>
>Godfrey (Birds of Canada) gives a maximum wing chord length for breweri of
>62 mm; all the adult taverneri in the UBC collection range from 62-65 mm,
>most of them around 63. That should be a quick test. If anyone is really
>interested in the latest on this story, they should write Bruce
>McGillivray, Provincial Museum of Alberta, 12845-102 Ave., Edmonton, AB
>T5N 0M6.
>Richard J. Cannings cannings at bcu.ubc.ca


The bird we collected from MT Jefferson has the following measurements:

Rt wing 64 mm
Lt wing 66 mm
tail 58 mm
exposed culmen 9 mm
crown is tan to gray with very dark brown streaks
the back is the same
not much of a malar stripe
Throat and breast are uniform pale gray

The tag also reads: 7-19-92, Mt Jefferson Wilderness (5900ft),
Jefferson Co. OR

For those of you with Oregon DeLorme Atlases, that would be page 56, C-2
just east of Scout Lake.


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Mike Patterson, Astoria, OR
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