HOARY REDPOLL. 
MEALY REDPOLL. 
Acanthis HORNEMANII EXILIPES. 
Char. Above, dull white or pale brownish white, streaked with dusky 
brown ; rump white unstreaked, — in the male usually washed with pink; 
wings dusky brown with two white bars; below, dull white sparsely 
streaked with dusky; chin and throat dusky; breast delicate rose pink. 
Length 4% to 5 inches. 
Similar to A. iinaria, but colors paler, — the brown largely replaced by 
gray, and the red of a paler shade and more restricted. 
Nest. In a low tree or on the ground ; composed of grass and twigs 
lined with feathers. 
Eggs. 3-5 ; white tinged with blue or green, spotted with reddish 
brown ; 0.65 X 0.50. 
This species, so nearly allied to the last, is met with partly 
in the same remote boreal regions in the summer, but is of 
much more rare occurrence ; it is also found in the territory 
of Oregon, and stragglers have been obtained as far south as 
New Jersey and New York. In Maine it is less rare. These 
birds have a note very similar to the last species, but distinct. 
They are full of activity and caprice while engaged in feeding, 
making wide circles and deep undulations in their flight. Like 
