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Hornemanni, in honour of the Danish naturalist, Jens Wilken Hornemann 

 (1770-1841). 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. Has 

 occurred in Durham, April 1855; Yorkshire, Oct. 3883 

 and 1893 ; and in the Shetlands (including Fair Isle), Sept. 

 and Oct. 1905. 



General Distribution. Resident in Greenland. Has 

 occurred in Iceland, Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen, Franz-Josef 

 Land, and once in France. A regular winter visitor to parts 

 of North America. 



Acanthis hornemanni exilipes. HOARY 

 REDPOLL. 



exilipes Coues, Proc. Acad. Philad. for 1861, 

 1862, p. 385 : Fort Simpson, Mackenzie. 



Acanthis exilipes (Coues); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. 1888, 

 p. 255 ; Clarke, Ann. Scottish N. R. 1911, p. 53. 



Exilipes = slender-footed, from exiUs = thw, and pes= foot. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. Has 

 occurred in Yorkshire in the winters of 1893 and 1898, and at 

 Fair Isle, Shetlands, in the autumn of 1910. 



General Distribution. Circumpolar, breeding in the ex- 

 treme north of Europe, Asia, and America. In winter 

 occasionally as far south as East Prussia and the northern 

 United States. 



Acanthis flavirostris. TWITE. 



Fringilla flavirostris Linnams, Syst, Nat. 1758, p. 182 

 Sweden. 



Linota flavirostris (Linn.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 54 ; 



Sounders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 193. 

 Acanthis flavirostris Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. 1888, p. 236. 



Flavirostris yellow-billed, homflavus and rostrum. 



