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205. Leucosticte griseinucha (Brandt) Bd. B 323. c I44a. R 174. 



Brandt's Rosy Finch. 



206. Leucosticte arctoa (Pall.) Bp. B 324. c 145. R . 



Pallas's Rosy Finch. 



207. jEgiothus linaria (L.) Cab. B 320. c 146, I46a. R 179. 



Common Red-poll. 



208. JEgiothus linaria holboelli (Brehm) Coues. B . c . R I79a. (?) 



Holboll's Red-poll. 



209. JEgiothus hornemanni (Holb.) Coues. B 321. c . R 178. (G.) 



Greenland Mealy Red-poll. 



210. -SSgiothus exilipes Coues. B . c 1466. R I78a. 



American Mealy Red-poll. 



211. Linota flavirostris brewsteri (Ridg.) Coues. B . c 147. R 180. (?) 



Brewster's Linnet. 



205. L. grls-gl-nu'-cha. Lat. griseus, gray, and nucha, the nape or scruff of the neck. Neither 



part of the word is classic ; griseus is Latinized from such a word as seen in Fr. gris r 

 Ital. griso, English grisly ; and nucha, a technical word in ornithology, is Latinized from 

 Fr. nuque, the nape (A. S. cncep, a knob, knoll), which is the same as Gaelic cnoc, Welsh 

 cnwc. Nape is thus closely related to neck itself ; A. S. hnecca, Dan. nakke, Dutch nak 

 or nek, Germ, natfen, &c. 



206. L. arc-to'-a. Gr. #/>KTOS, a bear; also, the constellation; hence, the north; adjective 



apitrcpos, same as apicriKos, northern, whence Lat. arctous and arcticus, of same signi- 

 fication. 



207. Aeg-I'-8-thus li-na'-rl-a. Gr. AlyioOos, given by Cabanis as a proper name: supposably 



derived from cuyls, a goat-skin, or aegis, and rlerj/jn, to put or place, as if the shield- 

 bearer, like ^Egisthus. The application is far from being evident. The word is 

 probably only another form of at-yiOos, the name of an unknown bird, occurring in 

 Aristotle, Hist. ix. 1, conjectured by some to be this very species. Lat. linaria; 

 from linum (Gr. \ivov), flax; the root is seen in many words, as line, linear, linen, lint, 

 linnet, &c. 



208. A. 1. h61'-boe"l-li. To Carl v. Holboll, a Danish naturalist, chiefly known in ornithology 



for his researches in Greenland. 



Not recognized in the first ed. of the Check List. 



209. A. horn'-g-man-m. To Hornemann, who had to do with Greenland birds. 



This species is not in the orig. ed. of the Check List. It is only American inasmuch 

 as it is found in Greenland. It is absolutely confined to that country, and is the bird 

 usually quoted as Greenlandic " canescens." 



210. A. ex-fl'-I-pes. Lat. exilis (for exigilis, from exigo), small, slender, &c., and joes, foot. See 



Ardetta, No. 667. 



211. Li-no'-ta fla-vl-ros'-trls brews'-tgr-i. See Linaria, above : the word is not classic, being 



directly Latinized from the Fr. linotte, one of the numberless words from linum, linea, 

 &c. Lat. flavirostris, yellow-billed. To William Brewster, of Cambridge, Mass., an 

 excellent ornithologist. 



This is questionably North American, and questionably a good species. 



