BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



703 



A(7Hlf fe?7iale.— Length (skins), 90-itr) (92.!»): winrr. 52.5-55 (53.5); 

 tail, 38-42 (39.7); exposed culmen, 7-9 (7.9); tarsus, 10-18 (16.8); 

 middle toe, 8-9 (8.6).« 



AVostcni North America, from l^ocky ^Nloantains to the Pacific 

 coast, southward in winter over highlands of Mexico to elevated dis- 

 tricts of Guatemala; breeding from Colorado (near timlxn- line), eastern 

 Oreo-on (mountains near Fort Klamath), Sierra Nevada (south to 

 Mount Whitney), Mount Shasta, etc., northward to Kenai Peninsula 

 and Kadiak Island, Alaska. 



Tiegidm erislatus (not of Vieillot) Townhknd, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 

 1839, 154 (Columbia R.). 



Jiegulns satrapa (not of Lichtenstein) Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. 

 Zuni and Col. R., 185.3, 67, part (New Mexico).— Henry, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., vii, 1855, 309 (New Mexico); xi, 1859, 106 (New Mexico).— 

 (?) ScLATEK, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 212 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz); I860, 

 25 (Orizal)a).— Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 227, part ( Fort Stei- 

 lacoom, Washington); Cat. N. Am. Birds;, lHrt9, no. 162, part; Review Am. 

 Birds, 1864, 65, part (Simiahmoo and Steilacoom, Washington; Fort ("rook, 

 n. CaUfornia). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 235 (Vancouver 

 I.). — Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 174 

 (Puget Sound, etc., Washington; resident). — Lord, Proc. Roy. Art. Inst. 

 Woolw., 1864, 114 (British Columbia).— Brown, Ibis, 1868, 420 (Vancouver 

 I.). — Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., i, 1869, 277, part 

 (Sitka; Kadiak).— Cooper, Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 32 (Montana); Orn. Cal., 

 1870, 32 (Sierra Nevada, 7,000 ft., Sept.).— Aiken, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 XV, 1872, 195 (Colorado).— RiDGWAY, Bull. Essex Inst., v, 1873, 179 (Colo- 

 rado); Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 410 (West Humboldt Mts., Nevada, 

 Sept.). — Ingersoll, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Clul), i, 1876, 78, part (breeding 

 habits, etc.). — Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 154 (Ari- 

 zona); List Birds Arizona, 1875, 154. — Bendire, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 1877, 111 (Camp Harney, Oregon, Nov.). — Salvin and Oodman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1879, 48 part (Orizaba; Tierra Fria, near City of ]\lex- 



« Ten specimens. 



Specimens from different localities average, respectively, as follows: 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Four adiilt ninles from Puget Souiul, Washington 



Four adult males from Sitka district, Alaska 



Two adult males from Kenai Peninsula, Alaska . , 



Four adult males from Kadiak, .\laska 



Three adult males from Montana 



Two adult males from southern Mexico 



FEMALES. 



Two adult females from California 



Three adult females from Washington 



Three adult females from British r(>luinl)ia , 



One adult female from Sitka 



One adult female from Kenai Peninsula , 



Wing. 



.55.2 

 54.3 

 54.5 

 5.5.5 

 54.5 

 .5(;. 2 



54.2 

 53.3 

 53.5 

 53.5 

 53 



Tail. 



40.1 



40 



39.7 



40.6 



40.5 



41.2 



41 



40.1 



38.5 



40 



39.5 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



6.8 

 7.1 



7.6 



7.5 

 7.6 

 8.3 

 8.5 



Tarsus. 



17.3 

 17.6 

 17. 5 

 17.2 

 16.6 

 17.2 



16.7 



17.1 



16.5 



17 



17.5 



Middle 

 toe. 



8.3 

 S.3 



8.5 

 8.7 

 8.5 

 8.7 



8.7 



8.6 



8.5 



9 



8.5 



