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Extreme northern portions of Europe, Asia, and North America; 

 Norway to Commander Islands, northern Japan, and islands off Arc- 

 tic coast of North America (Herschell Island, breeding); occasional 

 during migrations in portions of northeastern North America (vicinity 

 of Quebec; Lome Park, Ontario; North Bridgeton, Maine; Swamp- 

 scott, Massachusetts, etc.)' 



Passer linaria (not Fringilla linaria Linnaeus) Pallas, Zoogr. Eosso-Asiat., ii, 

 1826, 25, part. 



Linaria holboeUii Brehm, Handb. Vog. Deutschl. , 1831, 280 (middle Germany, 

 winter).— SuNDEV ALL, Ofv. K. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stockh., 1840, 59.— Fallon, 

 Ois. Belg., 1875, 105, footnote.— Homeyeh, Journ. fiir Orn., 1879, 183 (Pome- 

 rania; Thuringia; crit.). 



A. Icanihis] holbollii Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 541 (n. and w. Europe). 



ILinarial holboeUii Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 110, no. 7652. 



Acanihis holbollii Bonaparte and Schlegel, Mon. Loxiens, 1850, 50, pi. 53 (Ger- 

 many; Saxony; Belgium). 



Acanihis holboolli Selys-Longchamps, Rev. et Mag. Zool., 1857, 126. 



Aeg. [iothus'] holboeUii Cabanis, Mus. Hein.,i, Aug., 1851, 161, footnote. 



^■Egiothus holboelli Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 385 (monogr. ). 



Acanihis linaria /?. holbOUii Dubois, Consp. Av. Eur., 1871, 18. 



\_^giothii£ Unarius] var. holbolli Baihd, Brewer, and Bidgway, Hist. K. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 493, 494, part. 



M. [gioihusl I. {inaria'] holboelli Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 353, 

 part. 



ylcani/iis MioZK Taczanowski, Journ. fiir Orn., 1874, 324 (e. Siberia); Bull. See. 

 Zool. France, 1876, 180 (e. Siberia); Orn. Faun. Vost. Sibir., 1877, 40. 



A.{canthis'] holbolli Dybowski, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1883, 365 (Kamtscbatka). 



Acanihis linaria holboeUii Stejnegee, Auk, i, April, 1884, 153 (synonymy) ; Bull. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 29, 1885, 256 (Bering I., Kamtscbatka, breeding); Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus., X, 1887, 142 (Commander Islands, resident); xiv, 1891, 497 

 (Japan); xv, 1892, 354 (Hakodate, Japan). — American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 528a.— (?)Townsend, Cruise "Corwin," 1885 

 (1887), 93 (upper Kowak E., Alaska, July); Auk, iv, 1887, 12 (do.).— Brews- 

 ter, Auk, iv, 1887, 163 (Swampscott, Massachusetts, Mar. 26, 1883). — Cooke, 

 BirdMigr. Miss.Val., 1888, 181 (n. Illinois).— Thompson, Trans. Canad. Inst., 

 iii, 1892, 29 (Lorne Park, Ontario, Mar.).— Powers, Auk, xiv, 1897, 219 

 (North Bridgton, Maine, winter). — Knight, Bull. no. 3, Univ. Maine, 1897, 

 93 (North Bridgton, Cumberland Co., Maine, 1 spec. Nov. 25, 1878). 



A. \^canthia\ linaria holboeUii Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 397. 



\_Acanthis linaria.'] Subsp. a. Acanthis holboeUii Sharps, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xii, 1888, 250 (Norway; Finmark; Sweden; e. Siberia). 



Fringilla alnorum Brehm, Handb. Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 281. 



Fringilla linaria alnorum Sundevall, Sv. Vet.-Ak. Handl., 1840, 59. 



Fringilla canescens (not Linaria canescens Gould) Selys-Longchamps, Faune 

 Beige, 1842, 73. 



Imiaria longirostris '&KEnii, Naumannia, 1855, 277 {nomen nudum). 



Fringilla linaria magnirostris Holmgren, Skand. Fogl., i, 1866, 328. 



'The characters of this form being intermediate between those of A. linaria linaria 

 and A. linaria rostrata, it necessarily follows that intermediates or "intergrades" 

 between these two would be practically indistinguishable from ^1. I. holbcellii. Doubt- 

 less some of the specimens from the more eastern portions of North America are 

 really not true A. I. holbmllii, but with our present imperfect knowledge of the range 

 of the last it is scarcely possible to determine the question. 



