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the former bird. The second specimen, a young bird, though in the streaked 

 plumage peculiar to the fii-st stage (taken September 7), has the still unde- 

 veloped bill conspicuously larger than in the typical americana. It seems 

 probable, then, that the Mexican variety follows the mountain ranges north- 

 ward, and breeds at least as far north as extreme Southern Colorado. 



During the latter part of September, the Mexican Crossbill was seen in 

 considerable numbers among the pines and other coniferous trees of the 

 Mount Graham range. They flew about from tree top to tree top in small 

 flocks of from five to fifteen, and were always busily engaged in cutting 

 open with their powerful scissor like bills the pine seeds, their favorite diet. 

 In habits and notes, they do not difter from the common Red Crossbill. 



Var. atnericana. 



Var. ntexicana. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



210 

 211 



746 

 80s 

 806 

 807 

 875 



$ ad. 

 5jun. 



$ ad. 



S ad. 

 i ad. 



876 \$ ad. 



Pagosa, Colo 



do 



Mount Graham, Ariz 



do 



do , 



do 



do 



do 



Sept. 7, 1874 



....do 



Sept. 19, 1874 

 Sept. 22, 1S74 

 Sept. 22, 1874 

 Sept. 23, 1874 

 Sept. 25, 1874 

 ...do 



C. E. Aiken 



do 



H. W. Henshaw 



do 



do., 



do 



do 



do 



3-77 

 3-72 

 3-95 

 4. 00 

 3-97 

 3-90 

 3-97 

 3.85 



2.29 

 2. 48 

 2.62 

 2.65 



2.63 

 2.66 



LEDCOSTIOTE AUSTEALIS, Allen. 

 Allen's Brown-capped Finch. 



Plates V & VI. 

 Leticosticte tephrocotis v-ir. avstralis, Allf.n, MSS. — Rmfi., Bull. Essex. Inst., v, 1873, 



182, 189, 190.— Bd., Buew., & Ridg., N. A. Birds, iii, 1874, 509. 

 Leucosficte austrdlis, Ridg., Bull. Geo!. Siirv. 'iViT.,N(). 2, 2(1 ser. 1875, 79(nioiiograpbic). 



The following interesting notes are given by Dr. Rothrock, who found 

 the species very abundant in the mountains back of Fairplay in the South 

 Park, and also at Mounts Harvard, Evans, Red Mountains, and elsewhere: 



