NORTHERN REDPOLE. 
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The next notice of it is in the first edition of 
Mr Selby’s British Birds, where it is figured and 
described as a variety of the Lesser Redpole, 
from a specimen in our own collection, shot near 
Edinburgh, and which is now before us. More 
lately, British specimens have been described by 
Mr Eyton and Mr Yarrell, under Mr Gould’s 
title of Linaria catiescens ; the bird itself being 
beautifully represented in the last named orni- 
thologist’s “ Birds of Europe.” By our modern 
ornithologists the Continental species are con- 
sidered identical with those of Britain, and also 
with those brought from North America ; but on 
the other hand, the Prince of Musignano, in his 
last comparative list, considers that there are two 
European species, the L. canescens, Gould, and 
the L. borealis of Savi ; the latter only being 
also common to the North American Fauna. In 
these circumstances it will be seen that there may 
be some difficulty in referring the bird now 
before us to these two species of the Prince’s list, 
and consequently to its distribution. We have, 
therefore, confined our synonims to those of 
British authors describing from British birds, 
though it is possible, in doing this, that we may 
be now overlooking the circumstance that the 
Prince’s two species may be both good ones, and 
both present occasionally in Britain. 
Of the habits of this Linnet we do not yet know 
much. It is known to the London bird-catchers 
as distinct from the little species, and has been 
noted as occurring abundantly some years, and 
