. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 454 NoliTll AMKUK'AN PiiiUola tnucUnlor. A considornlile niimliei' nl' sin'ciiiicns fniiii KiMliak (jiorlKips to I)i> foniid in otliei' localities on tlu; iioi'tliwc' coast) L'oinpun'd with iMsteni have coiispic- uously laryer l), almost t'(|ual to nrrdiiiK/is in this rospect. In No. r»4,4l>r) tlic. tVuni luroliead is .SO; from , .oO ; from ^aju', .))(!: Ljonys, .40 ; greatest depth, ..")!. lu ,i l>rooklyn skin (ll',84()) the same measiiiements
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 454 NoliTll AMKUK'AN PiiiUola tnucUnlor. A considornlile niimliei' nl' sin'ciiiicns fniiii KiMliak (jiorlKips to I)i> foniid in otliei' localities on tlu; iioi'tliwc' coast) L'oinpun'd with iMsteni have coiispic- uously laryer l), almost t'(|ual to nrrdiiiK/is in this rospect. In No. r»4,4l>r) tlic. tVuni luroliead is .SO; from , .oO ; from ^aju', .))(!: Ljonys, .40 ; greatest depth, ..")!. lu ,i l>rooklyn skin (ll',84()) the same measiiiements are from forehead, .OO; from nostril, .44; from gajje, .GO; gonys, .:\4; great- est deptli, .40. A Saskatchewan skin is intermediate. A European s])eci- nien has the hill as long as that from Kodiak, but less swollen. A Hima- layan species ((.'. atihliiindrluth'tt) is nuicli smallei', and dilferently coh)red. Tliese Kodiak si)ecimens ap})roach the Kurofjcan l)ird more nearly in form of the hill, in which there is a tendency to a more ahrui)tly hooked upper niandihlo than in the birds from the eastern jiortions of British America. As a general thing, the reil tint is lirighter in American thai in European birds. ;. The i'ine (irosbeak is, to a large extent, a resident of the por- tions of North America north of the United States. In the northern pai'ta of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and ^Nlaine, as well as in western America, it is found throughout the ycai' in the dark evergreen lon^sts. In the winter it is an irregular visitant as far soutii as I'iiiladelithia, being in some seasons very abundant, and again for .several winters (juite rare. jNFr. I'oardman mentions it as abiuidant, in the winter, aliout Calais, mid Mr. Verrill gives it as (piito common in the vicinity of Norway. It is found every winter more or less freipiently in Eastern IMassachusetts, though ]\Ir. Allen regards it as rare in the vicinity of Sj)ringfield. It is not cited by Dr. Cooper as a b
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