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Interior of British North America. 
may be found on the Saskatchawan, as there is a specimen in 
the Smithsonian Institution from the Blackfoot country, which 
lies on the Upper Missouri, and stretches northward across the 
international boundary. 
59. Chrysomitris pinus. (See ‘ Ibis/ vol. iv. p. 6.) 
I do not know of the Pine Pinch having been obtained in the 
interior previously to my specimen from the Saskatchawan. 
CtJRVIROSTRA LEUCOPTERA. 
The White-winged Crossbill is given in the ‘ Fauna Bor.-Am/ 
as inhabiting the “ dense spruce-forests ” of the north; Mr. 
Murray records it from Hudson's Bay, and Mr. Boss gives it as 
a winter bird on the Mackenzie. Pine-woods being scarce on 
the Upper Saskatchawan, I did not fall in with it. 
/Egiothus linaria. 
/Egiothus canescens. 
Five specimens in my collection, obtained at Fort Carlton in 
the months of November, December, January, and March, were 
omitted in the original list Ibis/ vol. iv. No. 13), on account 
of the difficulty of deciding to which species they belonged. 
Neither can I now pretend to determine, as the specimens have 
not been returned from Washington; but only say that, from 
Professor Baird having one from Bed Biver Settlement in the 
Smithsonian Institution, which he considers to be AE. canescens of 
Gould, and Mr. Boss giving both on the Mackenzie, we may 
presume that two species inhabit the interior. Mr. Murray has 
also satisfied himself that a specimen from Hudson's Bay is 
Linota borealis=canescens (Gould). I think the best I can do 
is to say only that a species of Bedpole is a winter resident on the 
Saskatchawan, where it is common enough, and leave this much- 
disputed question alone*. 
Leucosticte tephrocotis. 
The Grey-crowned Finch was described in the { Fauna Bor.- 
Am.' from a specimen killed on the Saskatchawan in May. I 
know nothing more about it. 
* Mr. Coues’s Monograph of the AEgiotki, of which we have spoken in 
our last volume (‘ Ibis,’ 1862, p. 186), should be consulted on this point. 
Probably Capt. Blakiston’s specimens may be referable to AS. exilipes , 
Mr. Coues’s new species.— Ed. 
