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Dyche 0)1 the Red Crossbill hi Ko/is 



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[Mr. Dychc has \erv kindly sent me for examination t\vent\-nine of the 

 Crossbills above referred to. Thev are essentially similar to Colorado 

 specimens and considerably smaller than Strickland i as represented in 

 Southern Arizona. There can be little doubt that they came into Kansas 

 from the westward, probably from the Rocky Mountains north of the New 

 Mexico line. Under Mr. Ridgwaj's recent arrangement* they would be 



*Proc. Biolog. Soc. Wasiiinjiton, Vol. TI, pp. 10T-T07. 



