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SPIZA AMERICANA (Gmelin) : Dickcissel 



Throughout the open country of western Kentucky the dickcissel 

 is one of the common summer residents seen constantly in travel 

 along the roads. Specimens were obtained as follows: Hickman, 

 May 20, 23, and 31 ; Waverly, May 6, 7, and 11 ; and Corydon, May 14. 



CARPODACUS PURPUREUS PURPUREUS (Gmelin) : Eastern Purple Finch 



In fall the purple finch was found at Koundhill, Butler County, 

 on November 7 and 12, two adult males and a female being taken. 

 One was collected at Bardstown on April 11, 1877, by C. W. 

 Beckham. 



SPINUS PINUS PINUS (Wilson) : Northern Pine Siskin 



Two were taken on October 27 near South Carrollton. Later a 

 flock was recorded on November 12 near Brownsville. 



SPINUS TRISTIS TRISTIS (Linnaeus) : Eastern Goldfinch 



Near Brandenburg goldfinches in molt from winter to summer 

 dress were taken April 23 and May 3. One from Waverly collected 

 on May 6 is just completing this molt. Summer birds were taken 

 at Monticello on June 10 and 15, at 3,800 feet elevation on Black 

 Mountain on June 23, and near Quincy on July 12. A juvenile 

 bird recently from the nest and an adult male in worn plumage 

 were collected at 2,800 feet on Log Mountain, 7 miles west of Mid- 

 dlesboro, on September 21, and other young birds in postjuvenal 

 molt were secured at Burlington on October 11. Specimens in win- 

 ter dress include one from South Carrollton, October 27; two from 

 Eoundhill, November 7; and one from Lexington, November 17, 

 1898 (taken by E. A. Mearns). 



LOXIA CURVIROSTRA Linnaeus: Red Crossbill 



There is in the National Museum an adult male red crossbill, taken 

 at Bardstown in March 1883 by C. W. Beckham, that agrees with 

 Ludlow Griscom's description of Looda curvirostra neogaea?-^ It is 

 dull red in color and has the following measurements : Wing 91, tail 

 52.2, culmen from base 17.3, depth of bill 9.2, tarsus 16.5 mm. 



PIPILO ERYTHROPHTHALMUS ERYTHROPHTHALMUS (Linnaeus) : Red-eyed Towhee 



Although two forms of towhee are found in Temiessee, the Alabama 

 towhee {Pipilo e. canaster) ranging in the southeastern and eastern 

 sections north to Shady Valley, the birds of Kentucky are all to be 

 classed as the typical form. The only suggestion of the more south- 



'"' Loxla curvirostra neogaea Griscom, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 41, Jan. 1937, 

 pp. 93, 110 (Lake Umbagog, Maine). 



