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Keejik Village, Lake Clark, July 24; observations made near the 

 headwaters of Chulitna River; and several seen at Ikwok Village, 

 on Nushagak River, September 5. McKay obtained a specimen 

 on Nushagak River and two at Lake Aleknagik. Osgood obtained 

 2 specimens at Tyonek, Cook Inlet, and he mentions 2 others taken 

 there by Bischoff. 



Friedmann (1935) records a specimen taken on Kodiak Island 

 by Reichenow, October 22, 1906. Cahalane (1943) found the 

 rusty blackbird to be abundant at Kodiak in the fall of 1940. 



Family FRINGILLIDAE 



Pinicola enucleator: Pine Grosbeak 

 Pinicola enucleator alascensis 



The type specimen of the Alaska pine grosbeak (No. 86510, 

 U. S. National Museum) was taken by McKay near Nushagak on 

 June 9, 1881, and he obtained others on Nushagak River and 

 Lake Aleknagik. Hanna obtained two specimens at Ahyoowaytha 

 Creek and two on Kakwok River in 1912. We found the skeleton 

 of a female at Snag Point, Nushagak River, on May 25, 1936. 



Pinicola enucleator flammula 



Specimens from Kodiak and other localities along the coast 

 to Sitka were compared with a series from Bristol Bay and in- 

 terior Alaska. The colors are confusing, but the coastal birds, 

 including those from Kodiak, have larger bills. Thus we find 

 still another subspecies on Kodiak that apparently has been de- 

 rived from the southern Alaskan coast, rather than from the 

 north. 



At least eight specimens from Kodiak were available for study, 

 collected by Panshin, Ridgway, Osgood, and R. H. Beck. In 1940, 

 Gabrielson noted the bird on Kodiak and Afognak Islands. Howell 

 also observed this grosbeak on Kodiak, and, on June 9, 1944, he 

 found a nest with three fresh eggs; he obtained a specimen on 

 Kodiak, November 12, 1944. 



Leucosticte tephrocofis: Gray-crowned Rosy Finch 



For a proper understanding of the relationships of the rosy 

 finches of the Alaska Peninsula, Kodiak, and Aleutian Islands, it 

 became necessary to examine, as a whole, the group occupying 

 Alaska and the Bering Sea region. As a result of this study, the 

 group appears more closely knit than previous taxonomic usage 



