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resid.)- — Dutcher, Auk, x, 1893, 276 (Flatlaiids, etc.. Long Island, Xew 

 York, 1848, 1864).— Neheling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 43, pi. 21, 

 fig. 4. — Knight, Bull. Univ. Maine, no. 3, 1897, 92 (resident). — Bctler, 

 Birds Indiana, 1897, 920 (s. in Avinter to Indianapolis and Bloomington). — 

 Brooks, Auk, xvii, 1900, 106 (Chilliwack, Brit. Columbia).— Armstrong, 

 Auk, xvii, 1900, 175 (Johnstown and Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Jan., Feb.). 



L. \_o.via'\ Icucoptcra Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 388. — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 

 1850, 527.— Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1851, 168.— Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., 

 viii, 1876, 105 (n. e. Illinois, winter). — Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 

 1884, 348.— Ridgway, ]\Ian. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 393. 



[Loxia} leucoptera Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 108, no. 7636. 



Loxia cucoptera (err. typ.) Nelson, Cruise "Corwin," 1881 (1883), 66 (Alaska). 



\^Loxia hifasciata.l Subsp. a. Loxia leucoptera Skaupe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.,xii, 

 1888, 443. , 



\_Loxia leucoptera] var. leucoptera Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 483. 



Crucirostra leucoptera Brehm, Isis, 1827, 720; Naumannia, iii, 1853, 254, fig. 20. 



Curvirostra leucoptera Wilson, Am. Orn., iv, 1811, 48, pi. 31, fig. 3. — Baird, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 427; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 319.— Dall 

 and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 281 (Nulato, Alaska, Feb. 8- 

 Apr. 9).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 149.— Stevenson, Prelim. Rep. U. S. Geol. 

 Surv. for 1871 (1872), 464 (Box Elder Creek, Wyoming) .—May nard, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H., xiv, 1872, 371 (Umbagog, Maine, and Franconia, New 

 Hampshire, breeding). 



\^Curvirostra^ leucoptera Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 129. 



Loxia (Crucirostra) leucoptera Naitmann, Yog. Deutsehl., pi. 385, fig. 4. 



Loxia falcirostra 'Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 371. — Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, 

 ii, 1843, 38. 



Loxia airata Homeyer, Journ. fiir Orn., xxvii, Apr., 1879, 179 (North America; 

 =male ad. in worn lireeding plumage; see Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 iii, 1890, 234). 



Genus PYRRHULA Brisson. 

 PyrrliKhc Brissox, Orn., iii, 1760, 308. (Type, J', enropu'u Yieillot.) 



Medium-sized or rather small arboreal finches of short, thick build, 

 very fluffy plumage, the bill verj^ short and thick (length, depth, and 

 breadth about equal), the plumage more or less varied, but plain. 



Bill very short, thick, and Ijroad, its width at base equal to or greater 

 than the length of the exposed culmen; the latter stronglj" convex, 

 indistinctly ridged; maxillary tomium with notch obsolete, the anterior 

 half concave, then slightly convex, the basal portion with a decided 

 deflection; mandibular tomium strongly convex terminally; the sub- 

 basal angle produced into a rounded, tooth-like process. Nostrils 

 entirely hidden b}^ a dense fringe of antrorse plumules. Rictal bristles 

 very strong. Wing rather long (about five times as long as tarsus), 

 rather pointed (four outermost primaries longest, the ninth longer than 

 the fifth); primaries exceeding secondaries b}" decidedly more than the 

 length of the tarsus. Tail shorter than wing by more than length of 

 tarsus, nearly even, about two-thirds hidden by the very long iq^per 

 coverts. Tarsus shorter than middle toe with claw; lateral toes rather 



