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It is unlikely that these finches move much further north, for beyond 

 the mountain line there are only a few isolated elevations with the type 

 of mountainside terrain to which they are usually restricted. 



After repeated examinations these rosy finches appeared to differ 

 from L. t. tephrocotis of more southern origin in being more exten- 

 sively tinged with rosy color on upper and lower posterior parts of 

 the body. The brown of the Anaktuvuk specimens is more red. Ber- 

 nard Feinstein (1958) , who has described them as a new race, remarked 

 a more distinctive difference from tephrocotis in the gray pattern 

 about the head, which approaches the pattern of Uttoralis. We con- 

 sider the Anaktuvuk birds to be distinguished as a separate race. 



Brina Kessel kindly sent three specimens of rosy finches obtained 

 in the mountains near the head of Sheen jek Kiver in the eastern part 

 of the Brooks Range, in Yukon Territory. These, a specimen from 

 Bettles, and two from the Cheena River also conform with our Anak- 

 tuvuk birds. A few specimens from Eagle are the northernmost 

 examples of tephrocotis that we could find. 



Acanthis hornemanni exilipes (Coues) 



12 males Feb. 14-July 19 weight (30), 10.7- 



16.1, average 12.7 

 g- 



8 females Mar. 4-June 26 weight (24), 10.4- 



14. 8, average 12.8 

 g. 



2 young males July 19, 24 weight 12.5, 12.2 g. 



2 nests, each with Juno 16, 17 ~~" 



5 fresh eggs and 

 female 



2 nests, each with -~- ~~~' 



4 fresh eggs, no 

 female speci- 

 men, and there- 

 fore uncertain 

 as to whether 

 flammea or exi- 

 lipes 



Ira Gabrielson kindly reviewed my estimate of the redpolls col- 

 lected up to 1950 and Herbert Friedmann reviewed my distinction 

 of the whole collection of redpolls. 



A few hoary redpolls are resident at Anaktuvuk in winter. In 

 addition to four specimens taken in February and March, four mum- 

 mified birds taken in February and March were identified by com- 

 parison in the U. S. National Museum. I have seen redpolls in late 

 winter at Umiat under the alders, consuming seeds on the snow where 

 they had fallen from the cones. They also feed on the bushes, usually 

 moving rather rapidly and coherently as a scattered flock, the indi- 

 viduals acting nervously and the flock often flying together. I have 

 not obtained a winter specimen of flammea. In winter plumage 



