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Pyrrhula coccinea, var. cassini Baikd, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 316, pi. 29, 

 fig. 1 (Nulato, Alaska; IT. S. Nat. Mus.). — Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chi- 

 cago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 281 (Nulato).— Coues, Check List, 1874, p. 127. 



Pyrrhula cassmi Tristram, Ibis., April, 1871, 231 (crit.).— Cab amis, Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1871, 318; 1873, 315 (crit.).— Finsch, Abh. Nat. Ver. Bremen, iii, 1872, 

 54. — Baird, Am. Nat., vii, 1873, 239 (Lake Baikal, Siberia; crit.). — Taczan- 

 owsKi, Journ. fiir Orn., 1873, 95 (e. Siberia); 1874, 39 (crit. ).— CouES, 

 Check List, 1873, no. 138; 2d ed., 1882, no. 19L— Baird, Brewer, and 

 Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 457, pi. 23, fig. 11; iii, 1874, 508 

 (Lake Baikal, etc.). — Dybowski, Journ. fiir Orn., 1874, 39 (Kultuk, Dauria; 

 crit.). — Dresser, Birds Europe, iv, 1876, 100, part. — Ridgway,' Nom. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1881, no. 167. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 



1886, no. 516.— Turner, Contr. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 1886, 169, pi. 7.— Nelson, 

 Eep. Nat'Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 172.— Stejneger, Proc.U. S. Nat. Mua.,x, 



1887, 104 (synonymy; crit.).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.,xii, 1888, 451 

 (Onon River and Kultuk, Lake Baikal, Siberia). 



[Pyrrhuki] cassinii Coues, Key X. Am. Birds, 1872, 128. 



P-lyrrhula} cassini Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 344. — Ridgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 389. 



Pyrrhula cineracea Caeanis, Journ. fiir Orn., xx, July, 1872, 316 (Lake Baikal, 

 e. Siberia; Berlin Mus.); 1873, 314 (crit); 1877, 223.— Dybowski, Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1874, 40, pi. 1 (crit.).— Severzow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1875, 173.— 

 Taozanowski, Journ. fiir Orn., 1875, 254 (Ussuri); 1881, 185 (Kultuk, 

 Dauria; Ussuri) ; Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, 183; 1880, 138.— Gould, Birds 

 Asia, V, 1875, pi. 40. — Dresser, Birds Europe, iv, 1876, 100, part. — Homeyee, 

 Journ. fur Orn., 1879, 178 (crit.).— Stetnegee, N. Mag. Naturv., 1881, 115.— 

 Bolau, Journ. fiir Orn., 1882, 334. — Seebohm, Ibis, 1882, 424 (Krasnoyarsk, 

 Onon River, Siberia; Askold Island, near Vladivostok; Turkestan; Asia 

 Minor) . 



Pyrrhula nipalensis (not of Hodgson) Severzow, Turkest. Jevotn., 1873, 64, 117. 



Pyrrhula cineracea pallida Seebohm, Ibis, 5th ser., v, Jan., 1887, 101, in text 

 (Altai Mountains and Ussuri Valley) . 



Genus PINICOLA Vieillot. 



Pinicola Vieillot, Ois. Am., Sept., i, 1807, p. iv. (Type, P. ?-u6ro yieUlot,= 

 Loxia enucleator Linnseus. ) 



SlrobUophaga Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 29. (Type, Dur-Bec B\ifion,= Loxia enu- 

 cleator Linnseus.) 



"Strobiliphaga Boie." 



Corythus Cuvier, RSgne Anim., i, 1817, 301. (Type, Loxia enucleator Linnseas.) 



Enucleator Brehm, Vogelf., 1855, 89. (Type, Loxia enucleator Linnaeus.) 



"Bensirostra Wood" (Gray, Gen. Birds, 1855, 81). 



Very large (more than 177 mm. long) arboreal finches with long wings 

 and tail; very short, broad, and thick bill with culmen strongly curved 

 and tip of maxilla hooked, and small feet; the plumage mostly plain, 

 without streaks or spots on under parts; the adult males in full plum- 

 age more or less red. 



Bill short, broad, and thick, with the culmen strongly convex from 

 the base, its width at the base nearly, equal to the distance from the 

 nostril to the tip of the maxilla; width of mandible at base little if any 

 greater than length of gonys, the latter nearly sti'aight, with the basal 



