BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 71 



LEUCOSTICTE TEPHROCOTIS LITTORALIS (Baird). 

 HEPBURN'S LEtrcoSTICTE. 



Similar to Z. t. tepJtroeotis, but with more or less of the sides of the 

 head gray; in typical examples the entire head, except the black 

 frontal patch and the throat, light ash graj^, sometimes even the throat 

 also gray. 



Adult m/de. — Length (skins), 153.42-172.72 (1.59.00); wing, 101.8.5- 

 109.73 (106.08); tail, 59.91-69.85(66.01); exposed culmen, 10.92-12.15 

 (11.91); depth of bill at base, 8.38-9.10 (8.89); tarsus. 19.81-20.83 

 (20.57); middle toe, 13.72-15.21 (11.73).^ 



Adult female.— IjQngth (skins), 151.69-161.59 (159. otJ); wing. 100.08- 

 101.11 (101.85); exposed culmen, 11.13-12.15 (11.91); depth of bill at 

 base, 8.38 (one specimen); tarsus, 19.81-20.57 (20.07); middle toe, 

 13.72-11.99 (11.18). ^ 



Mountain districts of northwestern Xorth America; doubtless breed- 

 ing above timber line on the coast mountains of Alaska, from the 

 Aliaska peninsula eastward and southward; '^ in winter south to Nevada, 

 Utah, and Colorado, and east to eastern base of Rocky Mountains 

 (casually to Minnesota), and along the Pacific coast to Kodiak, Sitka, 

 Vancouver Island, etc. 



Leucosticte tephrocofis (not of Swainson) Baird, Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 

 1852, 317, part (Salt Lake City, Utah, March); Eep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 

 1858, 430, part (do.); Cat. X. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 322, part. 



Leucosticte griseinucha (not FringiUa griseonucha Brandt) Brown, Ibis, 1868, 422 

 (Vancouver I.). — Elliot, Illustr. Xew and L'nfig. X. Am. Birds, pt. x, 1868, 

 pi. 12. 



MontifrlngUla . . . ^mem»c/*« Homeyer, .Tourn. fi'irOrn., 1880, 153 (Oregon). 



[Leucosticte tephroc()ti<<'] !>. griseinucha Coveh, Birds X. W., 1874, 111, part. 



Leucosticte tephrocost is . . . var. ^m«mfc/(a Coues, Checklist, 1873, no. 144a, 

 part. 



Leucosticte littoralis Baird, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 318, y>\. 28, fig. 1 

 (Sitka, Alaska; U. S. Xat. Mus.); in Cooper's Orn. Cal., 1870, 162 (Sitka; 

 Ft. Simpson, Brit. Columbia) . — Dald and Baxxister, Trans. Chicago Ac. 

 Sci., i, 1869, 282 (Sitka) .—Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. X. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, pi. 23, fig. 6.— Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 461 (Vir- 

 ginia Cit}-, Xevada, Jan. 5). — Bexdire, Proc. Bost. Soc. X. H., 1877,117 

 (Camp Harney, e. Oregon; winter resid., possibly breeding on mountain;?; 

 descr. supposed egg, etc.).* — Brewer, Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1878, 189 

 (descr. song). 



[^Leucosticte tephrocoti.t.l Var. litforalis Coves, Key X. Am. Birds, 1872, 130. 



^ Seventeen specimens. 



- Six specimens. 



■''Supposed breeding localities of this form in Washington and Oregon (see synon- 

 ymy) may, in reality, pertain to L. tephrocotis tephrocoti^s, no specimens having been 

 obtained, apparently, to determine the question. 



*This supposed breeding record may refer to L. tephrocotis tejjhrocotis. 



