BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 67 



Pinicola enucleator var. canadensis Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 1873, 181 

 (Colorado). 



Pinicola enucleator, /3. canadensis Ridgway, Field and Forest, iii, May, 1877, 197 

 (Colorado). 



P. {_inicola^ enucleator canadensis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 388, part. 



[Ptmco?«] enucleator (not Loxia enucleator Linnaeus) Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 

 1872, 127, part. 



Pinicola enucleator Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 137, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 190, part; 

 Birds N. W., 1874, 104, part (Uintah Mts., Wyoming; mts. of Colorado, breed- 

 ing). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 453, part. — 

 Nelson, Proc. Bost. Soc. X. H., 1875, 344 (30 m. s. of Fort Bridger, Wyom- 

 ing).— Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 166, part.— Drew, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 89 (San Juan Co., Colorado, breeding); Auk, ii, 1885, 15 

 (Colorado, 10,000-11,500 ft.). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check 

 List, 1886, no. 515, part.— Merriam, North Am. Fauna, no. 5, 1891, 101 (Sal- 

 mon R. Mts., etc., s. Idaho, breeding). — Richmond and Knowlton, Auk, xi, 

 1894, 305 (Mystic Lake and Trail Creek, Montana, breeding). — Cooke, Birds 

 Colorado, 1897, 96 (breeding near timber line). 



Pinicola enucleator montana'R\T>Gvc\\, Auk, xv, Oct., 1898, 319 (Bear Creek, Gal- 

 latin Co., Montana; U. S. Nat. Mus. ). — American Ornithologists' Union 

 Committee, Auk, xvi, 1899, 113 (Check List. no. 515 a). 



GenLis LEUCOSTICTE Swainson. 



Leucostictf Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, App. 1, 493. (Type, Linaria, {Leu- 



costicte) <e;j/(TOco<(s Swainson.) 

 Hypolia Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., sec. ser., i, no. 2, May 



11, 1875, 67. (Type, Passer arctous Pallas.) 



Long-winged, short-legged, essentially terrestrial tinches, with nor- 

 mally shaped bill (i, e., with maxilla not distinctly shallower than man- 

 dible and with gonj's decidedly more than half the lateral length of the 

 mandible), and dark-colored plumage. 



Bill much shorter than head, short-conical; distance from nostril to 

 tip of maxilla less than half the length of the tarsus, equal to or a little 

 more than depth of bill at base; culmen very slightly convex or nearly; 

 straight to near the tip, where more convex; gonys straight, barely 

 shorter than distance from nostril to tip of maxilla; lateral basal por- 

 tion of mandible sometimes with an oblique ridge. Nasal plumules 

 distinct, quite covering nostrils. Wing long (more than five times as 

 long as tarsus), pointed (three outermost primaries — usually the ninth — 

 longest); primaries exceeding secondaries by nearly or quite twice the 

 length of the tarsus. Tail about two-thirds as long as wing, or a little 

 more, emarginated, more than half hidden by the upper coverts. Tar- 

 sus equal to or slightly longer than middle toe with claw; lateral claws 

 reaching to about base of middle claw; hind claw equal to or longer 

 than its digit, stronglj" curved. 



Coloration. — Adults with more or less of pink or reddish, at least 

 on flanks, or else with remiges and rectrices silvery gray or whitish. 

 Young not streaked, but nearly unicolored, and wholl}" dark colored 

 (soot}", gra3'ish, or brownish) beneath. 



