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SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. — PASSEEES— OSCINES. 



206. 



68. 



JOT. 



L. arcto'a. (Gr. dpKTaos, arldoios, northera.) Pallas's Rosy Finch. Dusky-purplish ; 

 neck above pale yellowish ; forehead and nasal feathers blackish ; outer webs of quills and 

 wing-coverts, tail-covcrts, rump and crissuin silvery-gray, rosy-margiued. Kurile and Aleu- 

 tian Islands ; Siberia. Subgenerically different from any of the foregoing. 

 ^;GI'0THUS. (Gr. Alylodos, nom. propr. Fig. 216.) Ked-poll Linnets. Bill small, 

 short, straight, very acute, more or less compressed, the lateral outlines usually a little concave, 

 those of culmen and gouys straight ; commissure straight to the slight angulation. Base of bill 

 thickly beset with a ruff of antrorse plumules, concealing the small nasal fossse and round 

 Udstrils. Wings longer than tail, pointed by first 3 primaries. 

 Tail rather long for this group, forked. Feet small and weak, 

 but tarsi longer than middle toe without claw ; lateral toes of 

 equal lengths, their claw-tips falling beyond base of middle claw. -.<*. £ - 

 Hind claw much longer, stouter and more curved than the mid- 

 dle, exceeding its digit in length. Size small ; plumage streaky \n 

 with dusky, white, and flaxen colors, crown crimson, face and 

 throat blackish ; sexes otherwise dissimilar ; ^ with rosy or 

 oarnrinc on breast, wanting in $ . Scarcely different from Lvnota 

 ( ^//»i'!>o.sfr(s, etc.) the pattern of coloration being the most avail- 

 able distinction. Arboreal, gregarious, highly boreal finches of 

 cir.-umpolar distributiim, breeding in high latitudes and alpine 



regions, roving south in winter in great flocks. The species are -pj^, „^^ — Det,iilsof ■Enin- 



much involved ; we have four recognizable forms. thusi^E. honumanni, nnl. sir.e}. 



(From Elliot.) 

 Ana/ysls of Species. 



Tiirsus as long as middle toe .ind claw. Heavily streaked below. Kump always fully streaked. 



Smaller: length about 5.50; wing 3.00; bill moderate (N. Am. at large) linaria 207 



Larger: length about G. 00; wing .3.25; bill immoderate (Canada, etc.) holhoelVt 208 



Tarsus longer than middle toe and claw. Lightly or scarcely streaked below. Eump of adult j" immacu- 

 late white to some extent. 

 Smaller: length about 5.50 ; wing 3.00. Bill and feet small {Brit. Am., scarcely U. S.) . . . exllipes 210 

 Larger: length about 6.00; wing 3.30. Bill and feet large (Greenland) koTvtemanni 209 



2E. llna'ria. (L;it. liiiann, llaxen ; a linnet. Fig. 217-) Common Eed-poll. Adult ^ : 

 Frontlet, lures, ;\iiil tliroat-spot sooty-black. Crown crimson. Above, variegated with brown- 

 ish-yellow and dusky, the feathers having dark 

 -<!9«w^as>"v>i centres and flaxen edges. Rump streaked with 



~&sW dusky and white, and tinged with rosy, more or 



I^^^S^S^ ^^^^ ^"^ according to age and season. Below, 



"^ ' white, the sides and crissum streaked witli dusky, 



the entire fore-parts cidored with rose-red more 



B^~^^^^^^^^^g *" ^ or less rich and extensive according to same cir- 



^^^^^^Ka^^i=== ~-~ eumstances. Wings and tail dusky, the feathers 



'""^^^^^^^ "^^^ff" edged with whitish, tlie middle and greater 



,*~I;rs^^K^zr -3^»> coverts tipped with the same, forming two cross- 



°4/\/!' '^4 4'^'^^=^ ""^"^ bars. Bill black or yellow, usually found yel- 



aiJ^V^2i^s«=-^^-^ low with dusky tip and edges. Feet blackish. 



■fn-v^^r^.'iffl^t Length 5.50; extent 9.00; wing 3.00; tail 



2.50; bill 0.33; tarsus 0.65; middle toe and 



f~ "'S^lillt^ claw the same. Adult 9 ; Wanting entirely 



— or having but a trace of rosy on the rump and 



Fi( T c mmon Rel poll reduced (Shep- under parts. Breast with a dingy yellowish wash, 

 pard del. Nichols sc.) streaked with dusky. Slightly smaller. Young: 



Like 9 > tut the ij soon showing rosy. Young may usually be distinguished from the adult 9 ty 



