72 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUlft. 



LeucoMicte tephrocotis, var. UttoraUs Baird, Breker, and Ridgway, Hist. X. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 507.— Allex, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., ii, 1876, 

 34:9 (Camp Harney, e. Oregon, Jan., Feb.; measurements, etc.). — Merrill, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Clul>, v, 1880, 75 (crit. on sexual differences in plumage). 



Leucostlcte tephrocotis . . . var. Z(7^ora^(s Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vii, Jan., 

 1875, 36 (Nevada); Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Terr., sec. ser., no. 2, May, 

 1875, 74 (monogr. ). 



Leucosticte tephrocotis, ft. littoralis Ridgway, Field and Forest, ii. May, 1877, 198 

 (Colorado). 



Leucosticte tephrocotis littoralis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 

 177, 216; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 175 «.— Drew, Auk, ii, 1885, 16 

 (Colorado, 5,000-8,000 ft. in winter). — Americax Orxituologists' Uxiox, 

 Check List, 1886, no. 524«.— Nelsox, Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 

 177 (Sitka, Kodiak, Brit. Columbia, etc.).— Caxtwell, Auk, vi, 1889, 341 

 (Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1 spec. Jan. 3, 1889). — Thorxe, Auk, xii, 1895, 

 216 ( Fort Iveogh, Montana, winter).— (?) Dawsox, Auk, xiv, 1897, 92 (Okano- 

 gan Co., AVashington, 8,000 ft., breeding'), 177 (do.). — Merrill, Auk, xv, 

 1898, 15 (Ft. Sherman, Idaho, Nov. 3).— Brooks, Auk, xvii, 1900, 106 

 (Brit. Columbia, breeding above timber line on Cascades). 



L.\_eucosticte'] t.lephrocotisi litoralis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 351. 



L. l_eucosticte'] tephrocotis littoralis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 394. 



Leucosticte tephrocotis litoralis Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 204. 



ILinaria^ littoralis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 110, no. 7663. 



Montefringilla littoralis Fixsch, Abh. Xat. Yer. Bremen, iii, 1872, 58 (Sitka; Ft. 

 Simpson). 



Montifringilla littoralis Sharpe, Cat. Birds. Brit. ]Mus., xii, 1888, 277. 



Tephrocotis {_lapsns'] littoralis Faxxix, Check List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 35 (Ash- 

 croft, Clinton, Burrard Inlet, Port Simpson, etc.). 



Leucosticte camj)estris Baird, in Cooper's Orn. Cal., 1870, 163, colored fig. (Den- 

 ver, Colorado; IT. S. Nat. INIus. ). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, i, 1874, pi. 23, fig. 7. 



\_Leucosticte tephrocotis.'] Var. campestris Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 130. 



Leucosticte tephrocotis, var. campestris Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1, 1874, 507. 



Leucosticte tephrocotis campestris Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 327. 



LEUCOSTICTE TEPHROCOTIS GRISEONUCHA (Brandt). 

 ALEUTIAN LEUCOSTICTE. 



Similar to Z. f. Itttoralis but much larger (decidedh^ the largest form 

 of the genus) and darker; wing averaging not less than Hi, 30: tar- 

 sus, 24.13. 



Adult 'male in suiii'mer. — Forehead and part of crown l)laek; throat 

 dusky grajash or blackish, becoming lighter or more decidedly gray 

 on chin; rest of head uniform light ash graj^; general color of body 

 deep chocolate brown, the scapulars and interscapulars with dusk}' 

 shaft-streaks and paler brown margins, the feathers of rump, abdo- 

 men, flanks, and the upper and under tail-coverts broadly and abruptly 



^ Apparently no sjiecimens were obtained and the form may have been L. tephro- 

 cotis tephrocotis. 



