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Adult male hi winter. — Similar to tlie spring male, but head, neck, 

 back, and scapulars more or less tinged with pale buff, the dusky streaks 

 on back, etc. , narrower, white edgings of wings and tail broader, and 

 bill yellowish with dusky tip. 



Adult female in sprbig. — Similar to the spring male, but without 

 any pink tinge on rump or chest, and usually (?) with the sides and 

 flanks (rarely under tail-coverts also) narrowly streaked with grayish 

 dusky. 



Adult female in winter. — Similar to the spring female, but head, 

 neck, back, etc., more or less strongly tinged with buff, the dusky 

 streaks of back, etc., narrower, the white edgings of wings and tail 

 broader, and the bill yellowish with dusky tip. 



[Many adult males are quite similar in coloration to adult females, 

 lacking any trace of pink on chest or rump. Younger birds, appar- 

 ently, are more strongly tinged with buff in winter plumage. First 

 plumage not seen.] 



Adxdt maZe.— Length (skins), 135.89-151.13 (Ml. 73); wing, 81. OS- 

 GO. 93 (85.85); tail, 57.91-66.55 (63.26); exposed culmen, 8.6J-10.16 

 (9.14); depth of bill at base, 7.62-8.38 (8.13); tarsus, 15.75-17.27 (16.51); 

 middle toe, 8.38-9.65 (9.14). ^ 



J.6Z'MZi!/emaZe.— Length (skins), 131.57-144.78 (137.92); wing, 80.52- 

 86.87 (82.80); tail, 58.93-68.58 (62.99); exposed culmen, 8.13-10.41 

 (8.89); depth of bill at base, 7.37-7.87 (7. 62); tarsus, 16.26-17.27 (16.51); 

 middle toe, 8.13-9.40 (8.64).' 



V Resident in Greenland, where breeding north to latitude 70°; Ice- 

 land; Spitzbergen; Jan Mayen Land. In winter southwestward to 

 Ungava (Fort Chime, September 1 to Maj^ 15), irregularly to west 

 side of Hudson Bay (Fort Churchill), Ontario (Gait, 2 specimens, 

 Januarj^, 1860); also occurring accidentally in England (Whitburn, 1 

 specimen, April 24, 1855) and France (Abbeville). 



FringUla borealis (not Linaria borealis Yieillot) Temminck, Man. d'Orn., iii, 1835, 

 264. — Wernek, Atlas, Granivores, 1827, pi. 17. — Selys-Longchamps, Faune 

 Beige, 1842, 73. 



[Linaria'] borealis (not Vieillot) Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 110, no. 7653, part 

 (Greenland). 



lAnota hornemannii Holboll, Naturh. Tidsskr., iv, 1843, 398 (Greenland). — Sal- 

 via, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 206. 



Linota hornemanni Newton, ed. Yarrell'sHist. Brit. Birds, ii, 1876-82, 143, 144, in 

 text. — Drbssbe, Birds Europe, pts. 55, 56, 1876 (p. 55), part, pi. 189, fig. 2, pi. 

 190, upper fig. (Greenland, Iceland, Spitzbergen, Whitburn, England, 1 spec. 

 Apr. 24, 1855; Abbeville, France, 1 spec). — British Ornithologists' Union, 

 List Brit. Birds, 1883, 54.— Brooks, Ibis, 1883, 383, 384 (Gait, Ontario, 2 speci- 

 mens Jan., 1860; crit.). — Clarke, ZoDlogist, 1890, 9 (Jan Mayen Land; 

 Iceland; see Fischer and Pelzeln, Arzt. osterreich. Exp. Jan Mayen, 1886, — ). 



[Linarial hornemanni Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 110, no. 7654 (excl. syn. rostra- 

 tus Coues). 



' Thirteen specimens. ^ Twelve specimens. 



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