UNOTA 315 



of L. flavirostris, but are a trifle paler and the markings 

 are fewer and smaller. In size they average about 0'61 

 by 048. 



Junco hiemalis (Linn.), a widely distributed American species has been 

 recorded from North East Siberia, a specimen having been obtained on the 

 Vega expedition. 



461. MEALY REDPOLL. 

 LINOTA LINARIA. 



Linota linaria (Linn.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 322 (1766) ; (Naum.) v. p. 173, 

 Taf. 126 ; Audubon, B. Amer. pi. 375 ; (Gould), B. of Gt. Brit, iii. 

 pi. 51 ; Newton, ii. p. 133 ; Dresser, iv. p. 37, pi. 187 ; (Sharpe), 

 Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 245 ; Saunders, p. 189 ; Lilford, iv. p. 57, 

 pi. 28 ; L. canescens, (Gould), B. of E. iii. pi. 193 ; (Hewitson), i. 

 p. 202, pi. li. 



Sizerin boreal, French ; Bvrlcenzeisig, Bcrgzcisig, German ; 

 OrganettOy Ital. ; Barmsijsje, Dutch ; Graasidsken, Dan.; Graasiske, 

 Norw. ; Grdsiska, Swed. ; Urpfaarpunen, Finn. ; Tchetchotka, 

 Russ. 



ad. (Sweden). Forehead and fore-crown deep blood-red ; upper 

 parts generally blackish brown, the feathers margined with pale brown or 

 brownish white, rump much paler and washed with red ; wings and tail 

 blackish brown, the former and the middle rectrices margined with white ; 

 larger and median wing-coverts tipped with white forming two alar 

 bars ; lores and chin black ; throat and upper breast rose-pink, the rest of 

 under parts white ; flanks streaked with blackish brown ; bill dark 

 horn-brown, yellowish at the base ; legs and iris dark brown. Culmen 

 0'38, wing 3'08, tail 2-58, tarsus 0'58 inch. The female resembles the 

 male but is smaller and lacks the red in the plumage. In the winter 

 the feathers have the light margins much broader, the red in the male 

 being almost hidden, and the bill is yellow, tipped with brown. 



Hob. The high North of both the Old and New Worlds; 

 migrating South for the winter. 



Extremely active and lively in its general habits, it consorts 

 with Titmice and other small birds in the winter, and roves 

 about the groves, woods, and fields where there are trees and 

 bushes in search of food, but in the summer are found in pairs 

 in the open portions of the forests. Its food consists of seed 

 and in the summer of insects of various kinds. Its call-note 

 resembles that of the Canary, and its song is a prolonged trill 

 and a soft twitter ; in the winter when in flocks they utter a 

 soft twittering note. It breeds in the high north, and places 

 its nest, which is a neat structure of fine birch-twigs, vegetable 



