76 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Tmniature )naJe. — Similar to adult male, but the pink marking's paler, 

 replaced on middle and greater wing-coverts and part of secondaries 

 by broad tips and edgings of Iniffy white. 



Adult ft male. — Much duller in color than the male, the under parts 

 dusky gra}' ish brown instead of brownish black, the back more brown- 

 ish, and the pink markings decidedly paler, less extensive, and largely 

 replaced b}- whitish, especially on wings. 



Immature female. — Still duller and browner than adult female, with 

 pink markings more extensivel}' replaced by whitish and pale buffy; 

 scapulars and interscapulars couspicuoush^ margined with brownish 

 buffy, and feathers of breast, etc. (sometimes of whole anterior under 

 parts), margined with pale grayish buffy. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 149.86-159.26 (153.92); wing, 107.19- 

 108.71 (107.95); tail, 66.55-69.85 (68.33); exposed culmen, 10.41-12.19 

 (11.13); depth of bill at base (one specimen), 8.38; tarsus, 19.81-20.32 

 (20.07); middle toe, 14.22-11.99 (14.48).^ 



Adult female.— Ij^ngth (skins), 142.24-156.97 (150.88); wing, 98.81- 

 106.43 (102.36); tail, 60.45-65.53 (63.50); exposed culmen, 11.43-11.94 

 (11.68); tarsus, 19.81-20.32 (20.07); middle toe, 13.72-14.73 (14.22).- 



Breeding above timber line on high mountains of Idaho (Salmon 

 River range), Wyoming (Uintah Mountains), etc.; south, in winter, to 

 Colorado (El Paso County, etc.), and southern Utah (St. George). 



Leucosticte iephrocotis (not of Swainson) Stevenson, Prelim. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. 

 Terr, for 1871 (1872), 464 (Uintah Mountains, Wyoming). — Holden, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. X. H., XV, 1872, 199, part (black specimen; Sherman, Wyoming). — 

 Baied, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 505, part (sup- 

 posed young from Uintah Mts.). 



Leucosticte atrata Ridgway, American Sportsman, iv, July 18, 1874, 241 (El Paso 

 Co., Colorado; coll. C. E. Aiken) ;^ Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geod. Surv. Terr., 

 2d ser., no. 2, May 14, 1875, 68, 69 (monogr.); Field and Forest, iii, 1877, 

 198 (Colorado); Nom. N.Am. Birds, 1881, no. 176.— Coues, Check List, 2d 

 ed., 1882, no. 201.— Drew, Auk, ii, 1885, 16 (Colorado, 5,000 feet in winter) .— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 525. — Merriam, 

 North Am. Fauna, no. 5, 1891, 102 (Salmon River Mts., s. Idaho, breeding 

 above timber line). — Fisher, North Am. Fauna, no. 7, pt. ii, 1893, 83 (St. 

 George, s. Utah, Jan. 21). — Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 45, 

 pi. 22.— Cooke, Bull. Col. Agric. Coll., no. 44, 1898, 164 (Colorado Springs, 

 Colorado, up to Apr. 2). 



L. leucosticte] atrata Couas, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 350. — Ridgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 39"4. 



Montifringilla atrata Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 274. 



^ Three specimens. 



^ Six specimens. 



^ Type now in collection of U. S. National Museum. 



