MEALY EEDPOLL. {arctic race.) 



LINOTA HO RNEMANNI, Holboll. 



Linota hornemanni, Holboll, Naturh. Tidssk. iv. p. 398 

 (1843) ; Van: ed. 4, ii. pp. 141, 143 ; Dresser, iv. 

 p. 55. 



At the time of the publication of Mr. H. Saunders's 

 article on the Mealy Redpoll in the ' Manual of British 

 Birds ' only one specimen of the race here represented 

 had been recorded as having occurred in Great Britain ; 

 this individual was knocked down on the sea-banks 

 near "Whitburn, and was in the collection of the late 

 John Hancock, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, who described and 

 figured it in his ' Catalogue of the Birds of Northum- 

 berland and Durham ' (p. 54, pi. 5), and there states 

 that it was killed on April 24th, 1855. I am indebted 

 to the courtesy of Doctor II. Bendelack Hewetson 

 for the loan of tw r o skins of this form, obtained in 

 October 1883 and October 1893, at Easington, York- 

 shire ; from the former of these the accompanying 

 Plate was taken. 



This race of Redpoll is said to be resident in Green- 

 land, and there are records of its occasional occurrence 



