Interior of British North America. 71 



may be found on the Saskatchawan, as there is a specimen m 

 the Smithsonian Institution from the Blackfoot country, which 

 lies on the Upper Missouri, and stretches northward across the 

 international boundary. 



59. Chrysomitris pinus. (See ' Ibis,' vol. iv. p. 6.) 

 I do not know of the Pine Finch having been obtained in the 

 interior previously to my specimen from the Saskatchawan. 



CCJRVIROSTRA LEUCOPTERA. 



The White-winged Crossbill is given in the ' Fauna Bor.-Am.' 

 as inhabiting the " dense spruce-forests " of the north ; Mr. 

 Murray records it from Hudson's Bay, and Mr. Ross gives it as 

 a winter bird on the Mackenzie. Pine-woods being scarce on 

 the Upper Saskatchawan, I did not fall in with it. 



iEoiOTHUS LINARIA. 

 ^GIOTHUS CANESCENS. 



Five specimens in my collection, obtained at Fort Carlton in 

 the months of November, December, January, and March, were 

 omitted in the original list {' Ibis,' vol. iv. No. 13), on account 

 of the difficulty of deciding to which species they belonged. 

 Neither can I now pretend to determine, as the specimens have 

 not been returned from Washington ; but only say that, from 

 Professor Baird having one from Red River Settlement in the 

 Smithsonian Institution, which he considers to be ^. canescens of 

 Gould, and Mr. Ross giving both on the Mackenzie, we may 

 presume that two species inhabit the interior. Mr. Murray has 

 also satisfied himself that a specimen from Hudson's Bay is 

 Linota horealis-= canescens (Gould). I think the best I can do 

 is to say only that a species of Redpole is a winter resident on the 

 Saskatchawan, where it is common enough, and leave this much- 

 disputed question alone*. 



Leucosticte tephrocotis. 



The Grey-crowned Finch was described in the ' Fauna Bor.- 

 Am.' from a specimen killed on the Saskatchawan in May. I 

 know nothing more about it. 



* Mr. Coues's Monograph of the ^gioihi, of which we have spoken in 

 our last volume {' Ibis,' 1862, p. 186), should be consulted on this point. 

 Probably Capt. Blakiston's specimens may be referable to JE. exilipes, 

 Mr. Coues's new species. — Ed. 



