Jan., 1910 
FOR BETTER DETERMINATION OF AGEE AI US TRICOLOR 
41 
In addition to these, we now call attention to the following: 
Male and female, 4th primary always shorter than 1st (outer). This charac- 
teristic of tricolor has proved constant in the examination of our series of 23 males 
and 19 females and a few other available specimens, and in markt distinction to 
phoeniceus and gubernator , the examination of 146 specimens of these showing the 
4th primary to be equal to, or longer than, the 1st, usually longer. 
In the above mentioned material, in tricolor the minimum difference between 
the 1st (outer) primary and the 5th was found to be materially greater than the 
maximum difference in the other forms, and as shown in millimeters in the follow- 
ing table: 
Average 
Maximum 
Minimum 
6 
? 
5 
? 
5 
? 
A. tricolor 
10.74 
11.00 
14.00 
13.80 
7.70 
8.10 
A. phoeniceus 1 
A. gubernator \ 
o.47 
4.24 
7.50 
7.10 
0.00 
1.50 
In submitting the accompanying photographs of wings, attention is also called 
to the markt difference in the gradation from the primaries to the tertiaries in 
tricolor as compared to that in the other two forms. As these photographs were 
taken from dried skins, they do not show the wings to the best advantage, but 
sufficiently so for the purposes of this article. 
MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS FROM ALASKA 
By JOSEPH GRINNELL 
T HE Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of California contains a 
considerable proportion of Alaskan birds. Some of these, from particular 
regions, have already been reported upon in special papers, and some, from 
well-known localities, are not considered worthy of record. But there remain the 
following listed species which, because of interesting date or locality of capture, ap- 
pear to deserve record. These selected specimens are from a variety of sources, 
chief of which are the natural history collections obtained by Chas. L. Hall' from 
1894 to 1901 at various points in Alaska and at Forty-mile, Yukon Territory. The 
birds from the latter place I have listed in a separate paper (Condor xi, 1909, pp. 
202-207). There are also a number of birds secured by Allen E. Hasselborg in the 
spring and fall of 1908 in the Yakutat Bay district. All the species enumerated 
herewith are from points in Alaska. 
Limosa lapponica baueri. Pacific Godwit. Six adults (nos. 4815-4820), St. 
Michael, May 20 and 22, 1896; two adults (nos. 4821, 4822), Unalaska, May 29 
and June 4, 1894; C. L. Hall. 
Limosa haemastica. Hudsonian Godwit. Adult female (no. 4823), St. 
Michael, May 22, 1896, C. L- Hall; two immature females (nos. 7105, 7106), Kenai, 
July 26, 1906; A. Seale. 
Totanus melanoleucus. Greater Yellow-legs. Full-grown juvenal male (no. 
7111), Kenai, July 26, 1906; A. Seale. 
