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FRINGILLIILE. 



INSESSORES. 



CONIROSTRES. 



FRINGILL1DM. 



THE MEALY REDPOLE. 



Linota canescens. 



Linaria canescens, Mealy Redpok, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xi. 



EYTON, Rare Brit. Birds, p. 19. 



borealis, MACGILLIV. Brit. Birds, p. 388. 



Fringilla ,, Gros-bec Boreal^T^MM. Man. d'Ornith., pt. iii. p. 264. 

 Linota canescens, BONAP. Catalogue, p. 34. 



THE MEALY REDPOLE, figured above, has been considered 

 by several Ornithologists to be merely a large variety of the 

 Lesser Redpole, L. linaria, next to be described ; but suf- 

 ficient evidence appears to exist to entitle this bird to 

 specific distinction, and the synonymes of those authors 

 who have hitherto considered it only as a variety are here 

 omitted. The Mealy Redpole is figured as a species by 

 John Walcott, Esq., in his Synopsis of British Birds, and 

 it now ranks as a species in the works of Charles Lucian 



