. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . iothus holhoelli,Ca?diielis holboellii,Siserin Grisatre,Grauer Leinfink, Brehm. De Selys; Faune ; ; Man., and Blasius; Die Wirbelthiere Of the the Germans. Specific Characters.—Rump pure white in all seasons, except in the breedingseason, when it has in the male a rose-red tint; tail six cents and a half,equal about to two inches and three fifths. Length five inches and threefifths.—Degland. The Lesser aixd Mealy Ee
. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . iothus holhoelli,Ca?diielis holboellii,Siserin Grisatre,Grauer Leinfink, Brehm. De Selys; Faune ; ; Man., and Blasius; Die Wirbelthiere Of the the Germans. Specific Characters.—Rump pure white in all seasons, except in the breedingseason, when it has in the male a rose-red tint; tail six cents and a half,equal about to two inches and three fifths. Length five inches and threefifths.—Degland. The Lesser aixd Mealy Eed^aoles are included in our British lists,both of them being frequently taken in this country. Mr. Gould has,however, figured a variety in his Birds of Europe, which is con-sidered by some to be only a variety of F. horealis; and Mr. Morris,in his History of British Birds, has figured the Mealy Redpoleunder Goulds name of Linaria canescens. As long ago, however, as 1842, M. de Selys-Longchamps, in hisFaune Beige, p. 73, remarked that i^. horealis must not be con-. HOLBOLLS REDPOLE. EOLBOLL8 BEDPOLE. 41 founded with F. canescens, wliich differs always from it, in that thewhole rump is of a pure white above, but it has a .much strongermake, a very long tail, and the ground colour of the plumage white,tinted with brown, This species inhabits Greenland, and is found occasionally in Belgiumand the north of France. M. Dubois, in his Planches Colorees des Oiseaux de la Belgique,a work which I have before had occasion to speak of with favour,has the following notice of this bird, which I take the liberty, withthe authors kind permission, to transcribe:—The Tarin d^Holbollis very rare, and we have only very vague and very imperfectaccounts about it. We are ignorant of its true country. It is onlyknown that it comes from the north, and that it appears in Germanyand Belgium. Nothing is known about the habits and nidificationof this bird, but they probably do not differ from other sp
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