his Synopsis of British Birds, and 

 it now ranks as a species in the works of Prince Charles 



