CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 421 
Nile blue with a possible greenish tinge, dotted and spotted with 
pale lavender, drab and sepia. The markings are very unevenly 
_ distributed, the small ends of the eggs being nearly immaculate, 
while there is a conspicuous wreath about thg large ends. The 
markings are not abruptly defined, but the margins of the spots 
are distinct, fading out into the surrounding ground colour. One 
of the eggs is more thickly and evenly sprinkled with various 
tints of bistre. The eggs are rather ovate in shape, but the small 
ends are blunt. On June rith, in the Kowak delta, I found a 
similarly constructed nest containing four small young ; this was 
six feet up in a dwarf spruce, and on the 12th, I found another 
nest in all particulars like the other two, and containing four eggs 
almost ready to hatch. My series of 44 skins of P. e. alascensts 
confirms the distinctness of that race; the Kowak River birds 
present an extreme of ashness. (Grznnedl ) 
515d. Kadiak Pine Grosbeak. 
Pinicola enucleator fammula (HOMEYER) RipGw. 1898. 
Island of Kadiak, Alaska, and Alaskan coast southward at least 
to Sitka [probably coast of British Columbia at least in winter. ] 
(Ridgway.) 
CLXXXV. PYRRHULA Brisson. 1760. 
516. Cassin’s Builfinch. 
Pyrrhula cassini (BAIRD) TRIST?AM. 1871. 
The presence of this bird in the North American fauna rests 
solely upon the capture of a specimen at Nulato on the middle 
Yukon, January 1oth, 1867, by Mr. Dall. (JVedson.) 
On July tgth, 1879, in the northern waters of Cumberland Gulf, 
Mr. Ludwig Kumlien saw a bird which he could not secure and 
which in his opinion was either this species or Pyrrhula europea, 
possibly the latter. We have been unable to obtain any further 
records. 
CLXXXVI. CARPODACUS Kavp. 1829. 
517. Purple Finch. 
Carpodacus purpureus (GMEL.) GRAY. 1844. 
Kumlien obtained a specimen on shipboard off Resolution Is- 
land; Drexler obtained it at Moose Factory May 28th, 1860 ; 
