bangs: birds from THE HIGHLANDS OF SIBERIA. 



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of northern Europe. Bill (Fig. 2) very different from that of either. 

 It is nearly as long as in P. e. enucleator (Fig. 1), but is very thin, 

 small, and tapering, and needs no comparison with the short, stubby, 

 high bill of P. e. kamtschatkensis (Fig. 3). 



1. 



2. 



3. 



Fig. 1. Pinicola enucleator enucleator (Linne). No. 30,784 M. C. Z. ad. d". 

 Fig. 2. Pinicola enucleator pacata Bangs. Type No. 57,927 M. C. Z. ad. cf. 

 Fig. 3. Pinicola enucleator kamtschatkensis (Dyb.) No. 77,210. Amer. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist. ad. cf. 



Measurements. 



Type, adult cf , no. 57,927, wing, 103; tail, 82; tarsus, 21.5; cul- 

 men, 15. 



Remarks. It is to be regretted that only one specimen was taken, 

 but the character of the bill is so constant in large series of the two 

 other Eurasian forms of pine grosbeak and without resemblance to 

 the shape shown in the Altai bird, that I have no hesitation in adding 

 a third race. 



Emberiza hortulana Linne. 



One adult male Tchegan-Burgazi Pass, July 23. E. buchanani 

 Blyth was not seen by any of the party. I suppose, like many other 

 birds given as the breeding forms of the Altai Mountains, its range is 

 really limited to the Mongolian slopes of the mountains. 



CORVIDAE. 



CORVUS CORAX LATJRENCEI Hume. 



This raven was not taken, but a skull, with most of the feathers was 

 saved from the remains of a dead bird found at Topucha, August A 8. 

 So far as I can decide by the skull alone the raven of the region appears 

 to be nearer laurencei than to any of the other forms. 



