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/Egiothus linari-us CABANIS, Mus. Hein., 1851, 161. 

 Popular synonyms: LESSER REDPOLL. COMMON REDPOLL. DUSKY 

 REDPOLL. SNOWBIED. REDPOLL LINNET. 



The Redpoll is a common winter resident, arriving in flocks 

 about the last of October and remaining until the first of April. 



The range of this species covers the northern portion of the 

 northern hemisphere, breeding north of the United States and 

 passing southward in winter at times as far as Virginia and 

 Kansas and quite regularly to the middle United States. 



Acanthis linaria holboellii (Brehm). Holboll's Redpoll. 



Linaria holbcellii BBEHM, Handb. Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 280. 

 Acanthis linaria B. Holboellii DUBOIS, Consp. Av. Europe, 1871, 18. 



The only record of the occurrence of this species within our 

 limits that I have been able to find is that of a female taken 

 in Chicago by Mr. George F. Clingman on November 2, 1878, 

 and recorded by Mr. H. K. Coale in the Bulletin of the Nuttall 

 Ornithological Club, Volume VIII, page 239. 



This Redpoll ranges through the northern portions of the 

 northern hemisphere and near the seacoast. In North America 

 it passes southward in winter to northern New York and Mas- 

 sachusetts. 



Acanthis linaria rostrata (Coues). Greater Redpoll. 



JEgiothus rostratus COUES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1861, 



378. 

 Acanthis linaria rostrata STEJNEGEB, Auk, I, April, 1884, 153. 



The Greater Redpoll is a rare winter visitant. There is a 

 specimen in the collection of The Chicago Academy of Sciences 

 taken in the seventies by Mr. C. N. Holden, which is in the 

 plumage of the young male. Mr. H. K. Coale also reports this 

 species as being found in the vicinity of Chicago. It probably 

 occurs with Acanthis linaria. 



Its range includes northeastern North America and Green- 

 land. It is a somewhat irregular winter visitant to New England, 

 New York and Illinois. 



Genus ASTRAGAUNUS Cabanis, 1851. 



Astragalinus tristis (Linnseus). American Goldfinch. 

 Fringilla tristis LINN.EUS, S. X., ed. 10, I, 1758, 181. 

 Chrysotnitris tristis BONAPARTE, List. 1838, 33. 

 AstragaUnvs tristis CABANIS. Mus. Hein., I, July, 1851, 159. 

 Spinus tristis STEJNEGER, Auk, I, October, 1884. 302. 



