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has even been observed in Belgium (Crommelin, Archives Neerlandaises). The 

 bird, therefore, hke the Phyllopneuste borealis (P. kennicotti, Baii'd.) and Motacilla 

 Jiava, is to be considered as Siberian, stragghng to continental Alaska in the sum- 

 mer season. 



Chrysomitris psaltria (I, 474). See Am. Journ. of Science and Arts, Vol. 

 IV, December, iSTi', for a special paper upon the races of this species and their 

 relation to climatic regions. 



Chrysomitris psaltria, var. arizonae (I, 47G). On the 7th of May, 1872, 

 Dr. Cooper saw a single specimen (male), which he had no doubt was of this bird, 

 at Encinetos Ranch, thirty miles north of San Diego. It was feeding with other 

 species among dry sunflowers. He also saw another near San Buenaventura in 

 Januarv, 1873. 



Loxia "leucoptera, var." bifasciata (I, 483). At the time when the 

 synopsis of the species of this genus was prepared, we had not seen any specimens 

 of the European White-winged Crossbill. A recent examination of specimens from 

 Sweden has convinced us, however, that the species is entirely distinct from lettcop- 

 tera, and more nearly related to curvirostra, with the several forms of which it 

 agrees quite closely in the details of form and proportions, as well as in tints, with 

 the exception of the markings of the wing. 



Leucosticte tephrocotis (I, 504). The specimens collected by Mr. Allen 

 in Colorado, mentioned in the foot-note on page 505, and there said to be the sum- 

 mer dress of L. tephrocotis, we now believe to be a distinct form, which may be 

 named var. australis, Allen, characterized as follows : — 



Leucosticte tephrocotis, var. australis, Allen, MSS. Leucosticte tephrocotis, Allen, Am. Nat. 

 VI, No. 5, May, 1872. —Ib. Bull. Mu.s. Comp. Zool. Vol. Ill, No. 6, jip. 121, 162. 



Char. Similar to var. tephrocotis, but without any gray on the head, the red of the ab- 

 domen and wing-coverts bright carmine, instead of dilute rose-color, and the bill deep black, 

 instead of yellow tipped with dusky. Prevailing color raw-umber (more earthy than in 

 var. tephrocotis), becoming darker on the head and approaching to black on the forehead. 

 Nasal tufts white. Wings and tail dusky, the secondaries and primaries skirted with 

 paler; lesser and middle wing-coverts and tail-coverts, above and below, broadly tipped 

 with rosy carmine, producing nearly uniform patches; abdominal region with the feathers 

 broadly tipped with deep carmine or intense crimson, this covering nearly uniformly the 

 whole surface. Bill and feet deep black. 



Male (No. 15,724, Mus. C. Z., Mt. Lincoln, Colorado, July 25, 1871 ; J. A. Allen). Wing, 

 4.20 ; tail, 3.10 ; culmen, .45 ; tarsus, .70 ; middle toe, .60. 



Female (Mt. Lincoln, July 25 ; J. A. Allen). Wing, 4.00 ; tail, 3.00. Colors paler and 

 duller, the red almost obsolete. 



ITah. Breeding on Mt. Lincoln, Colorado, above the timber-line, at an altitude of about 

 12,000 feet. (July, 1872, J. A. Allen.) 



Since the descriptions of the several stages of L. tephrocotis were cast, we have 

 received from Mr. H. W. Elliott — Assistant Agent of the United States Treasury 

 Department, stationed at St. Paul's Island, Alaska, an accomplished and energetic 

 collector — numerous specimens of L. griseinucha in the breeding plumage. The 

 fact that these specimens have the gray of the head as well defined as do examples in 



