130 THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Curvirostra leuooptera Wilson, Amer. Orn., IV, 1811, 48, pi. 31, 

 fig. 3. 



The White-winged Crossbill is a very rare winter visitant. 

 The first record I have of the capture of this species is that of a 

 specimen in the collection of Mr. B. T. Gault which was taken 

 near Chicago in the seventies. In the year 1894, from the ninth 

 to the twentieth of November, enormous flocks of these Crossbills 

 passed along the lake shore and many were shot with sling- 

 shots by boys. I have several fine specimens which were taken 

 by Mr. Claude Tallman at Morgan Park, Illinois, on November 9, 

 1894. Mr. Amos W. Butler states.^ that during the summer of 

 1869, Mr. C. E. Aiken found this species in the vicinity of Chi- 

 cago, and in Lake County, Indiana, in company with the American 

 Crossbill, and that they remained throughout the winter succeed- 

 ing. Mr. E. W. Nelson says :* "A winter resident of rare oc- 

 currence at present." 



The range of this species covers northern North America, 

 breeding from northern New England and the northern Rocky 

 Mountain districts in the United States northward. 



Genus ACANTHIS Bechstein, 1803. 



Acantsis homemannii exilipes (Coues), Hoary Bedpoll. 



^giothus exilipes Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. Philadelphia, 1861, 385. 

 Acanthis hornemannii exilipes Stejnegeb, Auk, I, April, 1884, 152. 

 JEgiothus canescens Cabanis, of some authors. 



Popular synonyms : Mealy Redpoll. Hoaby Linnet. White- 

 bumped Redpoll. 



Regarding the occurrence of this species within our limits, 

 Mr. Robert Ridgway says:f "I have seen specimens in the col- 

 lection of Mr. E. W. Nelson, that were collected in the vicinity 

 of Chicago, but I am unable to give dates of their capture." 

 Mr. Nelson himself says: "Rare winter visitant with the pre- 

 ceding {Acanthis linaria)." 



This species ranges through Arctic America and northeastern 

 Asia, migrating southward at times to the northern United 

 States. 



Acanthis linaria (Linnasus). Bedpoll. 



Fringilla linaria LiNNaius, S. N., ed. 10, I, 1758, 182. 

 Acanthis linaria Bonapaete, & Schleg., Mon. Lex., 1850, 48. 

 Linaria minor Sw. & Rich., Fauna Bor. Amer., II, 1881, 267. 



t Birds of Indiana. Twenty-second Annual Report, Dept. Geol. and Nat. Re- 

 ■ources, Indiana, 1897, 921. 



*Birds of Northeastern Illinois, Bull, of the Essex Institute, Vol. VIII, 1876, 105. 

 tOrnithology of Illinois, Vol. I, 1889, 233. 



