BIRDS OF KOETH AND MIDDLE AMEEIOA. 91 



Linaria alnorum magnirostris Mevbs, Journ. fiir Orn., 1880, 155. 



Linarta brunnescena Hombyee, Journ. fiir Orn., xxvii, April, 1879, 184, part (Swe- 

 den; Lapland). 



A.{canthis] intermedius Dybowski, Bull. Soc. France, 1883, 365, in text (Kamts- 

 chatka) . 



ACANTHIS LINARIA ROSTRATA fCoues). 

 GREATER REDPOLL. 



Similar to A. linaria holhadlii, with the same seasonal changes, etc. , 

 but much larger and with a relatively thicker and more obtuse bill; 

 coloration rather darker and browner, with the dusky stripes on sides 

 and flanks usually heavier or broader; adult male with the pink or red 

 of chest, etc., apparently less extensive as well as less intense. 



Adult mafe.— Length (skins), 127.00-151.89 (138.18); wing, 77.47- 

 83.82 (80.62); tail, 55.37-65.58 (59.94); exposed culmen, 8.89-10.41 

 (9.91); depth of bill at base, 7.37-7.87 (7.62); tarsus, 15.75-17.53 

 (16.51); middle toe, 9.14-10.41 (9.65).^ 



A&itlt female.— Length (skins), 137.00-143.51 (133.60); wing, 75.69- 

 81.28 (78.23); tail, 56.39-62.99 (58.67); exposed culmen, 8.89-10.67 

 (9.65); depth of bill at base, 7.11-7.87 (7.62); tarsus, 15.24-17.53 

 (16.26); middle toe, 8.64-10.16 (9.14).' 



Breeding and resident in Greenland; in winter southwestward through 

 Ungava (Fort Chimo, Sept. 1 to May 1), Labrador, and Provinces of 

 Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba to Massachusetts (common), south- 

 eastern New York (lower Hudson Valley), northern Indiana (Starke 

 Co.), Michigan, northern Illinois (Lake Co.), Colorado (near Mag- 

 nolia), etc. 



Fringilla linaria (not of Linnseus) Reinhardt, Ibis, 1861, 7 (Greenland). 

 ^giothus rostraius Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 378 (s. Greenland; U. S. 

 Nat. Mus.). — Eeinhaedt, Vid. Medd. For. Kjobenhavn, 1875, 187 (Green- 

 land; crit. ). 

 Acanthis linaria rostrata Stejt^egeb., Auk, i, Apr., 1884, 153 (crit.; synonymy). — 

 Turner, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 240 (Fort Chimo, Ungava, Sept. 1 to 

 May 1). — American Oknithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 5286. — 

 Thompson, Trans. Canad. Inst., iii, 1892, 29 (Toronto, Feb.; Lome Park, 

 Ontario, Nov.).— Powers, Auk, xiv, 1897^ 219 (Gardiner, Maine, Deo. 30).— 

 Knight, Bull. no. 3, Univ. Maine, 1897, 93 (Gardiner, Kennebec Co., Maine, 

 Dec. 30, 1896).— Butler, Birds Indiana, 1897, 924 (Starke Co., Indiana, 1 

 spec. Jan. 1). — Cooke, Bull. no. 44, Colorado A-gric. Coll., 1898, 165 (near 

 Magnolia, Colorado, alt. 7,500 ft., 1 spec. Dec. 9, 1895). 

 A. Icanthus] linaria rostrata Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 397. 

 lAcanthis IbiaHa.] Subsp. /3. A canihis rostrata Ska-rpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 



1888, 251 (Lichtenfels, Greenland; Chicago, Illinois). 

 ILinarial hornemanni (not Linota homemanni Holboll) Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 



110, no. 7654, part. 

 Linota hornemanni (not of HolbOU) Dresser, Birds Europe, pt. Ivi, 1876, pi. 190, 

 lower fig. (vol. iv, p. 55, part). 



' Fifteen specimens. ^ Nine specimens. 



