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size only. Later it was found that just as small individuals 
oceur on the Atlantic Coast. But it must be remembered that 
these do not represent the average size of minor. My series of 
twelve males of sitkensis shows an average wing measurement of 
85.2 mm. (See also the tables of measurement given by Ridg- 
way, Bds. N. & Mid. Am., Part I, 1901, page 48.) The form 
sitkensis averages smaller than minor. 
In the National Museum series is one specimen (No. 153244) 
from Alberni, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, which is 
practically identical with the Admiralty Island sitkensis. It 
seems probable therefore that the form sithensis extends far 
southward through the humid Pacific Coast belt. 
On Admiralty Island, where the above-described series was 
taken, the species appeared to be common. At Windfall Harbor 
Dixon says that ‘‘a flock of six or eight were accustomed to 
come down very early in the morning to feed on the beach, and 
a number were secured. Birds taken May 3 were evidently 
” 
breeding. At Killisnoo, June 16, the same collector saw ‘‘a 
family of six, four young and two old ones; the young were fully 
feathered but were still being fed.”’ 
Stephens saw the species occasionally in pairs at Mole Har- 
bor, May 19 to June 10. And at Red Bluff Bay, Baranof Isl- 
and, between June 11 and 20, he saw a flock in the timber on the 
side of a mountain at about 1500 feet altitude. 
Loxia leucoptera Gmelin. White-winged Crossbill. 
Of the eight specimens of the white-winged crossbill obtained 
by the expedition, one (No. 456) is a full-grown juvenal taken 
at Hooniah, Chichagof Island, June 25; two are adult females 
(Nos. 453, 467) ; and five are full-plumaged males (Nos. 465, 466, 
468, 454, 455). No two of the latter are exactly alike in color. 
Only one (No. 468) is of the deep poppy red like all my series 
from the Kowak Valley, Northern Alaska. The other four are 
(No. 465) saturn red, (Nos. 455, 466) coral red, and (No. 454) 
peach blossom pink mixed with chrome yellow. However, in a 
series of forty-seven male white-winged crossbills from Labrador 
and the eastern United States, I find examples almost duplieat- 
ing each of these styles of coloration. I can see no pronounced 
differences in size or proportions. 
