^8 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



broadl}" edged with brighter Imfiy: wings otherwise, and tail, mueh 

 as in adult female. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 145.03-164.85 (154.18): wing, 101.60- 

 111.76 (107.95); tail, 60.71-72.64(66.55); exposed culmen, 10.16-12.70 

 (11.68); depth of bill at base, 8.38-8.89 (8.64): tarsus, 18.29-20.57 

 (19.81); middle toe, 13.97-15.24 (14.48).^ 



Female.— hength {skins), 143.00-156.21 (149.10): wing, 99.06-108.20 

 (103.63); tail, 60. 96-68. 5 S (64.52); exposed culmen, 11.43-11.94 (11.68); 

 depth of bill at base (one specimen), 8.13; tarsus, 18.80-19.81 (19.30); 

 middle toe, 13.72-14.99 (14.22).' 



Breeding above timber line on high mountains of Colorado (Mount 

 Lincoln, Mount Harvard, Mount Evans, Red Mountains, etc.); de 

 scending to lower valleys and plains and south to New Mexico (Mount 

 Blanco, etc.) in winter. 



Leucosticte griseinucJia (not Fringilla griseonuoha Brandt) Allex, Am. Nat., vi, 

 June, 1872, 350 (Mount Lincoln, Colorado, above timber line). 



Leucosticte tephrocotis (not of Swainson) Allen, Am. Nat., vi, 1872, 162, 284 (Mount 

 Lincoln, Colorado, breeding); Bull. Mus. Coinp. Zool., iii, no. 6, 1872, 121 (in 

 text), 162, 177, part (mountains of Colorado above timber line). — Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. B., i, 1874, 504, 505, footnote, pi. 23, fig. 

 9 (supposed breeding dress). 



{Leucosticte tephrocotis'] a. tephrocotis Coues, Birds N. AV., 1874, 111 (part; see espe- 

 cially footnote). 



Leucosticte tephrocotis, var. austrcdis Allen, Ridcjway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 

 1873, 189 (Mount Lincoln, Colorado; coll. ]Mus. Comp. Zool. ) ; Dec, 1873, 197 

 (redescribed).^BAiRD, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. B., iii, 1874, 

 App., p. 509 (descriptions). 



Leucosticte austrcdis Ridgway', Bull. LT. S. Geol. and Geog. Survey Terr., 2d ser., no. 

 2, May 11, 1875, 79 (monographic); Field and Forest, iii, 1877, 198 (Colo- 

 rado); Nom. N. Am. B., 1881, no. 177. — Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's 

 Surv., 1873 (1874), 79 (South Park, Mount Harvard, Mount Evans, Red Mts., 

 etc., Colorado, July; habits); Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 249, pis. 5, 6 

 (South Park, Colorado; Mount Blanco, New Mexico, Sept. ). — Coues, Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 202.— Drew, Auk, ii, 1885, 16 (Colorado, breeding from 

 12,000-13,500 ft.; in winter, 6,000-10,000 ft.).— American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 526.— Anthony, Auk, iv, 1887, 257 (Boulder Co., 

 Colorado, Jan.; descr. winter plumage). 



L. leucosticte] australis Coues, Kej^ N.Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 350.^ — -Ridgway, 

 Man.N. Am. Birds, 1887, 395. 



Jjeucosticie tephrocotis, — var. australis Drew, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 89 (San 

 Juan Co., Colorado, breeding above timber line; notes; descr. young). 



Montifringilla australis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 275. 



Genus ACANTHIS Bechstein. 



Acanthis Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb., 1803, 125. (Type, Fringilla linaria Linnteus; 



see Stejneger, Auk, i, 1884, 145.) 

 Acanthys Des Murs, Traite d' Ool., 1862, 334, 546. 

 Linaria (not of Brisson, 1760) Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 30. (Type, L. rufescens 



Vieillot.) ■ ' 



^ Twenty specimens. ^ Five specimens. 



