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these are really immature birds is doubtful, and it has been suspected 

 that some males never acquire the red plumage.) ^ 



Young. — Wings and tail as in adult female; upper parts pale gray- 

 ish, more or less mixed or tinged with olive on back and scapulars 

 (sometimes almost white on head, neck, and rump), everywhere broadly 

 streaked with dusky; beneath whitish, usually more or less tinged 

 with olive, conspicuously streaked with dusky or dusky olive. 



Northern and eastern Xorth America, breeding in coniferous forest 

 districts from southern Alleghanies in northern Georgia (sporadically 

 toward coast in Maryland, Virginia, etc.), Michigan, etc., to Nova 

 Scotia, to Fort Anderson in the interior, and to western Alaska, and 

 southward through Pacific coast district to western Oregon; in winter 

 irregularly southward to South Carolina (vicinity of Charleston); Lou- 

 isiana (Mandeville, New Orleans, etc.); Nevada (East Humboldt Moun- 

 tains), etc.; casually to the Bermudas. 



Loxia . . curvirostra (not Linnseus) Forstee, Philos. Trans., Ixii, 1772, 402 

 (Severn River). 



Loxia curvirostra Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 264.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. 

 U. S. and Canad., i, 1832, 583.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 559; v, 1839, 511, 

 pi. 197; Synopsis, 1839, 128; Birds Am., Oct. ed., iii, 1841, 186, pi. 200.— J ae- 

 DiNE, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., ii, 1832, 37, pi. 31, iigs. 1, 2. — Huedis, Jardine's 

 Contr. Orn., 1850, 37 (Bermudas, 1 spec. Jan., 1849). — Shahpe, Catt Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xii, 1888, 435, part. 



' The same question applies to so-called immature males of Pinicola, Carpodcicus, etc. 

 Considering the very great extent of country inhabited exclusively by this small 

 form, the considerable variations of size and coloration observable seem to be purely 

 individual and not at all correlated with difference of locality. The following aver- 

 age measurements of several series, grouped according to locality, will serve to show 

 that there is certainly no material variation of size according to latitude: 



