rmch WESTERN BIRDS 



HEPBURN'S ROSY FINCH. 

 L. t. littoralis. 



This subspecies breeds above timber line on moun- 

 tains from Alaska Peninsula east and south to Wash- 

 ington; wintering along the Pacific Coast and south- 

 eastward in mountains to Oregon, Nevada, Utah, and 

 Colorado; casual in Minnesota. It has the forehead and 

 fore-crown black, the sides and back of the head being 

 a clear ashy-gray. The female is somewhat paler and 

 duller in coloration. 



A bird known as the Black Rosy Finch (Leucosticte 

 atrata) breeds in the Salmon River Mountains, Idaho, 

 the Uintah Mountains, northern Utah, and probably 

 other northern ranges; wintering south to southern Utah, 

 Colorado, and southeastern Wyoming. 



This bird differs from the others in having a brown 

 forehead and crown and an ashy-gray nape. 



The Brown-capped Rosy Finch (L. australis) has no 

 gray on head but a reddish-brown crown. It breeds in 

 the highest mountains of Colorado and perhaps northern 

 New Mexico, wintering in the valleys of Colorado, and 

 southward into New Mexico. 



Chapman says that in juvenal plumage, Rosy Finches 

 are dull rusty gray below, browner above, with no crown 

 cap, no rose in the body plumage, and but little in the 

 wings or tail ; the greater coverts and inner wing feathers 

 are conspicuously margined with buffy or brownish. 



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