54- FRINGILLID^. 



breeding chiefly in the birch-region, and straying southwards 

 in winter. 



Linota rufescens. Lesser Redpoll. 



Linaria rufescens, Vieillot, Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. xxiii. 

 p. 202 (1816). 



Linaria minor, Macg. i. p. 383. 



Fringilla linaria, Hewitson, p. 201 ; Gray, p. 98. 



Linota linaria, Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 562 ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 589. 



Linota rufescens, Newton, ii. p. 146 ; Hurting, p. 28 ; Dresser, 



iv. p. 47. 

 iEgiothus rufescens, Gould, iii. pi. 52. 

 Lesser Redpole, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 514. 



Eufescens = becoming red, reddish ; from rufus = red. 



Resident in Scotland and the north of England ; a winter 

 visitant to the south, where, however, individuals often remain 

 to breed. A winter visitant to France and the Netherlands. 



Linota hornemanni. Greenland Eedpoll. 



Linota hornemanni, Holboll, Naturh. Tidssk. iv. p. 898 



(1843). 



Linota hornemanni, Newton^ ii. pp. 141, 143; Dresser, iv. 

 p. 55. 



Named in honour of the Danish naturalist Jens Wilken Homemann, b. 1770, 

 d. 1841. 



One was killed in April 1855 on the sea-banks near Whit- 

 burn, Durham (Hancock, Birds of North, and Dui'ham, p. 54, 

 pi. 5). Common in Greenland, rare in Iceland, and acci- 

 dental in Europe. 



Linota flavirostris. Twite. 



Fringilla flavirostris, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 322 (1766) . 

 Fringilla montium, Naum. v. p. 103 ; Heivitson, p. 203. 



