MEALY REDPOLL, (ARCTIC RACE.) 
LINOTA HORNEMANNI, LHolboll. 
Linota hornemanni, Ho/bdll, Naturh. Tidssk. iv. p. 398 
(1843) ; Yarr. ed. 4, ii. pp. 141, 143; Dresser, iv. 
p. 55. 
At the time of the publication of Mr. II. Saunders’s 
article on the Mealy Redpoll in the ‘ Manual of British 
Birds’ only one specimen of the race here represented 
had been recorded as having occurred in Great Britain ; 
this individual was knocked down on the sea-banks 
near Whitburn, and was in the collection of the late 
John Hancock, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, who described and 
figured it in his ‘Catalogue of the Birds of Northum- 
berland and Durham’ (p. 54, pl. 5), and there states 
that it was killed on April 24th, 1855. I am indebted 
to the courtesy of Doctor II. Bendelack Hewetson 
for the loan of two skins of this form, obtained in 
October 1883 and October 1893, at Easington, York- 
shire; from the former of these the accompanying 
Plate was taken. 
This race of Redpoll is said to be resident in Green- 
land, and there are records of its occasional occurrence 
