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Curvirostra americana (not Lo.via americana Gmelin, 1788) Wilson, Am. Orn., iv, 

 1811, 44, pi. 31, figg. 1, 2.— Baied, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 426, part 

 (Pennsylvania; New York; Fort Steilacoom and Shoalwater Bay, Washing- 

 ton); Cat. N.Am. Birds, 1859, no. 318. — Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 198 (coast of Washington). — Ball and Bannis- 

 ter, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 281 (Sitka, Alaska).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 

 1870, 148, part. 



[Curvirostra} americana Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 129, part. 



Loxia americana (not Gmelin, 1788) Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 

 38. — Bonaparte and Schlegel, Mon. Lox., 1850, 5, pi. 6. — Sclater, Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 121 (Nova Scotia).— Finsch, Abh. Nat. Ver. Brem., iii, 1872, 56 

 (coast of Alaska). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 

 1874, pi. 23, figs. 1, 4.— Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 455 (E. Humboldt 

 Mts., Nevada, August, Sept.). — Langdon, Birds Cincinnati, 1877, 8 (Hamil- 

 ton Co., Ohio, Nov. 30).— Brewer, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 50 (breed- 

 ing at Randolph, Vermont; nesting habits). 



L. [o.ri'a] americana Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 388. — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 

 1850, 527. 



\_Loxia curvirostra] ft. americana Blasius, List Birds Europe (ed. Newton), 

 1862, 14. 



Loxia curvirostra . . . var. americana Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 143. 



L. [o.n'a] curvirostra . . . var. americana Ridgway, Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, Jan., 1874, 

 372 (Illinois in winter). 



Loxia curvirostra var. americana Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 484, part.— Bicknell, Am. Nat., x, 1876, 237 (breeding at 

 Riverdale, s. e. New York).- — Jouy, Field and Forest, ii, 1877, 155 (District 

 Columbia). 



L. [oxiali curvirostra var. americana Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 105 

 (n. e. Illinois in winter). 



\_Loxia curvirostra var. americana] b. americana Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 109. 



Loxia curvirostra americana Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, July, 1878, 117 

 (descr. supposed female iuv. = female ad.?). — Bicknell, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, V, 1880, 7 (breeding at Riverdale, s. e. New York; breeding habits; 

 descr. nest and eggs); Auk, i, 1884, 327 (song). — Smith, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 vi, 1881, 56 (Cumberland plateau, e. Tennessee, Aug.). — Ridgway, Nom. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1881, no. 172; Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., ii, 1884, 105 (crit.); Auk, i, 

 1884, 292 (Laurel, etc., Maryland, probably breeding). — Coues, Check List, 

 2d ed., 1882, no. 199.— Nelson, Cruise "Corwin," 1881 (1883), 66 (St. 

 Michael, Alaska, 1 spec). — Finsch, Journ. fiir Orn. 1883, 274 (Portage Bay, 

 Alaska, Feb.). — Browne, Auk, ii, 1885, 105 (Framingham, e. Massachusetts, 

 breeding). 



L. [oxia] curvirostra americana Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 349. 



[Loxia crucirostra'] var. ammcana Dubois, Bull. Mus. Roy. Belg., i, Oct., 1882,6, 

 part (synonymy; geog. range). 



Crucirostra minor Brehm, Naumannia, iii, 1853, 193, fig. 12 (coniferous forests of 

 United States; ex Loxia minor Lichtenstein, MS.). 



Loxia curvirostra minor Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, Sept. 2, 1885, 354. — 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 521, part. — Brews- 

 ter, Auk, iii, 1886, 107 (Black Mts., North Carolina, above 5,000 feet in 

 summer). — Anthony, Auk, iii, 1886, 168 (n. w. Oregon). — Seton, Auk, iii, 

 1886, 322 (w. Manitoba in winter).— Turner, Contr. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 1886, 

 170 (St. Michael, Alaska, 1 spec. Aug. 4).— Nelson, Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. 

 Alaska, 1887, 173 (coast Alaska south of peninsula). — Wayne, Auk, iv, 1887, 



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