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THE CONDOR 
1 Vol. HI 
New Alaskan Birds * 
RICHARD C. MCGREGOR. 
l/cucosticte kadiaka sp. nov. 
Sp. Char. — Similar to Leucosticte griseonucha but with smaller bill and smaller, weaker 
feet and claws. 
Type — ad., No. 3048. McGregor Coll., Karluk, Kadiak Island, Alaska; March 14, 1897; 
collected by Cloudsley Rutter. 
Plabitat — Kadiak Island, Alaska. 
Specimens at hand are in such worn plumage that wing and tail measurements 
are worthless. In spring birds from Karluk the bill is dark horn color, while in 
November examples it is yellow with a dark tip. Measurements in hun- 
dredths of an inch are here given for three males from Ainaknak and four males 
from Kadiak. 
Itxp. Culmen 
Bill from nostril 
Middle toe with claw 
L. griseomicha. 
•54 
•42 
•97 
kadiaka. 
.48 
.38 
.88 
Melospiza sanaka sp. nov. 
Sp. Char. — Similar to Mclospiza cinerea but bill longer and mor^ slender, middle toe 
with claw shorter. 
Type — No. 3361. McGregor Coll., .Sanak Island, Alaska; June 13, 1894; collected bj- 
C. Littlejohn. Exposed culmen, .61; bill from nostril, .48; middle toe with claw, 1.02. 
Habitat. — Sanak and Popoff Islands, Alaska. 
The Sanak birds at hand are all in worn spring plumage so that they cannot 
be compared with my fall birds from Dutch Harbor which are in fresh plumage. 
Mr. Chase Littlejohn kindly let me use his series of skins from Sanak. 
The following table of measurements shows the amount and character of 
difference in size of the two forms. 
Measurements of Jfelospiza cinerea and M. sanaka 
Sanak 
Amaknak 
Five examples of each. 
Average 
Extremes 
Average 
Extremes 
Ex]), culmen p) 
.60 
• 58- -63 
•57 
• 54'-58 
Exj). culmen $ 
•59 
• 57--63 
•56 
.54-.60 
Bill from nos. ^ 
.48 
• 47--49 
•44 
• 44--45 
Bill from nos. $ 
.48 
.46-. 5 1 
•45 
• 43--47 
Mid. toe with claw (5 
1.03 
1.01-1.06 
1.07 
1. 06-1 .08 
* An author’s edition of too copies was di.stributed Nov. 25, 1900. 
