1909] The 1907 Alexander Alaska Expedition. 223 
of all the specimens are dark, leaden, rather than ashy; and the 
bills are much larger and heavier than in the case of northern 
Alaska birds. These are the characters which have been assigned 
to the race flammula, though the type locality of that name is 
Kadiak Island, and differences may be found between examples 
from there and the Sitkan District. I have no Kadiak skins to 
compare with. 
Pine grosbeaks were detected by the expedition only on Chi- 
chagof Island and at Glacier Bay. Dixon found the first near 
Hooniah, June 25. ‘‘A seattered company were discovered in 
a patch of windfalls at about 1800 feet altitude. The snow was 
just melting and many small plants were coming up in the open 
spaces that were exposed to the sun. ‘The birds in pairs were 
feeding on these sprouting plants. The song had a clear, snappy, 
flyeatcher-like accent to it.”’ Several pine grosbeaks were seen 
near the beach at Port Frederick as the party landed there, July 
25, and at Idaho Inlet, July 20 to 25, the species was seen twice 
and heard many times. At Coppermine Cove, Glacier Bay, July 
10 to 20, Dixon found it fairly common. ‘*The males would 
perch on the very tip of some spruce and indulge in a jerky but 
clear-cut song. Sometimes they were found feeding in the alders, 
where we saw them tearing the young alder buds apart, and 
supposed at first they were eating them; but upon examination 
we found their erops full of small green worms and it was evi- 
dently these the birds were after and not the buds themselves.’”’ 
Loxia curvirostra sitkensis, new subspecies. Sitka Crossbill. 
Typr.—Male adult; No. 472, U. C. M. V. Z.; Windfall Har- 
bor, Admiralty Island, Alaska; May 3, 1907; collected by C. 
Littlejohn. 
CHARACTERS.—Similar in size to the smaller individuals of 
Loxia curvirostra minor (Brehm) Ridgway, of the Atlantie re- 
gion of North America, but general coloration different: in adult 
male about orpiment orange, Instead of the deep brownish erim- 
son or coral red as in minor. 
DESCRIPTION OF T'yPE.—General body-color orpiment orange 
(top of head more Chinese orange, rump orange, and throat 
