70 BULLETIN 50, NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



Interior districts of North America; l)recding- on higher parts 

 (11,000-12,000 feet) of White Mountains and Sierra Nevada, south- 

 eastern California, and probably also northward; during migration 

 east to western Nebraska, eastern Colorado, Manitoba, etc. ; south to 

 Colorado, Utah, etc. ; west to Cascade and Sierra Nevada ranges; north 

 to plains of the Saskatchewan (Ma}"). 



Llnariu {Leucosticte) tephrocotis Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Ain., i, 1831, 265 (plains of 

 the Saskatchewan, May). 



Leucosticte tephrocotis Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., i, 1831, 494, pi. 50. — Baird, in 

 Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 317, part (Salt Lake City, Mar. 21); 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 430, part; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 

 322, part; in Cooper's Orn. Cal., 1870, 164, colored fig. (near Lake Tahoe, 

 California, winter). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 123 (Nebraska). — Blak- 

 iSTON, Ibis, 1863, 71 (Saskatchewan).— Salvadori, Proe. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1868, 580.— CouES, Check List, 1873, no. 144, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 203.— 

 RiDCxWAY, Bull. Essex Inst., v, 1873, 182 (Colorado); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 

 1881, no. 175. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 

 504, part, pi. 23, fig. 8.— Bendire, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1877, 117 (Camp 

 Harney, e. Oregon, Nov. 8 to Mar. 22; crit. on plumage of sexes, etc.). — 

 Merrill, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 75 (Fort Shaw, Montana, winter; 

 crit. on plumage of sexes). — Shufeldt, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 

 177 (habits in confinement). — Drew, Auk, ii, 1885, 16 (Colorado, 6,000 

 ft., in winter).— American ORNixHOLociiSTs' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 

 524.— Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 181 (Nebraska, in winter).— 

 Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 34 (Rocky Mts. distr., occ. w. of 

 Cascades in winter). — Tho.mpson, Auk, x, 1893, 50 (Manitoba, winter). — 

 Fisher, N. Am. Fauna, no. 7, pt. ii, 1893, 82 (White Mts. and southern Sierra 

 Nevada, California, breeding at 11,000-12,000 ft.).— Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1893, 47, 63 (summit of Rocky Mts., near Field, Brit. Colum])ia).— 

 Thorne, Auk, xii, 1895, 216 (Fort Keogh, Montana, Dec. 6 to last of Mar. ).— 

 Nehrlixg, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 46. — Brooks, Auk, xvii, 1900, 

 106 (Chiiliwack, Brit. Columbia). 



L. leucosticte'] tephrocotis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 351. — Ridgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 394. 



[Leucosticte] tephrocotis 'Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 536. — Coues, Key N. Am. 

 Birds, 1872, 130. 



[Leucosticte tephrocotis] a. tephrocotis Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 111, part. 



[Leucosticte tephrocotis] var. iejjhrocotis Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, i, 1874, 504. 



Leucosticte tephrocotis . . . var. tephrocotis Ridgway, Bull. L^. S. Geol. and Geog. 

 Surv. Terr., sec. ser., no. 2, May, 1875, 68, 71 (monogr. ). 



Leucosticte tephrocotis var. tephrocotis Allen, Bull. \J. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. 

 Terr., ii, 1876, 350 (Camp Harney, e. Oregon; measurements, etc.). 



Erythrospiza tephrocotis Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 34. — Audubon, 

 " Synopsis, 1839, 126; Birds Am., oct. ed., iii, 1841, 176, pi. 198. 



Fringilla tephrocotis Avdvbov, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 232, pi. 424. 



F. l_ringilla] tephrocotis Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 372. 



Montifringilla tephrocotis Bonaparte and Schlegel, Mon. Lox., 1850, 37, pi. 

 43.— HoMEYER, Journ. fiir Orn., 1880, 201.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xii, 1888, 273. 



[Linaria] tephrocotis OiRay, Hand-list, ii, 1870, IfO, no. 7657. 



