338 Birds of Colorado 



species of this genus. On December 14th, 1908, Frey took a good 

 number of Rose-Finches from a large flock near Salida. Among them 

 there was a single example of this species. 



Black Rose-Finch. Leucosticte atrata. 



A.O.U. Checklist no 525 — Colorado Records — Ridgway 74, p. 241 ; 

 Drew 85, p. 16 ; Morrison 89, p. 36 ; Cooke 97, pp. 98, 164 ; 

 Warren 08, p. 23. 



Description. — Male in winter — Closely resembling L. tephrocotis, 

 but the brown of the back and under-parts replaced by black ; scapulars 

 and inter-scapulars margined with paler ; bill yellowish, tipped with 

 dusky, legs black. Length 6-10 ; wing 4-20 ; tail 2-70 ; culmen 45 ; 

 tarsus •70. 



The male in breeding dress has a black bill and the paler margins 

 to the feathers are less apparent. In the female the black of the back, 

 wings and under-parts is replaced by dark sooty -brown ; the pink 

 wash is much less conspicuous and paler in shade, being absent on the 

 wmgs and flanks ; size smaller, wing 3-95. 



Distribution. — Said to breed above timber line in the mountains of 

 Idaho and Wyoming, moving southwards in winter to the mountains 

 of Colorado and Utah. 



The species was founded on four examples taken by Aiken at Cafion 

 City in Fremont co. on the 18th and 20th April, 1874, under the circum- 

 stances already recorded. There are a nimaber of other specimens 

 in the Aiken collection, obtained in the neighbourhood of Colorado 

 Springs in January and February, 1879, and one collected by Warren 

 at Lake Moraine (10,250 feet) on the slopes of Pikes Peak in December, 

 while the same observer has recently detected a Black Rose-Finch in 

 a flock of Juncos at Sulphur Springs (7,600 feet) in Middle Park, on 

 April 6th. Frey obtained three examples in December at Salida. 



Brown-capped Rose-Finch. Leucosticte australis. 



A.O.U. Checklist no 526— Colorado Records— Allen 72a, p. 350 

 {L. griseinucha), 72, pp. 121, 162, 177 (L. tephrocotis in part) ; Aiken 72, 

 p. 199 (L. tephrocotis); Ridgway 73, p. 182 ; Trippe 74, p. 113 (in 

 part) ; Henshaw 75, p. 249 ; 05, p. 315 ; Drew 81, p. 89 ; 85, p. 16 ; 

 Anthony 88, p. 257 ; Kellogg 90, p. 88 ; Morrison 89, p. 36 ; Cooke 

 95, p. 152; 97, pp. 98, 212; Keyser 03, pp. 59, 240; Henderson 

 03, p. 236 ; 09, p. 236 ; Oilman 07, p. 156 ; Warren 08, p. 23 ; 

 RockweU 08, p. 171. 



Description. — Male in summer — Crown dusky black, becoming a 

 little paler at the edges without any distinct grey bands ; nasal tufts 

 white ; back, sides of the head and neck, throat and chest cinnamon- 

 brown, darkest on the throat ; wings and tail dusky black, edged with 



