EED-POLL LINNET. 319 



This species is generally considered more northerly in its range than 

 the Red Crossbill, Its habitual breeding range is from Northern New 

 England northward; it is also found in Wyoming in summer. Audubon 

 mentions its breeding in Pennsylvania in summer, but this was excep- 

 tional. In its habits it resembles the preceding. 



The nest is described as composed of spruce twigs and lichensj lined 

 with hair and shreds of bark. The eggs are pale blue, with fine dots of 

 black and ashy-lilac at the larger end. 



Genus .^GIOTHUS. Cabanis. 



Bill very shore, conical, extremely acute, the outliues even concave, base of upper 

 mandible and nostrils concealed by bristly feathers, middle of mandible with several 

 parallel ridges. Wings very long, reaching to the middle of the forked tail, second qaill 

 a little the longest. Middle toe and claw as long as the tarsus ; inner lateral toe rather 

 the longer; hind cliiw longer than its digit. 



^GIOTHLS LINAEIA (L ) Cab. 



l!ted.-poll Ijinnet, 



FringUla Unaria, Kirtlasd, Ohio Geolng. Surv , Irl'Sri, 161, 183; Fam. Visitor, i, 1850, 63. 



— Kead, Proc. Phila. Acad. N;it. Sci,, vi, ISaS, 395. 

 Aegiothus Unaria, Baied, P. E. E. Eap., ix, 1858, 439. — Wheaton, Ohio Agric. Eep. for 



1860, 18ol, sab; E -print, 8. 

 JEgiolhus linarin, Wheaton, Food of Birds, etc , Ohio Agric. Eep. for 1874, 1875, 566 ; 



Eeprint, 6. 

 ^giothus Hnaritts, Baird, Brewbr and Eidgwat, N. A. Birds, i, 1874, 497. 

 JEgoilhus (error) Knaria, Langdon, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 8; Jonrn. Gin. Soo. Nat. 



Hist., i, 1878, 114; Eeprint, .5. 

 JEgoilhus (error) Unarms, LaNGDqn, Eevised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1, 1879, 175 ; 



Eeprint, 0. 

 Eed-poll, KlRTLAND, Fam. Visitor, i, 1850, 120, 140, 148 ; Ohio Farmer, ix, 1860, 91. 



FringUla Unaria, Linn^us, Syst. Nat., i, 1766, '^ii. 

 JEgioihus Unarius, Cabanis, Mus Hein., 1851, 161. 



Upper parts streaked with dusky and flaxen in about equal amounts, rump white or 

 rosey, streaked with dusky; below, struaked on the sides, belly dull white; bill mostly 

 yellow ; feat blackish. Length, oi-of ; wing, 2|-3 ; tail, 2J-2J. 



Habitat, northern regions of both Hemispheres, ranging irregularly southward in 

 winter to the Middle States or beyond, and to corresponding latitudes in the West. 



Tolerably regular winter resident in Northern Ohio, casual in other 

 portions of the State. Dr. Kirtland made their acquaintance about 

 1835-6, when he states that they appeared in flocks on? his premises. 

 He states that they were unusually abundant in the winter of 1849-50, 

 when they were slow in taking their departure, remaining in large 

 flocks until April. Mr. Read gives it as abundant during extremely 

 cold weather. I have seen specimens from Sandusky, and Mr. Langdon 



