556 FRINGILLID&. 
INSESSORES. I’'RINGILLIDA. 
CONIROSTRES. 
THE MEALY REDPOLE. 
Linota canescens. 
Tinaria canescens, Mealy Redpole, Gou.p, Birds of Europe, pt. xi. 
55 - Bs oo Eyton, Rare Brit. Birds, p. 19. 
3 borealis, os os Maceittiv. Brit. Birds, p. 388. 
Fringilla ,, Gros-bee Boreal, Temm. Man. d’Ornith., pt. iii. p. 264. 
Linota canescens, Bonap. Catalogue, p. 34. 
Tue Meaty Reppots, figured above, has been considered 
by several Ornithologists to be merely a large variety of the 
Lesser Redpole, LZ. linaria, next to be described ; but suf 
ficient evidence appears to exist to entitle this bird to 
specific distinction, and the synonymes of those authors 
who have hitherto considered it only as a variety are here 
omitted. The Mealy Redpole is figured as a species by 
John Walcott, Esq., in his Synopsis of British Birds, and 
it now ranks as a species in the works of Charles Lucian 
