482 Mr. H. F. Witherby on Birds 



5tli, two coutaiiud fresh eggs and the third three young birds, 

 just hatched, and one egg. On one of the nests with eggs 

 we found the hen bird dead. The bird had evidently died 

 " egg-bound," which is probably a rare occurrence in wihl 

 birds. 



We noticed a very remarkable variation iu the size of the 

 bills of the birds we shot. Of two males from the same little 

 company, one had a large bill, the other a small bill. Two 

 other males had large bills. Of four females shot, only one 

 had a large bill, the others having very small bills^ much 

 smaller, indeed, than the smallest of the males. 



These birds were all shot in the same locality and within 

 a few days of each other, and the variation in the size of the 

 bills would seem, therefore, to be individual, and not seasonal 

 or dietary. 



We obtained a specimen of L. linaria at Elvenaes on the 

 Syd-Varanger in June ; about 60 miles east of this point, at 

 Petschenga, in July of the same year, Messrs. Pearson obtained 

 L. exilipes only (Ibis, 1899, p. 526); about 60 miles east of 

 Petschenga we obtained in August, at Ekaterina, L. linaria 

 oulv ; while about 150 miles east of Ekaterina the Pearson 

 cxpeditition in June 1895 obtained at Lake Ukanskoe L. 

 ejcilipes only. (Ibis, 1896, p. 208.) 



[Pleske records Pi/rrhula niajur from Kandalax (Mela).] 



PiNICOLA ENUCLEATOR. 



The Pine-Grosbeak was not common iu the jjine-forests, 

 but we found it much more plentiful among the birches at 

 Kola beyond the region of pine. Pleske also found it among 

 the birches near Kola as well as in the pine-forests further 

 south. 



[Pleske lias records of Loxia curvirostra at several points 

 on our route, and a record of L. pitijupsittacus from near 

 Kandalax (Enwald).] 



E.M15ER1ZA CITRINELLA. 



The Yellow Bunting was fairly common from Kandalax to 

 Pulozero, i. e. within the pine-region, north of which we did 

 not observe it. 



