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mucli greater size, its v«My (liffcriMit notes, and its (piitc ditTereiit modes of 

 lil'e, the ra/ioians bein^ u strictly resident species, and tlie limn'itfs ljein<^ 

 miuriatoi'V. 



In the summer tliis s])ecies is found to the extreme north of (Jreenland, 

 and has never l)een known to nest larther south than the (i'Jth i»arallel. It 

 is more numerous in Xortli (Jreenland than the luKtrins, wliieh is rare at the 

 extreme north, while this is very common even at latitude 7."^°. This hird 

 builds its nests in bushes in the same manner with linariiDi, and its e^us 

 closely resembl those »)f that bird. Its notes, he adds, do not at all re- 

 semble tlmse of the lled-Poll, but are like those of the ^l/itju/is f/crri'In.'i. 



It is a resident of (Jreenland throughout the year, and in the winter keeps 

 on the mcnintains in the interior, but is much more numerous at latitude 06° 

 than farther south. In February, 182b, Holl»oll saw many Hocks on the 

 mountains between Ifitenbank and Omanak, and in the Journey taken in 

 18;>0 by a merchant from Holsteinborg iuto the interior of the ccmntry a 

 great many Hocks were observed. They are idso freipiently met with by 

 reindeer-hunters, who i^o far into the interior. It is rarelv found in South 

 Greenland at any time, and never in the summer. In mild winters they 

 sometimes come about the settlements, as ha]»pened in the winter of 1828-20, 

 and aLjain in 18.">7-'»8. In the intervenin«jr winters it was not seen at (Jod- 

 haab, and in severe winters it is never to be found near the coast, only single 

 S])ecimens occurring there in s]»ring aud autunni. 



IMr. ^FacFarlane thinks this sj)ecies spends the winter at Fort Anderson, as 

 he has met with it as late as December and as early as February, and believes 

 it to have been jjresent in the vicinity in the interval. It nests in May. 

 Mr. Harriott found one of its nests on the branch of a tree, about five feet 

 fnmi the irround. It contained five eugs. 



Tlie egg of this spef ies resetiiMes tiiat of the Unnrins except in size and its 

 lighter ground-color. The ground is a bluish or greenish white, dotted with 

 a lawny-brown. The egg is of a more oval shape, and measures .75 by .GO 

 of au inch. 



JEgiothus flavirostris,' var. brewsteri, Kidgway. 



BBEWSTEB'S LINNET. 



Sp. Char, frt'iioral appearamv soincwliat that of.E. litiarins. hut no rod on tho crown, 

 and the sides and nnnp tiuired with suljthni'-ycUow : no hlack gnlar spot, 9 ^'^ (Iround- 

 color ahovo hjrljt nmhor, ht'coniin<r snlphnr-yt-llow on the nnnp. each feathtT, even on the 

 cTOwn, with a distinct medial streak of dusky. In-neath white, tinjred with fulvous-yel- 

 low anteriorly and aloncr the sides; sides and i-rissuni stre.iketl with dusky. Wino-s and 

 tail dusky ; the former with two pale fulvous bands; the secondaries, primaries, and lail- 



1 FritinllJo Iin(rri", Tf.mm. Mass. Orn, 1835, 267 (not of Linnfeus). " Frf^ffiHa nifesccnx, 

 ViKii.i.. Faun. Fram;. tah. 41, f. 1." LhwUt, wontiuhi, Bi\ & Schlkgel, Mou. Lox. ISoO. "Li- 

 nariti ^flavirosfris, Bkeum." 



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