BIRDS—FRINGILLIDAE-AEGIOTHUS CANESCENS. 
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g p q Hi _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 less vivid, and 
with dusky streaks. Rest of uftder 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. 
Hab .—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 he found within our limits. This 
is much larger, has the tail 3|- inches long instead of ; 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. liolbolli , 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 
Q 
Carlisle, Pa_ 
Dec. 6, 1842. 
S. F. Baird__ 
5. 00 
8.42 
2. 75 
821 
s 
_do_ 
Oct. 20, 1842_ 
____do..... 
5. 50 
8. 50 
2. 83 
900 
J 1 
_do_ 
Dec. 6, 1842. 
_do__ 
5. 50 
9. 00 
3. 08 
494 
New York__„_ 
__ do__ 
1588 
Boston__ 
7419 
Cleveland, Ohio._ . 
Dr. .T. P. Kirtlnnd_ 
5824 
Racine, Wib_ 
1852. 
9225 
England __ 
S. F. Baird 
AEGIOTHUS CANESCENS, Caban is. 
Mealy Red Poll. 
Lmaria canescens, Gould, “ Birds Europe, Tab. 193.” 
Linotu canescens, Bonap. List, 1838. 
Jlcanthis canescens, Bon. Conspectus, 1850, 541.— Bon. & Schlegel, Mon. Loxiens, Tab. li. 
Jlegiolhus canescens, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1851, 161. 
“Fringilla borealis, Temminck, 1835. Not ofYieillot.” Bonaparte. 
? Fringilla borealis, Aud. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 87 ; pi. 400. 
ILinariaborealis, Aud. Birds Amer III, 1841, 120 ; pi. 178. 
“Linaria hornemanni, Holboll, Ivroyer 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, 6 inches ; tail, 3.17. 
Hab .—Greenland. 
The preceding description, taken chiefly from Bonaparte, is of a species which doubtless occurs 
m the northern portion of our continent, and is introduced for the purpose of completing the 
