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ture, never again be at hand. The material is as much lost as is the dodo. Is 
it not time for many of us collectors and preparators to about face, and be sei- 
entific and efficient in action as well as in aspiration and reputation ? 
Denver, Colorado, March 4, 1922. 
NOTES ON THE AMERICAN PINE GROSBEAKS 
WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SUBSPECIES 
By ALLAN .BROOKS 
OME ten years ago I received from Mr. C. deB. Green several pine gros- 
beaks that he had taken near Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands. These 
were quite unlike any of the North American pine grosbeaks I had seen and 
I identified them as Pinicola enucleator flammula Homeyer. When in Wash- 
ington in November, 1920, I had the opportunity of examining the series of 
that subspecies from the type locality in the national collection, and it was ob- 
vious that the Queen Charlotte bird was a distinct subspecies, quite the best 
differentiated of all the American forms. 
I have refrained from describing it for a number of reasons, chiefly in the 
hopes of increasing my series, which had been reduced to three skins. Over 
a dozen have passed through my hands, however, besides a number of others 
seen in life which I did not shoot, as Mr. Green wished to take their eggs. As 
there does not seem any immediate probability of acquiring further material 
T shall describe the subspecies herewith. 
Pinicola enucleator carlottae. new subspecies 
Queen Charlotte Pine Grosbeak 
Type.—Male, red adult, no number, collection of Allan Brooks; Masset, Graham 
Tsland, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia; June 2, 1920; Allan Brooks. collector. 
Subspecific characters.—Smallest and darkest of all the American subspecies; 
tail much shorter than in the other American races. Red of male deeper and more scar- 
let (less of a carmine); yellow of females and old males darker and suffusing the entire 
plumage more or less, except the center of belly, lower tail coverts, and under wings and 
tail: 
Description.—Red male (type): Distribution of colors as in red males of this 
genus, the red nearest the “‘nopal red’; the interscapular feathers yk dark brown cen- . 
ters; scapulars ‘dark mouse gray”; belly and flanks “mouse gray’; wings and tail 
“fuscous black”, outer edges of all the feathers, except tertials. “mars orange’; white 
markings of wings much restricted, the two bars on coverts tinged with rose. the edgings 
to tertials very narrow and grayish; lower tail coverts edged with whitish, their centers 
“deep mouse gray”. 
Iris brown. upper mandible black, lower dark brownish gray; feet brownish black. 
Measurements (average of two males): Length (skins) 193 millimeters, wing 109. tail 
79.5, culmen 14.5, depth of bill at base 10.5, width of mandible at base 9.3, tarsus 20.5. 
Female: Coloration as in females of the genus, but the yellow areas more ex- 
tensive and the color much darker. Yellow of head nearest to ‘“orange-citrine” but more 
red, of rump and upper tail coverts, brighter and more yellow; the breast, flanks, and 
interscapulars overlaid with a strong wash of “orange-citrine’’, and the feathers of wings 
and tail, except tertials, edged with same; tertials edged with ash gray; chin buffy: 
