6 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Mr. Gould fortunately enables me to declare that this form is not 
his Z. canescens, as was asserted by Bonaparte and Prof. Schlegel, 
who have been followed in their mistake by most ornithological 
writers. A brief notice of this Redpoll is given in my new edition 
of Yarrell’s work before named (ii. pp. 1483—145). 
3. Next there is a very interesting form, not until this year 
recognised as an inhabitant of the Old World. This is the bird 
described some fifteen years ago by Dr. Coues under the name of 
Aiigiothus exilipes (Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1861, p. 385). Our 
adventurous countrymen who have lately visited the northern parts 
of Russia, Messrs. Alston, Harvie Brown and Seebohm, have 
brought thence numerous specimens of it. In the depth of winter 
it is nearly as hoary as the last, but its small size enables it to be 
easily distinguished therefrom. I have seen examples from Lapland 
proper, but I cannot aver that it breeds there. From Archangel 
eastwards to the Petchora country it must be very common. 
Mr. Dresser has specimens obtained in Turkestan by Dr. Severzoy, 
and we may guess that its range extends wholly across Siberia. 
At any rate it appears in that part of North America which is 
subject to the most severe climate, and it is as an Arctic-American 
species that Dr. Coues described it. Meanwhile we may speak of 
it as Linota exilipes. It has not, so far as I know, been obtained 
in these Islands: Mr. Dresser will no doubt do it justice in his 
valuable work. 
4. Lastly we have the peculiarly British form of Redpoll. This, 
though commonly called by English and some foreign authors 
Linota linaria, is, as I have often said before, not the true linaria 
of Linneus, and its earliest specific epithet is rufescens, assigned 
by Vieillot some sixty years since (Mem. R. Accad. Sc. Torino, xxiii. 
Sc. Fis. p. 202). To Temminck, the inveterate antagonist of the 
naturalist just named, is undoubtedly due the confusion which for 
so long a time surrounded this charming little pet of our childhood. 
According to all the information I have been able to obtain and 
sift, it would not appear to breed anywhere but in the British 
Islands, and, were it not that its roving disposition sends it to 
southern countries in winter, it would be as emphatically peculiar 
to our own land as is the Red Grouse. In point of size it fairly 
agrees with L. exilipes, but L. rufescens is never hoary and keeps 
from its youth upward that rufescent colouring which prompted 
Vieillot to give it the appellation by which it should be known. 
