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NORTHERN PAL^ARCTIC BULLFINCHES. 



1816. — PjjrrhuJa rufa Kocii, Bair. Zool., I, p. 2'2T. 



18'20. — Fijrrhiila nilgarh Temm., Man. d'Oni., 2 ed., I, p. 330. — de Selys, Fauiie Beige 



(p. 7f ) (1H42).— Deglaxi) and Gerhe, Oru. Eur., 2 ed., I, p. 250 (1G7). 

 1831. — ri/rrltiila gcnnainca Breh.m, Handb. Viig. Deutsclil., p. 252. — Homeyer, J. f. 



Orn., 1879, p. 177, 

 1831. — Pyrrhula ptregrina Breh.m. Handb. Vog. Deutschl., p. 253. — Homeyer, J. f. 



Oru., 1880, p. 154. 

 1839.— Pjirrhula pileaia MACGiLL.,Hist. Brit. B., I, p. 407. 

 1849. — Pi/rrhnia vulgarh minor Te.mm. & SCHLBG., Fauu. Jap. Av., p. 91. 

 ISbo. — Pyrrhula mhior Brehm, Naumauuia, 1855, p. 276. 

 l!r56. — Pyrrhula coccinea a rubicUIa Bon.\p., Cat. Parzud., p. 4. 



Pyrrhula pyrrhula kamtschatica (Tacz.). 



1826. — Pyrrhula rnbiciUa Pai.las, Zoogr. Ross. As., II, p. 7 (part), (riec GCld.). — 



KiTTLiTZ, DenkwUrd., I, p. 322 (1858). 

 1882. — Pyrrhula kamtwhatlca Taczanowski, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1882, p. 395- 



Journ. f. Orn., 1884, p. 408 (1885). 

 1883. — Pyrrhula kamtschatkensis Dybowski, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1883, p. 367. 

 1884. — Pyrrhula rubidlla kamtschatkensis Dybow. & Tacz.\n., Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr.. 



1884, p. Estr., p. 2. 



1885. — Pyrrhula pyrrhula kamischatica Stejneger, Res. Orn. Explor. Kamtcb., p. 322. 

 1887. — Pyrrhula vulgaris kamtschatica Seebohm, Ibis, 1887, p. 101. 



Since compiling tbe Synopsis of Kamtscbatkau birds (L c), I bave 

 received from my friend Capt. J. E. Hunter four specimens of tbe pres- 

 ent bird, tbree males and one female. Considering tbe apparent isola. 

 tion of its babitat it is ratber astonisbiug to find it so closely allied to 

 P. pyrrhula. Tbe differentiation, bowever, is like tbat of most of tbe 

 peculiar Kamtscbatkau forms, tbe color being purer and tbe wbite more 

 extended, in tbis particular case especially on tbe wing-band. Tbe red 

 of tbe under parts can be matcbed by Scandinavian specimens, but tbe 

 ear-coverts show more of tbat peculiar silvery gloss so bigbly developed 

 in tbe Japanese species, P. griseiventris. Tbe females differ more from 

 tbe western form, tbe back being nearly a pure cinereous with tbe 

 faintest possible wash of brownish on tbe lower back. In both sexes 

 tbe red spot on tbe inner tertial is present, though on an average some- 

 what paler than in true P. pyrrhula. In size tbe present form appears 

 to be intermediate between P. vyrrhida and P. europaa^ a^ evidenced 

 by the following 



Measurements. 



