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Nile blue with a possible greenish tinge, dotted and spotted with 

 pale lavender, drab and sepia. The markings are very unevenly- 

 distributed, the small ends of the eggs being nearly immaculate, 

 while there is a conspicuous wreath about the large ends. The 

 markings are not abruptly defined, but the margins of the spots 

 are distinct, fading out into the surrounding ground colour. One 

 of the eggs is more thickly and evenly sprinkled with various 

 tints of bistre. The eggs are rather ovate in shape, but the small 

 ends are blunt. On June nth, in the Kowak delta, I found a 

 similarly constructed nest containing four small young ; this was 

 six feet up in a dwarf spruce, and on the I2th, I found another 

 nest in all particulars like the other two, and containing four eggs 

 almost ready to hatch. My series of 44 skins of P. e. alascensis 

 confirms the distinctness of that race ; the Kowak River birds 

 present an extreme of ashness. {Gfinnell) 



5i5d. KadiakPine Grosbeak. 



— Pinicola enucleator flammula (Homeyer) Ridgw. 1898. 



Island of Kadiak, Alaska, and Alaskan coast southward at least 

 to Sitka [probably coast of British Columbia at least in winter.]^ 

 {Ridgway^ 



CLXXXV. PYRRHULA Brisson. 1760. 



516. Cassin's BuUfincli. 



Pyrrhulacassini (Baird) Trist'Am. 1871. 



The presence of this bird in the North American fauna rests 

 solely upon the capture of a specimen at Nulato on the middle 

 Yukon, January loth, 1867, by Mr. Dall. (Nelson) 



On July 19th, 1879, in the northern waters of Cumberland Gulf, 

 Mr. Ludwig Kumlien saw a bird which he could not secure and 

 which in his opinion was either this species or Pyrrhula europcea, 

 possibly the latter. We have been unable to obtain any further 

 records. 



CLXXXVI. CARPODACUS Kaup. 1829. 



SI'?. Purple Pinch. 



Carpodacus purpureus (Gmel.) Gray. 1844. 

 Kumlien obtained a specimen on shipboard off Resolution Is- 

 land ; Drexler obtained it at Moose Factory May 28th, i860 ; 



