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146. PYRRHULA GRISEIVENTRIS KURILENSIS Sharpe. 



Wosnessenski obsiMved the bulllincli on Unip, May 8, 1845, and 

 begiiniiiig of" August (old style), according to Middeiidorff ' aud See- 

 bohin lias specimens collected by bim iii the Kurils in July.^ Blakiston 

 and Pryer' say that the species is very numerous on Iturup in Sep- 

 tember, and 1 found it so there at Shana, September 4, o, 181)G, The 

 specimens I saw were young ones molting from the first, buflf plumage 

 into the gray one. Two were preserved for the U. S. National Museum. 



' l8i*pil»l. Kiisul., p. 124. *B. Jup. Eiiip., p. 129. ''Page 17(). 



