LEUCOSTICTE TEPHROCOTIS, GRAY-CROWNED FINCH. Ill 



encased in spruce-twigs, lined with hair and bark shreds, four inches in 

 diameter, with a cavity an inch and a half deep; the egg pale blue, 

 spattered at large end with tine dots of black and ashy-lilac ; the size 

 0.80 by 0.56. It was taken in JSJew Brunswick. 



It is remarkable that so many of these birds should have been taken 

 in Great Britain where, however, L. americana has not been found, Mr. 

 Harting, as above quoted, enumerates four instances in which they 

 were observed, ou one of which occasions "a large flock'' made its a[)- 

 pearance near Banff, in 1859. He also says: "Some years since Dr. 

 Dewar, of Glasgow, when six hundred miles off Newfoundland, ob- 

 served a number of these birds crossing the Atlantic before a stiff 

 westerly breeze. Many alighted on the rigging, and ten or twelve were 

 secured." 



LEUCOSTICTE TEPHROCOTIS, Sw. 



Gray-erowned Finch. 



a. tephrocofis. 



Lmaria(Lencosticte) icphrocotis, Sw., F. B. A. ii, 1831, 265, pi. 50 (Saskatchewan, May, 1827). 



Leucostiote tephrocotis, Sw., Classif. 13. ii, 1837. — Bp., C. A. i, 1850, 53G. — Bd., Stausburv's 

 Rep. 1852, 317 (Salt Lake City, Utab).— Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 430.— Stev., U.'S. 

 Geol. Surv. Ter. 1872, 464 (Wyomiu^O-— Coop., B. Cal. i, 1870, 174 (Calilbruia).— 

 Allex, Bull. M. C. Z. iii, 1872, 162 (Mt. Lincoln, Park county, Col., .July, breed- 

 ing above timber-line).— Coupes, Key, 1872, 130.— B. B. &.R., N. A. B. i, 1874, 

 504, pi. 23, f. 8, 9. 



Erythroqnza tcphwcoUs, Bp., C. & G. List, 1838, 34.— AuD., Syu. 1839.— AuD., B. Am. iii, 

 1841, 176, pi. 198 (Swainsou's type). 



FringiUa tephrocofis, NtiiT., Man. Orn. ii,' 1834, App. 593.— AuD., O. B. v, 1839, 232, pi. 424. 



Lcucosticte campestris, Bd., in Cooper's B. Cal. i, 1870, 163 (Colorado, WtrnUjk ; slightly 

 apj)roacliing the next var.). 



Lciicosticfe Uphrocotifi var. campestris, CouES, Key, 1872, 130. — B. B. &- R., N. A. B. i, 1874, 

 507, pi. 23, f. 7. 



Leucosticte tephrocofis var. australis, Allen, Mss. (midsummer iilumage). * 



b. griseinuclia. 



Passer arctoits var. y, Pallas, Zoog. R.-A. ii, 1811, 23. 



Friuij'dla (Linaria) griseinuclia, Bkaxdt, Bull. Imp. Acad. St. Peters. 1844, .36. 



Monti friiKjiUa {Lcucoaticte) fjriseimicha, Bp. Sl Schl., Mon. Lox. 1850, 35, pi. 41. 



JilonlifringiUa {jriseiiiiiclia, FiNscii, Abb. Nat. iii, 1872, 57 (Alaska). 



Leucosticte griseinuclia, Bp., Consp. Av. i, 1850, .537.— Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 430.— ELLIOT, B. 



N. A. pi. 11.— Dall & Baxx., Tt. Chic. Acad, i, 18(59, 282. pi. 28, f. 2.— Coor,, 



B. Cal. i, 1871, 161 (not Calilbrnia, but Ooiialasbka and St. George's, Alaska). — 



Dall, Pr. Cal. Acad. Feb. 187:> (Oonalashka Island). 

 Leucosticte tephrocofis var. griseiiiucha. and var. littoralis. Coufs, Key, 1872, 130, 352, fig. 



77.— B. B. & R., N. A. B. i, 1874, 508, 507. pi. 23, f. 5, 6. 

 Leucosticte (iriscigevgs, GouLD, P. Z. S. 1843, 104. — (Joi'LD, V'oy. Sulplinr, i, 1844, 42, pi. 22. 

 Leucosticte littorafin', Bd., Tr. Chic. Aca«l. i, 1869, 318, i)l. 28, "f. 1.— Dali. «5L- B.vnx., ibid. 



282.— Coop., B. Cal. i, 1870, 162 (Sitka, British Columbia; Fort Simpson). 

 Moutifririgilla littoralis, Fixscn, Abh. Nat. iii, 1872, 58 (Alaska). 



Hah. — Northwestern North America and Saskatchewan to the Pacific. South to Col- 

 orado, Utah, and Northern California. Var. griseinuclia from the Pacific coast from 

 British Columbia northward, and Aleutian Islands. In the interior to Ftut Simp.son. 



*Thi8 cannot well be a variety— if it is anything more than midsummer jjlumuge, it 

 is a good species. Mr. Allen's originals, labelled as cited, were submitttil to I'lnf. 

 Baird and myself. Prof. Baird's opinion is recoidcd in his work, /. c. ; my own is hero 

 given. In the Ajipendix to the third volume of his work, now in press, however, a var. 

 australis, iu which I do not concur, will be recognized. 



