APPENDIX. 



ADDENDA TO VOL. I. 



THE following alterations and additions have become necessary 

 since the publication of the earlier volumes of the present 

 work. 



Page 30. 



GENUS CHLORIS. 



The name Chloris having been preoccupied in Botany, the 

 name of Ligurinus of Kaup must be employed for the Green- 

 finch. 



Page 31, line 6 from top. Read: 



THE GREENFINCH. LIGURINUS CHLORIS. 



Page 48. Before " The Sparrows," insert : 



VI. COUES* REDPOLL. CANNABINA EXILIPES. 



JEgiothus exilipes, Cones, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1861, p. 385. 

 Acanthis exilipes, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 254 (1888). 

 Linota hornemanni (nee. Holboell), Lilford. Col. Fig. Brit. B. 

 part xxx. (1895). 



Adult. Very similar to the Mealy Redpole, but distinguished 

 by its purer colour, and by having the rump pure white, with a 

 rosy tinge, not streaked as in the Mealy Redpole. Bill, 

 orange-yellow; the culmen and tip of the genys blackish; feet 

 blackish-brown ; iris dark brown. Total length, 5 inches ; 

 culmen, 0-4; wing, 3-0; tail, 2-3; tarsus, 0-55. 



The changes of plumage are similar to those undergone by 

 the Mealy Redpoll. 



Range in Great Britain. Mr. Cordeaux has recorded a specimen 

 of this white-rumped Redpoll from the Humber district, and 

 two specimens are in Dr. Bendelack Hewetson's collection from 

 Easington in Yorkshire, where they were obtained in October, 



