MEALY REDPOLE. 557 
Bonaparte, Prince of Musignano, of Mr. Gould, and Mr. 
Byton. By the synonyme quoted in his work, Mr. Mac- 
gillivray appears to consider our Mealy Redpole as identical 
with the Fringilla Borealis of the third part of M. Tem- 
minck’s Manual, and the description there given of the 
plumage in its various states very closely resembles that of 
our bird. The Lesser Redpole of this country has been 
considered identical with the Redpole of North America ; 
but, according to the testimony of Mr. Gould, the North 
American bird appears to be the ZL. canescens, or Mealy 
Redpole rather than the Lesser Redpole of authors; and 
the measurement given in the different works on the Birds 
of North America, approach nearer to those of our Mealy 
Redpole than to the lesser bird. Mr. Gould, in the article 
on the Mealy Redpole in the eleventh part of his Birds of 
Kurope, says, ‘‘ Whether this species is truly a native 
of Europe, or whether those which occur in our island are 
arrivals from the northern portions of the American conti- 
nent, is a matter of doubt; true it is that the specimens 
brought home by Dr. Richardson, which furnished the de- 
scriptions given in the Fauna-Boreali Americana, are strict- 
ly identical with the bird before us.” The Prince of Mu- 
signano includes two species of Redpole in his Catalogue of 
the Birds of North America, Borealis and Linaria. 
To return, however, to our English species: the Mealy 
Redpole, or Stone Redpole, as it is also called, is well 
known to the London dealers in birds, and considered by 
them as distinct from the Lesser Redpole; but the occur- 
rence of the Mealy Redpole in the vicinity of London is 
rare even to those men who, obtaming their livelihood by 
bird-catching, trap hundreds of dozens of birds in the course 
of the year. The Lesser Redpole, on the contrary, is very 
common. A respectable dealer in birds tells me that about 
