5Q4 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



A. Auriculars chocolatu-brown. 



1. Whole side of head below the eye, including the auriculars. choco- 

 late-brown. Chin not bordered anteriorly with ash. In the bieediuf,'- 

 season, head darker and ash wanting. Wing, 4.35 ; tail, 3.00 ; bill .44 ; 



tarsus, .72. Hab. Interior regions of North America. .' var. i e ph r uc.ot is . 



2. Cheeks, lores, and anterior border of the chin ash-color. Wing, 4.00 ; 

 tail, 2.80; bill, .44; tarsus, .70. Hah. Colorado and Wyoming Terri- 

 tories .......... var. c a vip estris. 



B- Auriculars ash-color. 



3. Wing, 4.30 ; tail, 3.00; bill, .40; tarsus (?). Chocolate of the breast, 

 etc., light, exactly as in tephrocotis ; rose beneath restricted to the abdo- 

 men ; lores and chin light ash. Hab. Northwest coast from Kodiak to 



Fort Simpson, east to Wyoming Territory . . . var. littoralis. 



4. Wing, 4.60 ; tail, 3.40 ; bill, .40 ; tarsus, .78. Chocolate very dark, 

 inclining to sepia ; rose e.xtending forward on to the breast; lores black- 

 ish ; chin dusky gray . Hab. Aleutian Islands (St. George's, Unalaschka. 



and Kodiak) yar. gris ei n uch a. 



A closely allied species^ from Kamtschatka and the Kurile I.sland differs 

 mainly in having tlie nasal feathers as well as the head blackish, but with- 

 out distinct patch on the top, and the nape rusty, in contrast with the back. 

 Tt is about the size of L. tephrocotis. This species maj' yet be detected in 

 the westernmost Aleutians. 



Leucosticte tephrocotis,- swainson. 



GKAY-CROWNED FINCH. 



Liiuiria (Lcucoslicte) tephrocotis, Sw. F. Bor. Am. U, ]s:51, 2.5.5, pi. 1. Ltncostictc tephro- 

 cotis, Sw. Birds II, 1S37. — BoN. Consp. 1850, 536. — B.4iitu, Staiisbury's Salt Lake, 

 1852, 317. — Ib. Birds X. .\m. 18,58, 430. — Cooper, Orn. Cal. I, 164. Erythro.ynza 

 tephrocotis, BoN. List, 1838. — Arn. Syn. 1839.— In. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 17G, pi. 

 cxcviii. Frinyilla tephrocotis, Ari>. Orn. Bing. V. 1839, 232, pi. ccccx.xiv. 



Sp. Char. (No. 19,2,55.) Male in winter. General color dark chocolate-brown or 

 umber, lighter and more cliestnut below ; the feathers to a considerable degree with paler 

 edges (most evident in immature specimen.';), these of back with d.arker centre.?. Nasal 

 bristly feathers, and those along base of maxilla, and the hind head to nape ash-gray, this 

 color forming a square patch on top of head, and not extending below level of eyes. A 



' Lcucoslicte brunucinucha. FringiUa (Linaria) bruniicinucha, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. 

 Pi-tersburg, 1841, 35. MotUif ring ilia (Lcucosticlc) brumieiiiudui, Box. & Sciii.f.gel, Mon. 

 Loxiens, 1850, 36, pi. xUi. 



^ As this sheet is going through the prcs-s, we have been pennitted by Mr. J. A. Allen to 

 examine a series of birds, obtained hy him in July, 1871, on Mt. Lincoln, Colorado, above the 

 timber line, where they were breeding abundantly. Although very dillerent from winter L. 

 te])hrocolis, they yet strongly suggest the idea of their being that species in summer dress. They 

 present the following characteristics : — 



Breeding 2}lii.ma(jc. Differing from the stage first described above, in entire absence of any ash 

 about the head, and in deep black, instead of yeUo\vi.sh bill. ^ with the red tints intense 

 carmine, instead of peaeli-blossom pink, that of the abdomen extending farther forward. 9 lack- 

 ing the red, or with only a tinge of it. Hood dark vandyke-brown, becoming nearly black on 



