20 FRINGILL1D.E. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. Has 

 occurred near Edinburgh prior to 1825 ; in Buckingham- 

 shire, Dec. 1895 ; co. Mayo, 1901 ; Fair Isle, Shetlands ; the 

 Isle of May, Fife, and the Lothians, Oct. 1910; Cambridge- 

 shire, Dec. 1910. 



General Distribution. Breeds in the extreme northern 

 regions of the Old and New Worlds, as a rule farther north 

 than A. linaria from which, however, it is doubtfully 

 separable. In winter it occurs in central Europe as far south 

 as Austria-Hungary, in parts of central Asia and Japan, and 

 has been found in parts of north-eastern North America. 



Acanthis linaria cabaret. LESSER REDPOLL. 



Fring-illa cabaret P. L. S. Mailer, Syst. Nat. Suppl. 1776, 



p. 165 : Europe. 

 Linota rufescens (Vieillot) ; B. O. V. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 54; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 191. 

 Acanthis rufescens Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. 1888, p. 252. 



Cabaret, the French name of a bird of the Finch tribe, mentioned by 

 Montbeillard, in the 18th Century. 



Distribution in the British Islands. Resident, nesting 

 locally in most counties of England, but rarer in the south 

 and seldom met with in the extreme south-west ; local in 

 Wales ; common in most parts of Scotland, except the north- 

 west, but has nested in the Outer and Inner Hebrides and in 

 the Orkneys. In Ireland it is generally distributed. 



General Distribution. Breeds in the Alps, and probably 

 in the Carpathians and Balkans. It is found in winter in 

 many of the surrounding countries. 



Acanthis hornemanni. HORNEMANN'S REDPOLL. 



Linota hornemanni Holbdll, Naturh. Tidssk. iv. 1843, 

 p. 398 : Greenland. 



Linota hornemanni Holboll B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 54 ; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 189. 

 Acanthis hornemanni STiarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. 1888, p. 256. 



