82 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Linaria hornemanni Hombyek, Journ. fiir Orn., xxxiii, April, 1879, 182 (crit.). 



F.lringilla] hornemanni Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 372. 



Fringilla hornemanni Beebobm, Hist. Brit, Birds, ii, 1884, 117. 



jEgiothus hornemanni CouES, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 209. 



^. Igiothus} hornemanni CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 353. 



Acanthis hornemanni Dresser, Birds Europe, iv, 1871-1881, 55 (descr. eggs).— 



Turner, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 239 (Fort Chimo, Ungava, Sept. 



1 to May 15). 

 Acanthis hornemannii Ste.tneger, Auk, i, April, 1884, 152.— American Ornitholo- 



Gisrs' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 527.— (?)Clarke, Auk, vii, 1890, 322 



(Ft. Churchill, Hudson Bay).— McIlwraith, Birds Ontario, 1892, 300 (Gait, 



Ontario, small flock). 

 A. Icanthis] hornemannii Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 396. 

 [Acanthis exilipes.'] Subsp. a. Acanthis hornemanni Sharpe, Cat, Birds Brit. Mus., 



xii, 1888, 256. 

 Acanthis canescens (not Linaria canescens Gould) Bonaparte and Schlegel, Mon. 



des Loxiens, 1850, 47, pi. 51. 

 [Acanthiil caraesccres Bonaparte, Consp.Av.,i, 1850, 541 (Greenland). 

 A. legiothus] canescens Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, Aug., 1851, 161 (Greenland). 

 Aegiothus canescens Baird, Eep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 429 (excl. syn. part); 



Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 321. — Finsch, Zweite Deutsche Nordpolfahrt, ii, 



1874, 188, part (e. Greenland; crit.) . 

 JEgioihus canescens Coves, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861,388 (monogr.).— Baird, 



Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 498, part. — Ridgway, 



Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 178. 

 [JUgiothus canescens} var. canescens Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's 



Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 493. 

 iiVinj/iSa canescens Reinhardt, Ibis, 1861, 7 (Greenland; resident). 

 Linota canescens Newton, Man. Nat. Hist. Greenland, 1875, 99 (Franz- Josefs Fjord, 



Greenland; breeding n. of lat. 70°). 

 Acanthis hornemanni typica Brewster, Auk, iv, April, 1887, 164, in text. 

 Linota linaria (not FringUla linaria Linnteus) Newton, in Baring Gould's Ice- 

 land, 1863, 409, part. 

 F. [ringilla] linaria (not of Linnseus) Newton, Ibis, 1865, 502, in text (Spitz- 



bergen). 

 Aegiothus Hnanus Finsch, Abh. Nat. Brem., 1874, 104, part(s. w. Greenland; crit.). 



ACANTHIS HORNEMANNII EXILIPES (Coues). 

 HOARY REDPOLL. 



Similar in coloration to A. h. hornemannii, but very much smaller and 

 averaging somewhat darker; rump less extensively white; sides, flanks, 

 and under tail-coverts more frequently streaked with dusky, and pink 

 of chest and rump in adult male averaging decidedly deeper, that of 

 the chest also usually more extended. (Sexual and seasonal differences 

 exactly the same as in A. h. hornemannii.) 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 116.59-137.16 (126.49); wing, 72.39- 

 77.98 (75.18); tail, 64.10-63.50 (57.40); exposed culmen, 6.86-8.64 

 (7.87); depth of bill at base, 5.84-6.86 (6.35); tarsus, 13.46-15.24 

 (14.48); middle toe, 7.11-8.38 (7.87).' 



' Thirty-one specimens. 



