HOLBOELL'S REDPOLL. 



(Cannabina holboelli.) 



THIS is a large form of the Mealy Redpoll, 

 and has certainly occurred in this 

 country, as two specimens are in the British 

 Museum, procured near Norwich in the month of 

 January. It probably visits us more often than is 

 suspected, for our friend Mr. Chernel has lately 

 procured many specimens in Hungary. The home 

 of the species is in Scandinavia, whence its range 

 extends to Eastern Siberia. It is like a Mealy 

 Redpoll, and has the lower back and rump white, 

 with brown streaks like the back, but it is larger, 

 with the bill 0*5 inch in length instead of 0-4, and 

 the latter is altogether stouter. To us it seems a 

 well-marked race of the Mealy Redpoll, but 



