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hattan, and Emporia, e. Kansas, Nov. 5, 1885 to Jan. 26, 1886); Birds Colo- 

 rado, 1897, 97 (resident). — Goss, Birds Kansas, 1891, 420 (winter resident). — 

 Fisher, North Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 81 (s. Sierra Nevada, near timber 

 line, June to Sept.).— Lantz, Trans. Kans. Ac. Sri. for 1896-97 (1899), 263 

 (Lawrence, Manhattan, and Emporia, Nov.). 



Loxia stricklandi Nelson, Bep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 174, jiart (Colorado). 



Loxia cnrvirostra minor (not Crucirostra minor Brehm) American Ornitholo- 

 ciisTs' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 521, part (Rocky Mts. to Colorado). — Town- 

 send, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 216 (Mt. Shasta, etc., n. Cahfornia; 

 habits). — Merrill, Auk, xv, 1898, 15 (Ft. Sherman, n. w. Idaho, breeding). 



LOXIA CURVIROSTRA STRICKLANDI Ridgway. 

 MEXICAN CROSSBILL. 



Similar to L. c. hendirei, but decidedly larger (the largest of Amer- 

 ican forms). 



J/rt7t^— Length (skins), 150.<88-161.29 (155.19); wing, 93.22-102.87 

 (98.55); tail, 52.83-58.93 (56.13); exposed culmen, 18.80-21.84 (19.81); 

 depth of bill at base, 11.43-13.46 (12.45); tarsus, 17.53-18.80 (18.29); 

 middle toe, 13.72-16.26 (15.24).' 



Female.— luQugth. (skins), 145.29-160.02(150.62); wing, 86.87-98.55 

 (92.71); tail, 47.75-54.36 (51.31); exposed culmen, 17.78-20.57 (19.30); 

 depth of bill at base, 10.41-12.45 (11.68); tarsus, 17.02-18.29 (17.78); 

 middle toe, 12.70-15.24 (14.22).- 



High mountains of central and southern New Mexico and Arizona 

 (Chiricahua, Santa Catalina, and Mogollon ranges, Mount Graham, 

 San Francisco Mountains, etc.), along higher ranges in Mexico (in 

 coniferous belt) to Guatemala (Chaucus). 



Loxia mexicana (not of Linnaeus) Strickland, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1851, 43 

 (City of Mexico). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 365 (Jalapa, Vera 

 Cruz); 1864, 174 (City of Mexico); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 122 (Jalapa).— 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1866, 193 (Chaucus, Guatemala); Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 

 202 (Mexico). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 424. 



Var. Curvirostra mexicana Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 318a. 



^ Thirteen specimens. 



^ Nine specimens. 



Specimens from Guatemala, ]Mexico, and Arizona average separately as follows: 



