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Genus ACANTHIS Bechstein. 



Acanthis Bechst. Orn. Tasch. Deutschl. 1803, 125. Type, 

 Fringilla linaria Linn. 



527. Acanthis hornemannii (Holb.). 

 Greenland Redpoll. 



Linota hornemannii Holboll, Naturh. Tidskr. IV. 1843, 39^- 

 Acanthis hornemannii Stejn. Auk, I. April, 1884, 152. 



[B321, C— , R 178, C 209.] 



Geog. Dist.— Greenland and eastern Arctic America. 



527 a. Acanthis hornemannii exilipes (Coues). 

 Hoary Redpoll. 



^giothus exilipes Coves, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 186 1, 385. 

 Acanthis hornemannii exilipes Stejn. Auk, I. April, 1884, 152. 



[B— , C 146^, R 178a, C 2ro.] 



Geog. Dist. — Arctic America and northeastern Asia, south in 

 winter (rarely ? ) to the northern border of the United States. 



628. Acanthis linaria (Linn.). 

 Redpoll. 



Fringilla linaria Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 182. 

 Acanthis linaria Bonap. & Schleg. Mon. Lox. 1850, 48. 

 [B 320, C 146, \sfia, R 179, C 207.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Northern portions of northern hemisphere, south 

 irregularly in winter, in North America, to the middle United States 

 (Virginia, Kansas, southeastern Oregon). 



628 a. Acanthis linaria holbcellii (Brehm). 

 Holbiill's Redpoll. 



Linaria holbcellii Brehm. Handb. Vog. Deutschl. 183 1, 280. 

 Acanthis linaria /3. holbcellii Dubois, Consp. Av. Europ. 1871, 18. 

 [B — , C — , R \']()a,part, C 208, /ar/.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Northern portions of northern hemisphere, near the 

 seacoast, south in winter to northern New York and Massachusetts. 



