BIEDS FKINGILLIDAE AEGIOTHUS CANESCENS. 
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Sp. Ch.— Above light yellowish, each feather streaked with dark brown. Crown dark crimson. Upper part of breast and 
sides of the body tinged with a lighter tint of the same ; the rump and under tail coverts also, similar, but still Ipss vivid, and 
with dusky streaks. Rest of under parts white, streaked on the sides with brown. Loral region and chin dusky; cheeks, 
(brightest over the eye,) and a narrow front, whitish. Wing feathers edged externally, and tail feathers all round with white. 
Two yellowish white bands across the wing coverts; secondaries and tertiaries edged broadly with the same. Bill yellowish , 
tinged with brown on the culmen and gonys ; the basal bristles brown, reaching over half the bill. Length, 5 50; wing, 3.10 ; 
tail, 2.70. 
Hah, — Throughout eastern North America, coming south in winter. Washington Territory. — (Cooper.) 
The specimen described above is a male, (900) in winter dress. The spring plumage has much 
more of the red. The female winter specimens lack the rose of the under parts and rump ; the 
breast is streaked across with dusky. 
I have not met with any specimens apparently indicative of more than one North American 
species, although the A. canescens, of Greenland, may possibly be found within our limits. This 
is much larger, has the tail 3J- inches long instead of 2\ ; the rump never with dusky streaks. 
The A. rufescens, of Europe differs in the smaller size, the tail scarcely two inches long, the 
rump tinged with rufous. The A. holbblli, of Europe, has a very large yellow bill, a large 
gular patch and the lores, black. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When collected. Whence obtained. 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing. 
902 
821 
900 
494 
1588 
7419 
5824 
9225 
Q 
3 
3 
Carlisle, Pa... 
do 
Dec. 6, 1842 
S. F. Baird 
5. 00 
5.50 
5. 50 
8. 42 
8.50 
9. 00 
2.75 
2. 83 
3. 08 
Oct. 20, 1842 
do 
Dec. 6. 1842 
do 
do 
Boston 
Cleveland, Ohio 
Dr. J. P. Kirtland 
.Racine, Wib 
1852 
Dr. P. R. Hoy 
England . 
S. F. Baird ..„„ 
AEGIOTHUS CANESCENS, Cab an is. 
Mealy Red Poll. 
Linaria canescens , Gould, " Birds Europe, Tab. 193. " 
Linola canescens, Bonap. List, 1838. 
Jicanthis canescens , Bon Conspectus, 1850, 541. — Bon. & Schlegel, Mon. Loxiens, Tab. li. 
Aegiolhns canescens, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1851, 161. 
"Fringilla borealis, Temminck, 1835. Not of Vieillot. " Bonaparte. 
tFrvngilla borealis, Aud. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 87 ; pi. 400. 
iLinaria borealis, Aud. Birds Amer III, 1841, 120 ; pi. 178. 
"Linaria hornemanni, Holboll, Kroyer Nat. Tidskr. 1843." 
Sp. Ch. — Size large. Bill short. Claws elongated. Rump white, (in the spring male tinged with rose,) never streaked ; the 
quills broadly margined with white. Tail lengthened. Length, G inches ; tail, 3.17. 
Hah. — Greenland. 
The preceding description, taken chiefly from Bonaparte, is of a species which doubtless occurs 
in the northern portion of our continent, and is introduced for the purpose of completing the 
