11^2 Stejneger on the Genus Acanthis. [April 



The following brief synopsis and synonymy may be regai\ied 

 as a condensed summary of the above notes. The synonymy, it 

 will be seen, does not pretend to be in any w^ay complete. 



Synopsis. 

 I. Acanthis hornemannii (Hole.) Stgr. 



1843. — Lhiota hornemannii HoLBOLL, Naturh. Tidskr. (IV, p. 398). 



1850. — Acanthis catiescens Bp. & Schleg. Mon. Lox. p. 47, pi. 51 

 {tiec Gould, 1834). 



(^^Mgiothus canescens var. canescens'B. Br. & Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. B. 

 I, p. 493. — No. 178, Ridgw. Nomenclature, p. 22. — ^^giothus honte- 

 maimi, No. 209, CouES, Check L., 2d ed., p. 49.) 



Hab. — Greenland and Eastern Arctic America. 



I a. Acanthis hornemannii exilipes (Coues) Stgr. 



1839. — Fringilla borealis AuD. Orn. Biogr. V, p. 87, pi. 400 {iiec 

 ViEiLL. 1818). 



i860. — Fringilla linaria canescens v. Schrenck, Reise Amurl. I, p. 296. 



1861. — yEgiothtis catiescens Ross, Edinb. Phil. Journ. 1861, p. 163 

 {nee Goiii.D, 1837). 



1861. — y^giothus exilipes CouES, Pr. Phil. Ac. 1861, p. 385. 



1872. — y^giothus linaria var. exilipes CoUES, Key, p. 131. 



1874. — ^Sgiothus ca7iesce?is exilipes Ridgw. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. 



X, p. 372. 



{^^giothus canescens var. exilipes. B. Br. & RiDGW. /. c. — No. i78«, 

 Ridgw. /. c. — ^^giothus exilipes, No. 210, Coues, /. r.) 

 Hab. — Arctic America and Northeastern Asia. 



1758 

 1818 

 1831 

 1831 



2. Acanthis linaria (Lin.) Bp. & Schl. 



— Fringilla linaria LiN. S. N. loth ed. I, p. 182. 



— Linaria borealis ViEiLL. Mem. Ac. Tor. XXIII (p. 199). 



— Linaria agrorntn Brehm, Handb. Vog. Deutschl. p. 281. 



— Linaria betulartcni Brehm, ibid. p. 282. 



— Linaria canescens Gould, B. of Eur. Ill (pi. 193). 



— Fringilla linaria betularum, Sundev. Sv. Vet. Ac. Handl. 1840 



1840, 



(P- .^9)- 



■ ^F^giothus fuscescens CouES, Pr. Phil. Ac 1S61, p. 222. 

 1866. — Fringilla linaria brevirostris Holmgr. Skand. Fogl. I, p. 328. 

 iS'jT,.— yEgiothus rufescens A1.ST. & Brown, Ibis, 1873. p. 64 {nee 



ViEILL.). 



{^F,gioth2is linarius var. linarius B. Br. & ^inGVf. I. c— jFgiothtts 

 linaria, No. 179, RiDGW. I. c. —No. 207, Coues, /. c.) 



Hab. — Northern portion of Palaearctic and Nearctic Regions. 



