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trict (and, I assume, also that of Kadiak Island). They are 
distinctly different, in all the characters previously pointed out, 
from the P. ¢. alascensis of the interior of Alaska. They do not 
show any slight approach, even, to that form, as is the case with 
some other birds represented in the two regions. 
A specimen in full juvenal plumage (no. 1515, ¢ juv., La- 
touche Island, August 7, A. M. Alexander) may be described as 
follows: 
Upper parts deep smoke gray, the feathers everywhere tipped 
with a greenish tint of orange ochraceous; this is strongest on 
top of head and upper tail-coverts; wings and tail slate black; 
three outermost rectrices narrowly and outwardly margined with 
dull greenish, the rest similarly edged with gray; the primaries 
narrowly, the secondaries more broadly margined with pale drab 
eray; greater wing-coverts copiously tipped on outer webs with 
heht hair brown; middle wing-coverts, tipped with wood brown; 
lesser wing-coverts like back; underparts drab-gray, the sides of 
head and throat region-suffused with dull ocher yellow. Al- 
though the bird is apparently full-grown, wisps of natal down 
still adhere to some of the juvenal feathers of the flanks, rump, 
and scapulars. The entire body pliamage has the loose, soft 
texture characterizing the young of other fringillines. 
The crop of a grosbeak taken by Dixon July 19 at Latouche 
Island contained sprouting weed seeds. This bird was flushed 
from the ground. A family of adults and young met with near 
the same place August 5 were also feeding on the ground where 
they were gathering soft weed seeds. This shows that the species 
probably resorts regularly to other sources of food than the leaf- 
buds of trees. Besides the localities above mentioned, Hinchin- 
brook Island was found to harbor the pine grosbeak. On 
Montague Island the species ranged from sea-level up to timber- 
line. 
Loxia leucoptera Gmelin. White-winged Crossbill. 
Four adult examples of this species obtained (nos. 1531- 
1534), two males and two females, taken by Heller June 22, at 
Cedar Bay, Hawkins Island. I am unable to find any charac- 
ters to distinguish these from the white-winged erossbill of the 
