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sides very narrowly, or sparsely, or not at all, streaked; under tail coverts with darker 
shaft-streaks narrow and indistinct, or sometimes altogether wanting; inner webs of tail- 
feathers very broadly edged with white; plumage in general very light, with whitish or 
light grayish prevailing on upper parts, the lower parts almost entirely white; adult males 
with chest and sides of breast merely tinged with delicate peach-blossom pink. 
“Length about 5.50 to 6.50 inches. Male: Wing 3.35 to 3.45; tail 2.70 to 2.85; exposed 
culmen .32 to .37; depth of bill at base .30 to .32; tarsus .62 to .70. Female: Wing 3.25 
to 3.35 inches; tail 2.65 to 2.80; bill same as in male; tarsus .62 to .68” (Ridgway). 
212. Hoary Redpoll. Acanthis hornemanni exilipes (Cowes). (527a) 
Synonyms: Mealy Redpoll, American Mealy Redpoll.—Avgiothus exilipes, Coues, 
1861.—Fringilla borealis, Aud., 1839.—/Egiothus canescens var. exilipes, Ridgw., 1874. 
Similar to the preceding, but smaller. 
Distribution.—Arctic America and northeastern Asia, south in winter 
to the northern border of the United States. 
This subspecies is included in Stockwell’s (‘‘Archer”?) list in Forest and 
Stream (VII, 18, 276), and in Covert’s list in the same publication, but the 
only Michigan specimen we have been able to locate is a male in the High 
School museum at Sault Ste. Marie, collected there December 7, 1899, 
by Mr. Ralph Endress, and identified by the Division of Biological Survey, 
U.S. Department of Agriculture (Letter from W. P. Melville). According 
to Kumlien and Hollister (Birds of Wisconsin, p. 92) this form was tolerably 
common in Dunn county, Wis., from January to March, 1896, and has been 
found several times in other northern counties in that state, It is said 
they may be readily recognized in flocks of the common Redpoll by their 
lighter color. Although lighter than the common Redpoll they are darker 
than the Greenland Redpoll. 
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION. 
Precisely like the preceding, according to Ridgway, except for size, the present subspecies 
averaging smaller, and with proportionally smaller and more acute bill. 
“Length 4.50 to 5.25 inches. Male: Wing 2.95 to 3.10 inches; tail 2.50 to 2.55; 
exposed culmen .30; depth of bill at base .22 to .25; tarsus .52 to .58. Female: Wing 
2.80 to 3.05; tail 2.30 to 2.60; exposed culmen .28 to .32; depth of bill at base .20 to .25; 
tarsus .50 to .57”’ (Ridgway). 
213. Redpoll. Acanthis linaria linaria (Linn.). (528) 
Synonyms: Common Redpoll, Lesser Redpoll.—Fringilla linaria, Linn., 1758, also of 
Wilson, Nuttall and Audubon.—Acanthis linaria, Bonap., Stejn., A. O. U. Check-list, 
rate ce linaria, Baird, Coues, Ridgw. and many others.—Linaria minor, 
ud., 1839. 
Figure 112. 
About the size of the Hoary Redpoll, but decidedly darker, the rump 
never white and the under tail-coverts always distinctly streaked (Ridgw.). 
Distribution.—Northern portions of the northern Hemisphere, south in ° 
winter pretty regularly to the northern United States, and occasionally 
to the middle states (Virginia, southern Ohio and Indiana, Kansas). 
This is the common Redpoll which appears frequently in November 
in large or small flocks and remains until March. Our earliest fall record 
