1908] Grinnell.—Biota of the San Bernardino Mountains. 91 
6000 feet; around Doble, 7000 feet; through Holeomb valley ; 
and at the north base of Sugarloaf, 7500 feet. At the latter 
point August 18 to 22, they were feeding on service-berries in 
company with Cassin purple finches. One unparalleled and re- 
markable occurrence was the taking of an adult male linet on 
the extreme summit of Sugarloaf, 9842 feet altitude, June 24, 
1905. 
Eight examples of this bird were taken. 
Loxia curvirostra stricklandi Ridgway. Mexican Crossbill. 
Although I thought I: heard crossbills in the same locality in 
June, 1905, it was not until July 15, 1906, that I secured speci- 
mens confirmative of this record. On the curiously ridged and 
basined stretch of country immediately west of Dry lake, from 
9100 to 9400 feet elevation, stands a mixed growth of limber and 
tamarack pines. In this timber I first heard the calls of a party 
of erossbills and then saw them flying past overhead. But it 
took patient search to locate them; for when perched and feeding 
they were absolutely quiet and almost motionless. A company 
of about eight, all told, were working on the green (year-old) 
cones in the tops of two or three limber pines. Three of the 
birds were shot before the flock was lost track of. These were 
adults, but I thought I saw streaked juvenals as well. I heard 
the notes later, a loud chirp with a peculiar twang, repeated sev- 
eral times in rapid suecession, goldfinch-fashion, when flying, 
but failed to locate the birds. None were detected during an 
hour’s hunt through the same neighborhood June 18, 1907. But 
there is a large extent of the same kind of woods, and scores of 
the birds may be scattered about, and yet defy immediate dis- 
covery. 
T sent the three skins to Mr. Harry C. Oberholser of the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture, who pronounces them stricklandt. 
They measure in millimeters as follows: 
No., 4 Depth of Bill from 
Coll. J. G. Sex Wing Tail Culmen Bill Nostril 
7584 2 91 62 18.7 10 15.6 
7585 6 98.5 67 20 11 17 
7586 6 97 65 21.5 Wye 18 
This is by far the southernmost summer record of the cross- 
bill for California. 
