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Sitka, Dall Island) and northwestern British Columbia (Telegraph 

 Creek, Tetana Lake). 



Winter range. — Winters from southern Alaska (Juneau, Wrangell) 

 south to Washington (Port Angeles, Dayton), central eastern Oregon, 

 and northwestern Idaho (Cedar Mountains). 



PINICOLA ENUCLEATOR CARLOTTAE Brooks 



Queen Charlotte Pine Grosbeak 



Habits 



Allan Brooks (1922), in naming this race, based on a small series 

 of specimens from the Queen Charlotte Islands, gives it the following 

 subspecific characters: "Smallest and darkest of all the American 

 subspecies; tail much shorter than in the other American races. Red 

 of male deeper and more scarlet (less of carmine); yellow of females 

 and old males darker and suffusing the entire plumage more or less, 

 except the center of belly, lower tail coverts, and under wings and 

 tail." 



This race seems to be confined during the breeding season to the 

 islands for which it is named. 



There seems to be no information available on the nesting, food, 

 or other habits of this grosbeak, which probably do not differ mate- 

 rially from those of the other forms of the species. 



Distribution 



Range. — The Queen Charlotte pine grosbeak is resident on the 

 islands and along the coast of western British Columbia (Queen 

 Charlotte Islands, Porcher Island, Rivers Inlet, Vancouver Island). 



Casual records. — Casual inland in southern British Columbia 

 (LUlooet). 



PINICOLA ENUCLEATOR MONTANA Ridgway 



Rocky Mountain Pine Grosbeak 

 Contributed by Wendell Taber 



Habits 



Robert Ridgway (1898) described this race as being similar to P. e. 

 californica but decidedly larger and shghtly darker, the adult male 

 with the red of a darker, more carmine, hue. The 1957 A.O.U. Check- 

 List gives its breeding range as central interior British Columbia and 

 southwestern Alberta south through the northern Cascade Range and 

 Rocky Mountains to central and southeastern Washington, north- 



