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Pi/rrhahi rocdnca, var. cass'mi Baird, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 316, i)l. 29, 

 fig. 1 (Nulato, Alaslva; U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Dall and Bannister, Trans. Clii- 

 cago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 281 (Nulato).— Coues, Clieck List, 1874, p. 127. 



Pyrrhula cossini Tristram, Ibis., April, 1871, 231 (orit.). — Cabaxis, Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1871, 318;, 1873, 315 (crit.).— Fixsch, Abh. Nat. Ver. Bremen, iii, 1872, 

 54. — Baird, Am. Nat., vii, 1873, 239 (Lake Baikal, Siljeria; crit.). — Taczan- 

 owsKi, Journ. fiir Orn., 1873, 95 (e. Siberia); 1874, 39 (crit.).— Coues, 

 Check List, 1873, no. 138; 2d ed., 1882, no. 191.- Baird, Brewer, and 

 EiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 457, pi. 23, fig. 11; iii, 1874, 508 

 (Lake Baikal, etc.). — Dybowski, Journ. fiir Orn., 1874, 39 (Kultuk, Dauria; 

 crit.). — Dresser, Birds Europe, iv, 1876, 100, part. — Ridgway, Nom. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1881, no. 167. — American Orxithologists' Uxiox, Check List, 



1886, no. 516.— Turner, Contr. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 1886, 169, pi. 7.— Nelson, 

 Eep. NafHist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 172.— Stejxeger, Proc.U. S. Nat. Mus.,x, 



1887, 104 (synonymy; crit.).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.,xii, 1888, 451 

 (Onon River and Kultuk, Lake Baikal, Siberia). 



[Pyrrlada'] cassinii Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 128. 



P.[yrrhula'\ cassini Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 344. — Ridgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 389. 



Pyrrhula cineracea Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., xx, July, 1872, 316 (Lake Baikal, 

 e. Siberia; Berlin Mus.); 1873, 314 (crit.); 1877, 223.— Dybowski, Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1874, 40, pi. 1 (crit.). — Severzow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1875, 173. — 

 Taczanowski, Journ. fiir Orn., 1875, 254 (Ussuri); 1881, 185 (Kultuk, 

 Dauria; Ussuri); Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, 183; 1880, 138.— Gould, Birds 

 Asia, V, 1875, pi. 40. — Dresser, Birds Europe, iv, 1876, 100, part. — Homeyer, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1879, 178 (crit.). — Stejxeger, N. Mag. Naturv., 1881, 115. — 

 BoLAU, Journ. fiir Orn., 1882, 334. — Seebohm, Ibis, 1882, 424 (Krasnoyarsk, 

 Onon River, Siberia; Askold Island, near Vladivostok; Turkestan; Asia 

 Minor) . 



Pyrrhula nipalensis (not of Hodgson) Severzow, Turkest. Jevotn., 1873, 64, 117. 



Pyrrhula cineracea pallida Seebohm, Ibis, 5th ser., v, Jan., 1887, 101, in text 

 (Altai Mountains and L^ssuri Valley). 



Genus PINICOLA Vieillot. 



PinicoZa Vieillot, Ois. Am.,' Sept., i, 1807, p. iv. (Type, P. n(6ra Vieillot, = 

 Loxia enucleaior Linn?eus. ) 



Strohilophaga\iEi\AjOT, Analyse, 1816, 29. (Type, Dwr-^ec Buff on, =io.r/« enu- 

 cleaior Linnaeus.) 



"Strobiliphaga Boie." 



Corythus CvxiER, Regne Anim., i, 1817, 301. (Type, Loxia enucleator l,mn?eds.) 



JSnwcZmtor Brehm, Vogelf., 1855, 89. (Type, Loxia enucleator hinnseus.) 



"Densiroslra Wood" (Gray, Gen. Birds, 1855, 81). 



Very large (more than 177 mm. long) arboreal finches with long wing.s 

 and tail; ver}^ short, broad, and thick bill with culmen strongh" curved 

 and tip of maxilla hooked, and small feet; the plmnage mostly plain, 

 without streaks or spots on under parts; the adult males in full plum- 

 age more or less red. 



Bill short, broad, and thick, with the culmen strongly convex from 

 the base, its width at the l)ase nearly equal to the distance from the 

 nostril to the tip of the maxilla; width of mandible at base little if any 

 greater than length of gonys, the latter nearly straight, with the basal 



