360 Mr. W. E. Brooks on the Genus Acanthis. 
Some people might be inclined to say that difference of 
locality would alter the size ; but those of which I have given 
the measurements are all from the same place, Ungava, 
where four species of Acanthis are found. 
In his paper on the genus Acanthis ('The Auk/ 1881), 
Dr. Stejneger speaks of another species of Acanthis — A. 
rostrata, Coues. This is also found in Ungava, and down along 
the coast to the more northern United States. Of this species 
I have seen two males and two females collected near Fort 
Chimo, Ungava. It is a fine robust bird, almost equalling 
A. hornemanni in size. The two males had wings 3*40 and 
3T0, and the two females 3*10 and 3*00. The hill is of a 
peculiar form, convex on the outlines, and shaped more like 
a Sparrow’s than a Redpoll’s. The coloration is like that of 
A. linaria , except that the streaks below are darker and 
bolder, and on the whole it is not such a mealy-looking bird 
as A. linaria. 
If it should be said that the white tone of A. hornemanni is 
due to residence in very northern latitudes, here we have the 
dark A. rostrata inhabiting the very same country. Let it 
be remembered that it is a Greenland bird, found also in 
North-east America, i. e. Labrador. One of the males was 
a red May bird collected at Fort Chimo, Ungava. The red 
on the breast did not reach so far down as in A. linaria and 
ended abruptly. The upper and lower tail-coverts are 
strongly streaked in this species; but it is the excessively 
heavy flank-streaking that strikes one so forcibly at first 
sight. Briefly it may be described as a large, dark, heavily 
streaked Redpoll with a Sparrow-like bill, in contradistinc¬ 
tion to the large white Redpoll, A. hornemanni , with a true 
Redpoll bill. Those who prefer to consider it a subspecies 
may do so; but to my eye it is so thoroughly distinct that I 
should never dream of confounding it with anything else. 
Speaking of Acanthis rostrata , Dr. Stejneger says (' The 
Auk/ 1884, pp. 149-150):—“Mr. William Brewster has, in a 
very instructive and interesting memoir ' On Holboll’s Red- 
PolR (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 1883, pp. 95-99), expressed 
the suspicion that A. linaria and what he calls A. holboelli 'are 
