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Curvirostra americana (not Loxia americana Gmelin, 1788) Wilson, Am. Orn., iv, 

 1811, 44, pi. 31, figs. 1, 2.— Baihd, Rep. Pacific E. E. Surv., ix, 1858, 426, part 

 (Pennsylvania; New York; Fort Steilacoom and Shoalwater Bay, Washing- 

 ton); Cat. N.Am. Birds, 1859, no. 318. — Coopek and Suckley, Eep. Pacific 

 E. E. SuTv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 198 (coast of Washington). — Dall and Bannis- 

 TEH, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 281 (Sitka, Alaska).— Coopee, Orn. Cal., 

 1870, 148, part. 



[Curvirostra] americana Codes, Key N.Am. Birds, 1872, 129, part. 



Loxia americana (not Gmelin, 1788) Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 

 38. — Bonaparte and Schlegel, Mon. Lox., 1850, 5, pi. 6. — Sclater, Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 121 (Nova Scotia).— Finsch, Abh. Nat. Ver.Brem.,iii, 1872, 56 

 (coast of Alaska). — Baird, Bretveh, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 

 1874, pi. 23, figs. 1, 4.— Eidgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 455 (E. Humboldt 

 Mts., Nevada, August, Sept.). — Lanqdon, Birds Cincinnati, 1877, 8 (Hamil- 

 ton Co., Ohio, Nov. 30).— Brewer, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 50 (breed- 

 ing at Eandolph, Vermont; nesting habits). 



L. loxia} americana Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 888. — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 

 1850, 527. 



[Loxia curvirostra'] /S. americana Blasius, List Birds Europe (ed. Newton), 

 1862, 14. 



Loxia curvirostra . . . var. americana Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 143. 



L. [oxia] curvirostra . . . var. americana Eidgway, Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, Jan., 1874, 

 372 (Illinois in winter). 



Loxia curvirostra var. americana Baihd, Brewer, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 484, part.— Bicknell, Am. Nat., x, 1876, 237 (breeding at 

 Eiverdale, s. e. New York). — Jouy, Field and Forest, ii, 1877, 155 (District 

 Columbia). 



L. [oxia] curvirostra var. americana Nelson, Bull.- Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 105 

 (n. e. Illinois in winter). 



[Loxia curvirostra var. americana] b. americana Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 109. 



Loxia curvirostra americana Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, July, 1878, 117 

 (descr. supposed female juv. = female ad.?). — Bicknell, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, V, 1880, 7 (breeding at Eiverdale, s. e. New York; breeding habits; 

 descr. nest and eggs); Auk, i, 1884, 327 (song). — Smith, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 vi, 1881, 56 (Cumberland plateau, e. Tennessee, Aug.). — Eidgway, Nom. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1881, no. 172; Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., ii, 1884, 105 (crit.); Auk, i, 

 1884, 292 (Laurel, etc., Maryland, probably breeding). — Coues, Check List, 

 2d ed., 1882, no. 199.— Nelson, Cruise "Corwin," 1881 (1883), 66 (St. 

 Michael, Alaska, 1 spec). — Finsch, Journ. fiir Orn. 1883, 274 (Portage Bay, 

 Alaska, Feb.). — Browne, Auk, ii, 1885,105 (Framingham, e.. Massachusetts, 

 bTeeding). 



L. [oxia] curvirostra americana Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 349. 



[Loxia crucirostra] var. americana Dvsois, Bull. Mus. Eoy. Belg., i, Oct., 1882, 6, 

 part (synonymy; geog. range). 



Crucirostra minor Beehm, Naumannia, iii, 1853, 193, fig. 12 (coniferous forests of 

 United States; ex Loxia minor Lichtenstein, MS.). 



Loxia curvirostra minor Eidgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, Sept. 2, 1885, 354. — 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 521, part. — Brews- 

 ter, Auk, iii, 1886, 107 (Black Mts., North Carolina, above 5,000 feet in 

 summer). — Anthony, Auk, iii, 1886, 168 (n. w. Oregon). — Seton, Auk, iii, 

 1886, 322 (w. Manitoba in winter). — Turner, Contr. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 1886, 

 170 (St. Michael, Alaska, 1 spec. Aug. 4).— Nelson, Eep. Nat. Hist. Coll. 

 Alaska, 1887, 173 (coast Alaska south of peninsula).— Wayne, Auk, iv, 1887, 



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