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Table of dimensions of specimens of A. exili pes from America — Continued. 

 C— SUMMER BIRDS FROM ALASKA. 



67816 

 70847 



Turner. . . 

 ...do ... 



81362 Bean . 

 86525 

 88747 

 88745 



70848 

 88746 



McKay . . 

 Murdoch. 

 ....do.... 



Turner... 

 Murdoch . 



55 

 3752 



402 

 486 



Locality. 



Saint Michael's. . 



do 



Chamiaso Island 



Nushagak 



Point Barrow . . . 

 do 



Average 



Fort Yukon . . 

 Point Barrow 



Average 



July 7,1874 

 Juno 1, 1876 

 Aug. 31, 1880 

 June 7,1881 

 June 16, 1882 

 July 3,1882 



cT ad. 

 d" ad. 

 d ad. 

 cT ad. 

 d ad. 

 cT ad. 



May 9, 1876 

 June 13, 1882 



9 ad. 

 ? ad. 



M 



mm. 



7 

 7 

 7 

 6.5 



7 

 7 



6.9 



mm,. 

 10 



71. 5 56. 51 



10 



117. Leucosticte griseonucha (Brandt). 



18*26. — Passer arctous var. y Pall., Zoogr. Ross. As., I, ji. 23. 



1841. — Fringilla {Linaria) griseonucha Brandt, Bull. Acarl. St. Petereb., X, 1841, No. 

 16, p. 19.— KiTTL., Denkw., I, p. 278 (1858). 



18—. — ^ Montifringilla pustulata Cab. in Ersch. & Grub. Enc, L. (p. 215). — Fringilla 

 p. KiTTL., Denkw., I, p. 278 (1858). 



1850. — Montifringilla griseinucha Bp. & Schleg., Mon. Lox., p. 35, pi. 41. — Finsch, 

 Abh. Nat. Bremen, III, 1872, p. 57. — Leucosticte g. Bp., Cousp. Av., I, p. 

 537 (1850).— Cab., Mus. Heiu., I, p. 154 (1851).— Baird. B. N. Amer., p. 

 430.— /rf., Trans. Cbic. Ac. Sc, I, 1869 (p. 317, pi. xxviii, f. 2).— Id., in Coop. 

 Birds Calif., I, p. 161 (1871).— Dall & Bann., Traus. Chic. Ac. Sc, I, 

 1869 (p. 282).— Dall, Avif. Al. I. eastw., p. 3, (1873).— id., Avif. Al. I. west, 

 p. 4 (1874).— RiDGW., BuX. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr., 1875, p. 77.— Id., 

 Nomencl. N. A. B., p. 21 (1881).— Bean, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mut<., 1882, p. 148.— 

 Taczan., Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1882, p. 393. — Nelson, Cruise Corwin, p. 67 

 (1883).— Dybow., Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1883, p. 364.— Stejneger, Auk, 

 1884, p. 82.— Id., Naturen, 1884, p. 34.— Turner, Auk, 1885, p. 157. 



1872. — ^ Montifringilla speciosa Fii^scn, Abh. Nat. Ver. Bremen, III, 1872, p. 60. 



1872. — Leucosticte tcphrocotis var. griaeinuvha CouES, Key, p. 130. — Id., Birds N. West, 

 p. Ill (1874).— /d. in Elliott's Aff. Alaska, p. 174 (1875).— B. B. & Ridgw., 

 Hist. N. Am. B., I, p. 508 (1874).— H. W. Elliott, Monogr. Seal Isl., p. 

 127 (1882). 



1875. — Leucosticte tephrocotis Harting, Fauna Prybilov, p. 16 (1875). 



1843. — Leucosticte griscogenys Gould, P. Z. S., 1843, p. 104. 



1883. — Leucosticte brunneinucha S'TK.TNKGKii, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, p. 71 (Hec Brandt, 

 (cf. "The Auk," 1884, p. 82) ). 



Compared with skins from tlie other Aleutian Islands and from the 

 Prybiloff Islands, my specimens show very little difierence. There 

 seems to be a tendency to a darker shade of the brownish aud a clearer 



