NO. 1144. BIRDS OF THE KURIL ISLANDS— STEJNEdER. 295 



140. LOXIA CURVIROSTRA Linnaeus. 295. 



Accoidinj^ to Blakiston and l*ryer,' Mr. Snow obtained a crossbill 

 at the Kurils. No further inrorniation given. 



141. CARDUELIS SPINUS fLinnaeus). 285. 



Rtiutnerated by Snow, without parti(;ularH.^ I saw the siskin at 

 Shana, Iturup, Hepteuiber 1 aiMl 5, 189(1. 



142. CHLORIS KAWARAHIBA (Temminckj. 283. 



The green finch described by Hteller ' was undoubtedly this species, 

 and probably from one of the northern islands. In the I'ryer collection 

 acquiied by Sc<;bolini there wcr<^ two specimens obtained by Snow 

 from the Kuril islands.' It is not mentioned in Snow's list. 



143. LEUCOSTICTE BRUNNEONUCHA (Brandt). 288. 



Breeds in the Kurils, where it was obtained by I'^ikushi in July.'' 

 With reference to the variety i» 1, of I'iillas/' from the Kurils, I 

 refer to what I wrote on a i)ievious occasion.' 



Cabanis' MontiJ'rinyiUa puatulata and M. arctoa from the Kuril 

 islands, in the museum at ]><*rlin," have i)robably an erroneous locality 

 assigned to them. Bonaparte and Schlegel in their Monographic des 

 Loxiens figure one of the specimens of the last-mentioned species 

 most beautifully (Plate 45, lower figure), and in the text* refer to it as 

 killed on the Kuril islands an<l obtained from the collection of I'allas. 

 It is very susjiicious, however, that Pallas in his Zoographia does not 

 mention having the typical form from the Kurils. 



144. PASSER MONTANUS (Linnaeus;. 281. 



Enumerated by Snow with a query,-* but I saw it at Shana, Iturup, 

 September 4 and 5, 1896. 



145. URAGUS SANGUINOLENTUS (Temminck and Schlegel). 289. 



Blakiston and Fryer are authority for the statement that Mr. Snow 

 had specjimens from the Kurils.'" 



' Paf,'e 176. 



2 Notes Kuril Ih)., p. '61. 

 n'allas, Zoogr., II, p. 14. 

 MJ. Jap. Kiiip , p. 128. 

 '^Blakintoii and Pryer, p. 174. 

 "Zooj;r., If, p. 22. 



Troc. IJ. S. Nat. .Muh., 1892, XV, No. 904, pp. 3.54,35.5. 



*Er8ch So Gruber, Encyolop., 1849, L, p. 215; Li( hteuHteiii, Nomciul. Av. Mus. 

 Berol., 1854, p. 47. 

 •' Page 59. 

 '" Page 174. 



