206. 
68. 
207. 
852 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. — PASSERES — OSCINES. 
L. arcto'a. (Gr. dpxrdos, arktoios, northern.) Patuas’s Rosy Fincu. Dusky-purplish ; 
neck above pale yellowish ; forehead and nasal feathers blackish; outer webs of quills and 
wing-coverts, tail-coverts, rump and crissum silvery-gray, rosy-margined. Kurile and Aleu- 
tian Islands; Siberia. Subgenerically different from any of the foregoing. 
EGIVOTHUS. (Gr. Alyiodos, nom. propr. Fig. 216.) Rep-porn Linnets. Bill small, 
short, straight, very acute, more or less compressed, the lateral outlines usually a little concave, 
those of culmen and gonys straight; commissure straight to the slight angulation. Base of bill 
thickly beset with a ruff of antrorse plumules, concealing the small nasal fossee and round 
nostrils. Wings longer than tail, pointed by first 3 primaries. 
Tail rather long for this group, forked. Feet small and weak, 
but tarsi longer than middle toe without claw; lateral toes of 
equal lengths, their claw-tips falling beyond base of middle claw. 
Hind claw much longer, stouter and more curved than the iid- 
dle, exceeding its digit in length. Size small; plumage streaky 
with dusky, white, and flaxen colors, crown crimson, face and 
throat blackish; sexes otherwise dissimilar; @ with rosy or 
carmine on breast, wanting in 9. Scarcely different from Linota 
(flavirostris, ete.) the pattern of coloration being the most avail- 
able distinction. Arboreal, gregarious, highly boreal finches of 
circumpolar distribution, breeding in high latitudes and alpine 
regions, roving south in winter in great flocks. The species are 
: : Fie. 216. — Details of Zgio- 
much involved ; we have four recognizable forms. thus (4. hornemanni, nat. size). 
(From Elliot.) 
Analysis of Species. 
Tarsus as long as middle toe and claw. Heavily streaked below. Rump always fully streaked. . 
Smaller: length about 5.50; wing 3.00; bill moderate (N. Am. atlarge) . . Aen linaria 207 
Larger: length about 6.00; wing 3.25; bill immoderate (Canada, etc.) . . . » . . . . holboelli 208 
Tarsus longer than middle toe and claw. Lightly or scarcely streaked below. Rump of adult ¢ immacu- 
late white to some extént. 
Smaller: length about 5.50; wing 3.00. Bill and feet small (Brit. Am., scarcely U.S.). . . exilipes 210 
Larger: length about 6.00; wing 3.30. Bill and feet large (Greenland) . . « hornemanni 209 
#, linaria. (Lat. linaria, flaxen; a linnet. Fig. 217.) Common Rep-pouty. Adult ¢- 
Frontlet, lores, and throat-spot sooty-black. Crown crimson. Above, variegated with brown- 
ish-yellow and dusky, the feathers having dark 
centres and flaxen edges. Rump streaked with 
dusky and white, and tinged with rosy, more or 
less so according to age and season. Below, 
white, the sides and crissum streaked with dusky, 
the entire fore-parts colored with rose-red more 
or less rich and extensive according to same cir- 
cumstances. Wings and tail dusky, the feathers 
edged with whitish, the middle and greater 
coverts tipped with the same, forming two cross- 
bars. Bill black or yellow, usually found yel- 
low with dusky tip and edges. Feet blackish. 
Length 5.50; extent 9.00; wing 3.00; tail 
2.50; bill 0.383; tarsus 0.65; middle toe and 
claw the same. Adult 9 : Wanting entirely 
or having but a trace of rosy on the rump and 
Fic. 217.—Common Red-poll, reduced. (Shep- under parts. Breast with adingy yellowish wash, 
pard del. Nichols sc.) streaked with dusky. Slightly smaller. Young: 
Like 9, but the gf soon showing rosy. Young may usually be distinguished from the adult ? by 
