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ill liis “Birds of Europe,” M'liich is considered by some 
to be only a variety of F. borealis; and Mr. Morris, 
in his “History of British Birds,” has figured the iNIcaly 
Bedpole under Gould’s naiiic of Linaria canescens. 
As long ago however as 1S42, M. Selys I)c Ijong- 
chainps, in his “Faune Beige,” p. 73, remarked that 
“i^. borealis must not be confounded with F. canescens, 
Avhich differs always from it, in that the whole rump 
is of a pure white above, but it has a much stronger 
make, a very long tail, and the ground colour of the 
plumage white, tinted with brown.” 
This species inhabits Greenland, and is found occa- 
sionally in Belgium and the north of France. 
M. Dubois, in his “Planches Coloriees des Oiseaux 
de la Belgique,” a work which I have before had 
occasion to speak of with favour, has the following notice 
of this bird, which I take the liberty, with the author’s 
kind permission, to transcribe: — '“The Tarin D’Holboll 
is very rare, and we have only very vague and very 
imperfect accounts about it. M^e are ignorant of its 
true country. It is only known that it conies from the 
north, and that it appears in Germany and Belgium. 
Nothing is known about the habits and nidification of 
this bird, but they probably do not differ from other 
species of the same genus. It is distinguished from its 
congeners by the body and beak being stronger, and 
the greater length of the wings. Many naturalists have 
made a special genus for this Tarin and the two other 
European species, but we cannot admit this distinction, 
as these Tarins do not differ in anything but the colour 
of the plumage The figures are taken from two 
species in the collection of M. De Selys-Longchamps.” 
The male has the vertex and forehead blood-red ; 
upper parts of neck and body whitish, with longitudinal 
