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LINOTA EXILIPES. 



(COUES'S REDPOLL.) 



Fringilla borealis, Aud. Ora. Biogr. v. p. 87, pi. 400 (1839, nee Vieill.). 

 Linaria borealis, Aud. B. Am. iii. p. 120, pi. 178 (1841, nee Vieill.). 

 JEgiothus canescens, Eoss, Edinb. Fhil. Journ. 1861, p. 163, nee Gould. 

 JEgiothus exilipes, Coues, Pr. Phil. Acad. 1861, p. 385. 

 JEgiothus linaria, var. exilipes, Coues, Key, p. 131 (1872). 

 JEgiotlius canescens, var. exilipes, Eidgw. B., Br. & E. N.A. B. i. p. 493 (1874). 

 Linota canescens, Seeb. & H.-Br. Ibis, 1876, p. 116, nee Gould. 

 Linota eocilipes (Coues), Newton, Zoologist, 1877, p. 6. 



Figurce notabiles. 



Aud. Orn. Biogr. pi. 400; id. B. Am. pi. 178; Elliot, B. N. Am. pi. 9; Coues, Key, pi. 3. 

 fig. 6 ; Eidgw. op. cit. pi. 22. fig. 2. 



cj ad. Linotm hornemanni similis sed minor, corpore supra pallidiore, rostro breviore et angustiore. 



5 ad. mari similis sed minor, corpore supra saturatiore, uropygio et pectore albis nee rosaceo lavatis. 



Adult Male (Ust Zylma, 17th April). Crown red; lores blackish; sides of the head, hind neck, and back 

 greyish, tolerably closely striped with blackish grey ; rump white with a slight rose tinge ; wings and 

 tail blackish, narrowly margined with white, the inner secondaries and wing-coverts tolerably broadly 

 tipped with white ; chin and a spot on the upper throat black ; underparts white, with faint striations 

 on the flanks, throat, and upper breast washed with rosy red ; bill dark horn, yellowish at the base ; 

 iris brown ; legs dark brown. Total length about 5 inches, culmen 035, wing 30, tail 2'7, tarsus 06. 



Adult Female (Petchora) . Differs from the male in being rather smaller in size, in having the upper parts 

 rather darker, and in lacking the rosy red tinge on the rump and breast. 



Obs. Examples of this species obtained in May and in June differ merely in having the white margins to 

 the feathers on the upper parts rather narrower, and the males have the red tinge on the rump and 

 breast rather brighter, but all have the rump unstriped, white tinged with red. The male specimen 

 from Darasun, killed in the winter, differs from the male above described in lacking all trace of rosy 

 red on the rump and breast, and in having the upper parts and sides of the head faintly washed with 

 buff, the throat being also faintly tinged with this colour. 



In some stages of plumage the present species is very difficult to separate from L. linaria ; and this I find 

 especially the case in the series from the • Petchora. In winter dress its extreme whiteness and the 

 white rump render it easily distinguishable; and from examples of L. linaria from Scandinavia and 

 North America it is tolerably easily separable at all seasons ; but amongst the Redpolls obtained by 

 Messrs. Seebohm and Harvie-Brown on the Petchora in the summer season are some which it is 

 difficult to determine as to whether they should be referred to L. linaria or L. exilipes; for they 

 resemble the latter in form and measurements, but have the rump more or less striped and not white. 



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