kEGrIOTHUS EXILIPES. 
AMERICAN MEALY RED-POLL. 
PEGIOTHUS EXILIPES. Coues. Proc. Phil. Acad. (1861), p. 385. 
This Linnet, so closely allied to the A. Linarius, is a native of Northern America, and has never to my knowledge been observed 
within the limits of the United States. It was elevated to a specific rank by Coues in his able Monograph of this family, published 
in the Proceedings, as above cpioted, and differs from its relative in the shape of its bill, white rump, and particularly small, weak 
feet, from which latter circumstance it derives its scientific name. 
The type specimen, an adult male, was obtained at Fort Simpson, on the 30th of April, 1860, but no record of its habits or 
economy has been given by its discoverers. 
It may be described as follows : 
A patch on fore-part of head, crimson. Occiput, and upper parts, yellowish, streaked with dusky. Rump, white. Primaries and 
secondaries, dark brown : the first, narrowly ; the latter, broadly tipped with white. The greater coverts also tipped with the same, 
forming transverse bars. Upper-tail coverts, dusky in their centres ; under-tail coverts, white. Under parts, white ; the throat and 
upper part of breast, in some specimens, tinged with rose. Flanks, streaked with dusky. Bill, horn-color at the base, blackish at the 
tip. Feet, black. 
The figures are life-size. 
