RED-POLL LINNET. 319 
This species is generally considered more northerly in its range than 
the Red Crossbill, Its habitual breeding range is from Northern New 
England northward; it is also found in Wyoming insummer. Audubon 
mentions its breeding in Pennsylvania in summer, but this was excep- 
tional. In its habits it resembles the preceding. 
The nest is described as composed of spruce twigs and lichens, lined 
with hair and shreds of bark. The eggs are pale-blue, with fine dots of 
black and ashy-lilac at the larger end. 
Genus AAGIOTHUS. Cabanis. 
Bill very short, conical, extremely acute, the outlines even concave, base of upper 
mandible and nostrils concealed by bristly feathers, middle of mandible with several 
parallel ridges. Wings very long, reaching to the middie of the forked tail, second qaill 
a little the longest. Middle toe and claw as long as the tarsus; inner lateral toe rather 
the longer; hind claw longer than its digit. 
ALGIoTHUS LINARIA (L.) Cab. 
ted-poll Linnet. 
Fringilla linaria, KIRTLAND, Ohiv Geolog. Surv , 1532, 164, 183; Fam. Visitor, i, 1850, 63. 
—RuEAD, Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Se. vi, 1803, 399. 
Aegiothus linaria, BAIRD, P. RR. Rep., ix, 1808, 429.—WueEatTon, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 
1860, 1801, 360; R-print, 3. 
. ZEgiothus linaria, WHEATON, Food of Birds, ete , Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 1875, 566; 
Reprint, 6. 
Aigiothus linarius, BAIRD, BREWsR and Rincway, N. A. Birds, i, 1874, 497. 
Algoithus (error) linaria, LANGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1077, 8; Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. 
Hist., i, 1878, 1145 Reprint, 5. 
Aigoithus (error) linarius, LANGDON, Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 175 ; 
Reprint, 9. 
Red-poll, KikTLAND, Fam. Visitor, i, 1850, 120, 140, 148; Obio Farmer, ix, 1860, 91. 
Fringilla linaria, LINNAZUS, Syst. Nat., 1, 1766, 322. 
Aigiothus inarius, CABANIS, Mus Hein., L38oi, 164. 
Upper parts streaked with dusky and flaxea in about equal amounis, rump white or 
rosey, streaked with dusky; below, streaked on the sides, belly dull white; bill mostly 
yellow; feet blackish. Length, 54-52; wing, «2-3; tail, ¢<}--4. 
Habitat, northern regions of both Hemispheres, ranging irregularly southward in 
winter to the Middle States or beyond, and to corresponding latitudes in the West. 
Tolerably regular winter resident in Northern Ohio, casual in other 
portions of the State. Dr. Kirtland made their acquaintance about 
1835-6, when he states that they appeared in flocks on his premises. 
He states that they were unusually abundant in the winter of 1849-50, 
when they were slow in taking their departure, remaining in large 
flocks until April. Mr. Read gives it as abundant during extremely 
cold weather. I have seen specimens from Sandusky, and Mr. Langdon 
