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and one oljtaineJ a year or two previously at Fort Simpson, by Mr. Hep- 

 Lurn, an eminent Entilisli naturalist. lont>' time resident at Sau Francisco 

 and Victoria. (Baird.) 



Leucosticte campestris, Baird. 



THE GKAY-CHEEKED FINCH. 



LcHcoaticte caiiii)e$tr/s, Baird, MSS. 



Sp. Chak. Body light cliocolate-brown ; the feathers edged with paler, those of the 

 back widi rather darker, centres. Feathers of anal region, flanks behind, erissum, riuup, 

 and upper tad coverts, wing coverts, and primary quills, edged with rose-red ; secondary 

 quills and tad feathers with pale fulvous; little or no trace of rose on under wings. Fore- 



head and patch on crown blackish ; the hind head to nape, cheeks, immediately under 

 the eye (but not including the auriculars, except jiei-liaps the most anterior), and base of 

 lower mandible all round, ashy-gray. Throat dusk}-. Bill }ellowish, with dusky tip. 

 Legs dusky. Specimen figured above from near Denver City, Colorado, Janiun-y, 1862. 

 Dr. C. We'rnigk. (Baird.) 



Total lengdi, 7.00 ; wing, 4.00 ; tail, 3.00 ; exposed portion of first primary, 3.10. Bid : 

 length from tbrehead, O.GO ; from nostril, 0.40. Legs: tarsus, 0.75; middle toe and claw, 

 0.80; claw alone, 0.24 ; hind toe and claw, 0.80 ; claw alone, 0.37. 



Ilah. Colorado Territory. (Dr. Wernigk.) 



This species bears a close resemlilance to L. tcphrocotis, and may indeed 

 be a variety of it, but as it differs in the characters tliat appear generally to 

 be those most constant in Lcacosticic, and as in over fifty slcins of tlie 

 tcphrocotis I have seen nothing lil-ce it, I am inclined to consider them dis- 

 tinct. The size and general appearance are much the same, tlie difference 

 being that in tcpJnvcotis the clieel<s are chocolate below tlie level of the 

 eye, the chin without any gray, while in camjKstris the sides of the head 

 below the eye, but not including the ears, together with a narrow border of 

 tlie cliin, are of this color. 



Tliis species may be distiuguislied from littoralis by the less extent of 



