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 Jan., 1910 FOR BETTER DETERMINATION OF AGELAIUS 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 ubernator, 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 (otlter) 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: A. tricolor A. phoeniceus A. gubernalor i Average lo.4 11.00 3.47 4.24 Maximum 14.00 13.80 7.50 7.10 Minimum '7.70 8.10 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 terriaries 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 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 considereel 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 XX, 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.