328 OsrRHoLser, Notes on N. A. Birds. II. ne 
southeastern Montana, eastern Wyoming, Colorado, and New 
Mexico; south to southern New Mexico, central western and 
central Texas, Louisiana, and North Carolina; east to the Atlan- 
tic coast from North Carolina to New Brunswick; and winters 
south to the Gulf coast of the United States and the Mexican 
states of Tamaulipas, Yucatan, Zacatecas, Michoacan, and Sinaloa. 
Molothrus ater artemisie.— Western United States and western 
Canada: breeds north to southern Keewatin and southern Mac- 
kenzie; west to Alberta, Oregon, and California; south to south 
central California, Nevada, central Utah, southwestern Wyoming, 
southwestern Montana, and central Montana; east to eastern 
North Dakota and Manitoba; and winters south to southern 
Texas and the Mexican states of Vera Cruz, Michoacan, Tepic, 
and southern Lower California. Casual east to Fort Snelling, 
Minnesota. 
Molothrus ater obscurus.— Mexico and the southwestern border 
of the United States: breeds north to southern Louisiana, southern 
Texas, central Arizona, and southern California, south to Tamau- 
lipas, Oaxaca, Colima, Sinaloa, and southern Lower California. 
Loxia curvirostra bendirei Ridgway. 
This crossbill was first described by Mr. Ridgway from Fort 
Klamath, Oregon.'| Although Mr. Ridgway has since consistently 
recognized it, and in his “Birds of North and Middle America” 
has set forth its characters in detail with tables of measurements,” 
it has been generally. discredited. A recent careful examination of 
all material available shows, however, that this race is well de- 
serving of recognition, although, as often happens in closely allied 
subspecies, the characters are largely average distinctions. It 
differs from Loxia curvirostra minor in decidedly larger size and 
rather paler colors; and occupies, moreover, a definite and very 
extensive range in the western United States. From Lozia curvi- 
rostra stricklandi it differs in being decidedly smaller. While it 
thus is intermediate between Loaia curvirostra minor and Loxia 
1 Loxia curvirostra bendirei Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., II, April 28, 1884, p. 101. 
2 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, part I, 1901, p. 50. 
