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(District of Columbia, accidental). — Wheatox, Ohio Agric. Rep., 1860, no. 

 136 (Columbus, Ohio). — Lawkence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1866, 288 (vicinity 

 New York City).— Tuenbull, Birds E. Penn. and N. J., 1869, 21 (rare in 

 winter). — Sxow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 6 (Leavenworth, e. Kansas in winter). 

 P. [^inicola] enucleator . . . vtir. ccmadensis Ridgway, Ann. Lye. K. Y., x, Jan., 



1874, 371 (Illinois iu winter). 

 P. [inicola] enucleator canadensis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 388, part. 

 Pinicola enucleator canadensis Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 25, pi. 

 21, fig. 6 (P. enucleator on plate). —Ridgway, Auk, xv, Oct., 1898, 320 

 (crit. ). — American- Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xvi, 

 1899, 113. 



PINICOLA ENUCLEATOR ALASCENSIS Ridgway. 

 ALASKAN FINE GROSBEAK, 



Similai- to P. e. canadensh, but decidedlj' larger, with smaller or 

 shorter bill and paler coloration, both sexes having the gray parts of 

 the plumage distinctlj' lighter, more ashy. 



Admit male.— LL&s\gi\ (skins), 218.44-246.38 (227.33); wing, 112.01- 

 127.25 (117.09); tail, 84.84-102.62 (92.71); exposed culmen, 13.97- 

 15.24 (14.48); depth of bill at base, 11.68-12.95 (12.19); width of 

 maxilla at base, 9.91-10.41 (10.16); tarsus, 22.10-23.37 (22.86); middle 

 toe, 14.48-16.00 (15.24).^ - 



Adult female.— h^ng^h (skins), 195.68-220.98 (213.11); wing, 114.05- 

 120.40 (116.08); tail, 87.88-97.54 (98.47); exposed culmen, 14.48-15.49 

 (14.99); depth of bill at base, 11.68-12.70 (12.19); width of mandible 

 at base, 10.16-10.67 (10.41); tarsus, 22.35-23.37 (22.61); middle toe, 

 14.73-15.24 (14.99).' 



Northwestern North America, except Pacific coast, breeding in in- 

 terior of Alaska; south, in winter, to eastern Bi'itish Columbia, Mon- 

 tana' (Bitter root Valley), etc. 



Pinicola canadensis (not Corythus canadensis 'Brehra) Dall and Bannister, Trans. 



Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 281, part (Nulato and throughout Yukon Valley). — 



Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 151, part. 



P. [inicola'] enucleator canadensis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 388, part. 



Pinicola enucleator canadensis Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Columbia, 1891, 34, 



part (e. sideCascade Mts.). 

 [Mnicola] enucleator (not Loxia enucleator Linnaeus) CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 



1872, 127, part. 

 Pinicola enucleator Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 137, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 190, 

 part; Birds N. W., 1874, part. — Bated, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 453, part (Yukon district, Alaska). — (?) Bendiee, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H., xix, 1877, 116 (Camp Harney, e. Oregon, winter).— (?) McChes- 

 NEY, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 187 (Fort Sisseton, South Dakota, Jan. 

 6). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 166, part.— Nelson, Cruise 

 Corwin, 1881 (1883), 66 (head of Norton Sound, Alaska); Rep. Nat. Hist. 

 Coll. Alaska, 1887, 170, part (Alaska, north and east of Alaskan Mts.; 



' Ten specimens. ' Six specimens. 



