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color at extreme base; feet brownish flesh color, with under side of 
toes yellowish; claws brown. In the dry skin3 the bills are uni¬ 
formly •plumbeous-black. 
Adult female (Nos. 202265 and 210771, U.S.National Museum, topt- 
types taken May 27 and 30, respectively).- Exactl liice the male, 
except that the outer web of the innermost secondary is edged ex¬ 
ternally with yellowish orange instead of orange-vermilion. 
Comparison with Pyrrhula ieucogenys.- The material used in mak¬ 
ing the comparison with Pyrrhula Ieucogenys consists of two adult fe¬ 
males of P. leucogonus, one (No. 172435 U.S.N.1S.) a topotype col¬ 
lected by Mr. John Whitehead, in Lepanto Province, Luzon, P. I., the 
other (No. 208,435 U.S.N.M.)oollected by the author near Paoay, Ben- 
guet Province, Luzon, P. I. The first was killed December 19, 1894, 
the second July 28, 1907. The December bird is in fresher plymage 
and somewhat darker and browner than the July specimen. The two 
localities were in sight of each other, perhaps twenty miles apart. 
In both of the Luzon birds the bills still show a large amount of 
yellow, as shown in Mr. ?:euleman»s excellent figures of the male and 
female (Plate XIV) published in the Ibis for 1895, opposite page 455. 
From a female specimen of P. Ieucogenys (No. 208435 U.S.N.M.), just 
shot, I noted the following: Iris grayish brown; bill yellowish horn 
color, broadly black on commissural line and at tip; feet brownish 
flesh color, claws darker brown. 
Comparative measurements of fresh e vecimons (by the author).- No. 
210771, U.8.National Museum, an adult female topotype of Pyrrhula 
whiteheadi, and No. 208435, an adult female of P. Ieucogenys , £rom 
jigar the type locality, presented the following measurements: Length, 
152-168; alar expanse, 242-259; wing, 77-82; tail, 65-71; culmen 
(chord), 10.5-11.3; tarsus, 17.5 - 18.5; middle toe with its claw, 
