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well up on sides of neck and meeting the color of upper parts sharply ; 

 ground color of flanks, etc., darker — less grayish; a gray patch behind 

 eye; superciliary streak w/iite instead of rusty. From R. beldingi it 

 differs, in color, in having the back feathers much less decidedly 

 streaked; breast, etc., less pinkish or salmon-colored; flanks, etc., 

 browner — without dusky bars bordering the white ones, the white 

 bars wider; superciliary white instead of rusty. 



" Color. — Above, olive brown, broadly striped with blackish brown; 

 breast, etc., deep cinnamon-rufous, extending over sides of neck and 

 meeting color of upper parts sharply ; flanks, etc., olive, broadly banded 

 with white; centre of belly and throat whitish; superciliary streak 

 white; a gray patch on side of head behind eye. 



''Measurements. — Type, $ adult: wing, 152; tail, 58.2 ; tarsus, 49; 

 culmen, 58 mm. Topotype, $ ad., No. 47,847, Coll. of Win. Brewster : 

 Aving, 141 ; tail, 56.6; tarsus, 45; culmen, 54.2 mm." 



Type locality, Newport Landing, Los Angeles Co., California. 



Canachites canadensis labradorius Bangs. 

 Labrador Spruce Grouse. 



Chanachites canadensis labradorius Bangs, Proc. N. Engl. Zodl. Club, 

 I, 1899, 47, June 5, 1899. 



" Subspecijic characters. — Size of true C. canadensis or a little larger; 

 adult male, summer plumage, similar to true C. canadensis, except that 

 the white markings on under parts and on border of throat are rather 

 heavier, and gray markings of back and rump more pronounced and 

 purer gray — less reddish olive gray; adult female, summer plumage, 

 quite different in color from true C. canadensis, upper parts much more 

 purely black and gray, with much less buffy or ochraceous ; under parts 

 much whiter, with less butty or ochraceous." 



Type locality, Rigoulette, Hamilton Inlet, Labrador. 



Haliaeetus leucocephalus alascanus C. H. Totvnsend. 

 Northern Bald Eagle. 



Halicetus leucocephalus alascanus C. H. Townsend, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, XI, 145, June 9, 1897. 



"Subspecijic characters. — Differing from H. leucocephalus in size, 

 being considerably larger. 



"■Habitat. — Alaska. 



"Type. — $ (U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 151567). Unalaska, Aleutian 

 Islands. 



"Dimensions of Type. — Wing, 23.75 ; tail, 11.50; tarsus, 4; culmen, 

 2.6o;depth of bill, 1.50; hind claw, 1.50 [inches]. 



