. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. FRINGILLINjE. 189. THE MEALY REDPOLL. LiNOTA LiNARiA (Linnseus). The logical separation of the various species or races of Redpolls is one which presents unusual difficulties. Dr. R. B. Sharpe considers (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xii. pp. 245-257) the typical Mealy Redpoll, Linota linaria, as a main stem, if I may use the term, with three subspecies, viz.: L. holboelli, rather larger and with a very much longer bill, found " in Northern Europe from Scandinavia to Eastern Siberia," and, as a wanderer, twice in Norfolk ; L. rostrata, "
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. FRINGILLINjE. 189. THE MEALY REDPOLL. LiNOTA LiNARiA (Linnseus). The logical separation of the various species or races of Redpolls is one which presents unusual difficulties. Dr. R. B. Sharpe considers (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xii. pp. 245-257) the typical Mealy Redpoll, Linota linaria, as a main stem, if I may use the term, with three subspecies, viz.: L. holboelli, rather larger and with a very much longer bill, found " in Northern Europe from Scandinavia to Eastern Siberia," and, as a wanderer, twice in Norfolk ; L. rostrata, " only distinguishable by the coarser striping of the under parts and by the stouter and more obtuse bill," inhabiting Greenland and North-eastern America; and our smaller and ruddier Lesser Redpoll, L. rufescens, of which more hereafter. L. exilipes, with greyer rump. Dr. Sharpe considers to be a good species, with a range extending from Northern Scandinavia across Siberia and throughout Northern America; while he puts down as a subspecies of L. exilipes the rather larger L. hornemanni, of Eastern North America, Greenland, Iceland, Jan Mayen and Spitsbergen, one example of which was recorded by Hancock, under the name of L. canescens, as having been obtained near Whitburn, Durham, on April 24th 1855, and another by Mr. Cordeaux from the Humber district (Zool. 1895, p. 58). The whole question is incrusted by a voluminous literature, in which hardly two authors agree as regards specific value; Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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