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NUKTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



wing-coverts, and quills edged witli rose-red, more or less continuous (least so on the 

 rump) ; tiie outer edges of secondaries and tail-feathers pale fulvous, the latter with a rosy 

 shade. Head silvery-gray ; the forehead and patch on crown black ; the chin gray, con- 

 tinuous with that of cheek ; the throat dark brown, shading into the chocolate of breast. 

 Bill yellowish, the extreme tip dusky. Nasal feathers wlyte. Length, 7.10 ; wing. 4.30; 

 tail, 3.10 ; exposed portion of first primary, 3.40. Length of bill from forehead, .GO ; from 

 no.stril, .35. Tarsus, .70. 



Hah. Kodiak (Bischoff) ; Sitka (BiseiioFF) ; Fort Simpson, British Columbia (Hep- 

 burn) ; Gilmer, Wyomiug (Durkee). 



This race, which we believe to be tlie Southern coast representative ofgrisci- 

 micJia, bears much resemblance to that bird, but is considerably smaller ; the 

 colors are brighter and lighter, more like those of tephrocotu:, and the bill is 

 shorter and more conical, the dark patcli on the head more restricted, tlie chin 

 more ashv, and the bro^vn of tlie head not so far forward. From tcphrocotis 

 it is distinguished by tlie e.xtension of tlie ash of head below the eye ; and from 

 campestris by having the ear-covei-ts ashy, instead of the anterior portion of 

 the cheeks only ; and tliere is apparently a greater extent of gray on the chin. 



Specimens obtained at Kodiak in February are distinguishable from speci- 

 mens of ffrmimicha, obtained with them at the same place, only by their 

 much smaller size, and ligliter chocolate tints. The occurrence of both these 

 races at tlie same place, at the same time, is a subject for speculation. A 

 perfectly typical specimen (No. 59,906) is in the collection from Gilmer, 

 Wyoming Territory, obtained by Mr. H. R. Durkee, a frequent contributor 

 to the collections of the Smithsonian Institution, and sent by him along with 

 numerous specimens of L. tephrocotis, with which it appears to have been 

 mixed. 



Leucosticte tephrocotis, var. griseinucha, U.vikd. 



THE GKiY-EARED FINCH. 



Passer nrdous, var. 7, Pallas, Zoog. Rosso-asiat. II (1831), 23. Fringilla (Liiuirm) grisei- 

 nucha, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersburg, Nov. 1841, 36. Montifringilla {Leucos- 

 ticte) griseiuuclm, Bon. & Schl. Mon. Loxiens (1850), 35, jil. xli. Leucosticte grisei- 

 nucha, Baird, Birds N. Am. 430. — KirrLiTZ, Denkwiirdigki'iten (1858), I, 291. — 

 Ball & Bannister, Tr. Ch. Ac. Sc. I, 1869, 282. — Baird, Ib. p. 317, pi. x.\™i, 

 f. 2. — Elliot, Illust. Am. B. pi. xi. — Cooi'Er, Om. Cal. I, 161. Leucosticte 

 griseigenys, Gould, Voy. Suljiliur. 



Sp. CnAR. Description of .specimen No. 54,246 : General color dark brownish-choco- 

 late anteriorly, the feathers of back rather darker in the centre, and with paler edges. 

 Forehead and crown Ijlack ; rest of the head, includmg the cheeks and ears, of a i-ather 

 silvery gray ; throat blackish, shading oft" insensibly into the chocolate of breast. Feathers 

 of abdomen (and hinder part of breast to a less degree), flanks and crissum, with the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts, and lesser and middle wing-coverts, tipped with dark pomegranate 

 or rose-red, allowing more or less of thin dusky bases to be seen, especially above, where 

 there is an appearance of bars. Wing and tail feathers brown, nearly all, including the 

 greater wing-coverts, edged with pale yellowi.sh-gray with only a faint tinge of rose. Bill 

 dusky ; darkest at tip. Legs black, 



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