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Mr. H. F. Witherby on Birds 
5th, two contained fresh eggs and the third three young birds, 
just hatched, and one egg. On one of the nests with eggs 
we found the hen bird dead. The bird had evidently died 
“ egg-bound,” which is probably a rare occurrence in wild 
birds. 
We noticed a very remarkable variation in the size of the 
bills of the birds we shot. Of two males from the same little 
company, one had a large bill, the other a small bill. Two 
other males had large bills. Of four females shot, only one 
had a large bill, the others having very small bills, much 
smaller, indeed, than the smallest of the males. 
These birds were all shot in the same locality and within 
a few days of each other, and the variation in the size of the 
bills would seem, therefore, to be individual, and not seasonal 
or dietary. 
We obtained a specimen of L. Unarm at Elvenaes on the 
Syd-Yaranger in June; about 60 miles east of this point, at 
Petschenga, in July of the same year, Messrs. Pearson obtained 
L. exilipes only (Ibis, 1899, p. 526); about 60 miles east of 
Petschenga we obtained in August, at Ekaterina, L. linaria 
only; while about 150 miles east of Ekaterina the Pearson 
expeditition in June 1895 obtained at Lake Ukanskoe L. 
exilipes only. (Ibis, 1896, p. 208.) 
[Pleske records Pyrrhula major from Kandalax (Mela).] 
PlNICOLA ENUCLEATOR. 
The Pine-Grosbeak was not common in the pine-forests, 
but we found it much more plentiful among the birches at 
Kola beyond the region of pine. Pleske also found it among 
the birches near Kola as well as in the pine-forests further 
south. 
[Pleske has records of Loxia curvirostra at several points 
on our route, and a record of L. pityopsittacus from near 
Kandalax (Enwald).] 
Emberiza citrinella. 
The Yellow Bunting was fairly common from Kandalax to 
Pulozero, i. e. within the pine-region, north of which we did 
not observe it. 
