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of the back in adult males much less distinct than in P. e. canadensis 

 and its northwestern relative, P. e. alascensis. P. e. flammula is a 

 little more brightly colored than P. e. enudeator, however, or the red, 

 if not more intense, is of an appreciably purer hue. The female and 

 immature (?) male has, usually, much less of an olive-yellowish wash 

 on the breast, though the golden olive of the head and neck are brighter, 

 and there is much more of golden olive on the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts than in P. e. eniteleator. 



The much larger, stouter, and more hooked bill alone will serve to 

 readily distinguish this coast form from the two more southern moun- 

 tain forms, P. e. calif ornica and P. e. montana.] 



Pinicola canadensis (not of Cabanis) Brown, Ibis, 1868, 423 (Fort Rupert, Van- 

 couver I., winter). — Ball and Banxistee, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 

 281, part (Kodiak and Sitka, Alaska).— (?) Coopee, Orn. Cal., 1870, 151 

 part (Kodiak). 

 (?) Pinicola enucleator canadensis Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 34, 



part (w. side Cascades). 



Pinicola enucleator (not Loxia enucleator Linnseus) Finsch, Abh. Nat. Forh.,iii, 



. 1872, 54 (Kodiak; crit); Journ. fiir Orn., 1883, 274 (Chilcoot, Alaska, Jan., 



Mar.; Portage Bay).— CouES, Check List, 1873, no. 137, part; Birds N. W., 



1874, 104, part. — Baird, Beewee, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 



453, part (Sitka and Kodiak, Alaska). — American Ornithologists' Union, 



Check List, 1886, no. 515, part.— Nelson, Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 



170, part (Sitka and Kodiak, Alaska; crit. ) .^ — (?) Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 



Phila., 1893, 47, 63, part (w. side of Cascades, Brit. Columbia) . 



Pinicola flammula Homeyee, Journ. fiir Orn., xxviii, July, 1880, 156 (" Nordwest- 



amerika;" coll. von Homeyer). 

 Pinicola enucleator flammula Stejneger, Auk, i, Apr. , 1884,149, footnote. — Ridg- 

 way, Auk, XV, Oct., 1898, 320 (crit.). — American Ornithologists' Union 

 Committee, Auk, xvi, 1899, 114 (Check List, no. 515d). 

 P. [inicola} enucleator kodiaka Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, Sept., 1887, 388 (Ko- 

 diak Island, Alaska; U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 Pinicola enucleator kodiaka Chapman, Auk, v, 1888, 397. — Ridgway, Man. N, 



Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 613. 

 Pinicola enucleator kadiaka Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 592. 



PINICOLA ENUCLEATOR CALIFORNICA Price. 

 CALIFORNIA FnrE GROSBEAK. 



Similar to P. e. flammula, but slightly smaller, with the bill much 

 smaller and proportionatel}^ very much narrower; adult male with the 

 red color less extended and less uniform, especially on under parts, 

 and interscapulars with dusky centers obsolete or wanting; adult female 

 with very little if any olive tinge to gray of rump and upper tail- 

 coverts. 



Adult mafe.— Length (skin), 196.85;' wing, 109.98-114.81 (113.54);' 



^ Both this form and the interior Alaskan race are well characterized by Mr. Nel- 

 son, but he unfortunately neglected to name them. 



* One specimen. ' Five specimens. 



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