iS6 



Scott on Winter Birds of Ottawa. 



[April 



holds good in all the specimens. The outli^ie is straight both in 

 linaria typica and in holboellii. 



Table of measureme7its of A. 1. rostrata. 



Collection. 



Cat. 



No. 



Locality. 



When 

 collected. 



Sex 

 and 

 aoe. 



Wing. 



Tail- 

 feathers . 



Bill 



from 



nostrils. 



Depth 



of 



bill. 



W. Brewster 



7892; 



A. Specimens from Massachusetts, 

 (a) Males with red on the breast. 



Near Boston. 

 Nantasket. 



mm. inch mm. inch mm. inch mm. inch. 

 Feb. 1SS3. (f ad. 7§ 3.07 62 2.44 8 0.32 7.7 0.30 

 Feb. 22, '83 c? ad. 77 3.03 60 2.36 8 0.32 7.0 0.28 



0.28 



0.28 



79 3. II 61.2 2.41 7.9 0.31 7.2 0.28 



W. Brewster 



78981 

 7913 

 7894 

 7S97I 



(^) Males without red on the breast. 



Near Boston. 



Feb. 18S3. 



(r) Females. 



W. Brewster 129221 Cambridge, Mass. | Feb. 19, '73 I 

 " 2928 W. Newton, Mass. Jan. 23, '75 



" I7S96I Near Boston. | Feb. 1SS3. | 



79 3. 1 1 61.2 2.41 7.9 0.31 7.1 0.2S 



75 

 74 

 -77_ 

 75.2 2.96 61 2.40 7.7 0.30 6.8 0.27 



Dr. A.K. Fisher|i444| Sing Sing, N.Y. 

 I1445I " 



B. Specimens from New York. 

 Males with red on the breast. 

 Winter. 



d ad. 

 cf ad. 



3-27 

 3-" 



64 I 2.52 I 8.2 I 0.32 I 7.2 I 0.28 



65 I 2.56 I S.o I 0.32 I 7.0 I 0.28 



Smithsonian Institution, 



Washington, D. C, Jan. 22, i[ 



THE WINTER PASSERES AND PICARI^ OF 

 OTTAWA. 



BY W. L. SCOTT. 



It has been the delight of poets, trom time immemorial, to 

 chant of spring and summer as the exclusive seasons of birds and 

 sunshine ; but even in our ' bleak northern clime,' our cold 

 winter days are by no means destitute of either the one or the 



