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on the point. He writes without hesitation of Linota rufescens 

 as occasionally breeding in the Italian Alps. This induces me 

 to add this note to the present edition ; for if it could be dis- 

 tinctly proved that L. rufescens is f umd breeding in the Alpine 

 region, new light would be thrown, not only on the curious 

 geographical distribution of this form, but on the abnormal 

 character of the ornithology of the Alps. Prof. Giglioli may 

 be himself mistaken, and as Anderegg and I failed to skin our 

 bird, we cannot produce it as evidence ; but my notes made 

 while examining it point decidedly to Z. rufescens rather than 

 L. litiaria, the length, for example, appearing as only four 

 inches. 



