HYPOTHETICAL LIST. 751 
placed upon specimens known to have been taken outside the state, it 
seems altogether probable that this is a southern specimen. 
Purple Grackle. Quiscalus quiscula quiscula (Linn.). (511) 
This is the common Crow Blackbird of the Atlantic states south of 
Massachusetts and east of the Alleghanies. We have no record of its 
occurrence in Michigan. It is very similar to the Bronzed Grackle in 
size, coloration and habits, but typical examples may be readily dis- 
criminated by having the feathers of back, rump and belly marked with 
beautiful iridescent bars which are wanting in the Bronzed Grackle. 
Holbeell’s Redpoll. Acanthis linaria holbeelli (Brehm). (528a) 
In color precisely like the Common Redpoll, but larger and with the bill 
relatively longer. 
Distribution.— Extreme northern parts of the continent (also Europe- 
Asia), especially the islands of the Arctic. South in winter rarely to the 
northern United States. 
No record for Michigan, but said to have been taken in Wisconsin and 
identified by Dr. A. K. Fisher and Robt. Ridgway (Kumlien and Hollister, 
Birds of Wisconsin, 1903, p. 98). 
Painted Longspur. Calcarius pictus (Swains). (537) 
Synonyms: Smith’s Longspur. 
The Painted Longspur in winter plumage is quite similar to the Lapland 
Longspur, but the male has the entire under parts yellowish brown or 
buffy, and the throat and fore-breast streaked with dusky. The young 
and females, however, are separable with difficulty from similar stages 
of the Lapland Longspur and must be identified by experts. 
This species is a northwestern one, ranging from the Arctic Coast to 
Texas, but rarely passing east of Wisconsin and Illinois during migrations. 
It is attributed to Michigan by ‘‘Archer” (G. A. Stockwell) in his list of 
Michigan birds (Forest and Stream, VIII, 18, p. 281), but we have no 
other warrant for its insertion as a bird of our state. 
Mr. E. W. Nelson found a flock of about 75 painted Longspurs near 
Calumet Lake, in northeastern Illinois, in March, 1875, and Amos Butler 
states that the species is sometimes a common migrant in northwestern 
Indiana, in the vicinity of Lake Michigan. It has also been recorded 
from various places in northeastern Illinois, and about Chicago, and there 
is a record for Greencastle, Ind. Since the bird is a very strong flyer, 
and an abundant migrant a little farther west, it seems by no means im- 
probable that it occasionally wanders into Michigan, especially into the 
southwest corner of the state. The Wisconsin records for this species 
seem to be confined to the southern part of the state, and as Kumlien and 
Hollister say: ‘‘Presumably the migration is from the northwest and 
they merely cross the southern counties of Wisconsin in the fall, as they 
are not at all rare on the prairies of Illinois in winter” (Birds of Wisconsin, 
1903, p. 95). 
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION. 
. Wing more than 3.50 inches; all the tail-feathers with inner webs dusky at base, the 
inner web of the outer feather chiefly white; under wing-coverts and axillars wholly pure 
white; entire lower parts buffy. 
