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Linota emlipes Dresser, Birds Europe, pts. 57, 58, 1877, 51, pi. 189, fig. 1.— Newton, 

 Zoologist, 1877, 6.— Beooks, Ibis, 1885, 382 (crit. ). 



Acanthis exilipes Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. , xii, 1888, 254 (localities in Finmark, 

 Norway, Lapland, Russia, and Siberia). 



Linaria dbiriea (not of Boie, 1822), "Severzow (in litt.)," Homeyer, Journ. fiir 

 Orn., xxvii, April, 1879, 185 (Onon and Baikal, Siberia; coll. von Homeyer). 



Linota sibirica Homeyee and Tancre, Mitt. Orn. Yer. Wien, 1883, 89 (crit.). 



L. linaria] pallescens Homeyer, Journ. fiir Orn., xxviii, Apr., 1880, 156 (= L. sibir- 

 ica Homeyer, 1879). 



Acanthis hornemannii pallescens Stejnegeh, Auk, i, Apr., 1884, 153. 



ACANTHIS LINARIA LINARIA (Linnaeus). 

 REDPOLL, 



About the size of A. hornemannii exilipes, but wing and tail (especially 

 the latter) averaging shorter, bill and toes decidedlj- longer, and colora- 

 tion much darker; the rump never white, and the under tail-coverts 

 always conspicuously streaked with dusky. 



Aokilt Triolein hreeding dress. — Forehead (narrowly) dusky; crown 

 bright poppy red; general color of remaining upper parts dark gray- 

 ish brown or sepia, indistinctly streaked with darker, and more or less 

 streaked with grayish white, especially on hindneck, lower back, and 

 median portion of upper back; rump mixed pink and grayish white, 

 broadly streaked with dusky; upper tail-coverts grayish brown edged 

 with paler; wings and tail dusky grayish brown, the remiges and 

 rectrices narrowly edged with pale brownish gray or dull grayish 

 white, the middle and greater wing-coverts narrowly tipped with 

 grayish white; chin and upper portion of throat dusky; cheeks, lower 

 throat, chest, and sides of breast deep peach-blossom pink, often tinged 

 with bright poppy red; rest of under parts white, the sides, flanks, 

 and under tail-coverts broadly streaked with dusky; bill horn color 

 basally, dusky at tip; legs and feet dusky brown or blackish. 



Adult male in winter plumage. — Much lighter colored than in sum- 

 mer, the prevailing color of back, scapulars, and hindneck light, more 

 or less buffy grayish brown, distinctly streaked with dusky; the lower 

 back and rump streaked with dusky and whitish (the latter often more 

 or less mixed with pink on lower rump) ; the wing-bands and lighter 

 edgings of remiges, etc., more or less inclining to buffy; the pink of 

 chest, etc., paler (rose pink), and the bill light yellow with black at 

 tip or along terminal portions of culmen and gonys. 



Adult female {and some apparently adult males). — Similar to the 

 male, but without any pink or red on the' under parts, the portions so 

 colored on the male being pale buffy or whitish; the seasonal differ- 

 ences exactly as in the adult male. 



Young. — No red on crown, the whole pileum being broadly streaked 

 with duskj'^ and pale grayish buffy; sides of throat, chest, and sides of 



