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HOLBOLL'8 E.EDPOLE. 



GRANIVOR^. 



Famili/ FRINGILLIDjE. f Bonaparte. J 



Genus Fringilla. ( Linncbus.) 



HOLBOLUS REDPOLE. 



Fringilla holhoelli. 



Fringilla holboellij 



' ' cancscens, 

 (( (( 



" boreal is, 



Linaria canescens, 



" holhoelli, 

 Aeanthis holbollii, 

 x-Egiothus holhoelli, 

 Ca?'diielis holboellii, 

 Siserin Grisatre, 

 Grauer Leinfink, 



Brehm. 



De Selys; Faune Beige. 

 Schlegel; Revue. 

 Temminck; Man., 1835. 

 Keyserling and Blasius; Die 



Wirbelthiere Europa's. 

 Gould. Degland. 

 Brehm. 

 Bonaparte. 

 Cabanis. 

 Dubois. 



Of the French. 

 Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Rump pure white in all seasons, except in the breeding 

 season, when it has in the male a rose-red tint ; tail six cents and a half, 

 equal about to two inches and three fifths. Length five inches and three 

 fifths. — Degland. 



The Lesser aixd Mealy Eed^aoles are included in our British lists, 

 both of them being frequently taken in this country. Mr. Gould has, 

 however, figured a variety in his "Birds of Europe," which is con- 

 sidered by some to be only a variety of F. horealis ; and Mr. Morris, 

 in his "History of British Birds," has figured the Mealy Redpole 

 under Gould's name of Linaria canescens. 



As long ago, however, as 1842, M. de Selys-Longchamps, in his 

 "Faune Beige," p. 73, remarked that "i^. horealis must not be con- 



