104 SINGING BIRDS — OSCINES. 



ash ou the checks. In li/lomlis it covers the Avlidh; of the ears, and ex- 

 tends back fartlier (ni the head all round. L. ijrisiiiiuclia is marked like 

 littundU, and is luueli larger tliau either. 



The specimen described was ja-esented to the Smithsonian Institution by 

 Dr. AVernigk, and at the time ^\as sujiposed to Ije L. Icphrocotis. (Baird.) 



Leucosticte tephrocotis, Swainson. 



THE GEAY-CKOWNED FINCH. 



Linaria (Leucosticte) trplimruli.i, Sw.vixsoN, F. Bor. Am. II. 1831,' 255; ]il. 1. — Leticoslicle 

 tephrocotis, Swainson, Birds, II. 18.37. — Baird, Stunsbury's Salt Lake, 1852,317. — 

 Id. p. R. Kcp. IX. Birds, 430. — Eri/throspiza tcjikrocotis, Bonaparte, List, 1838. — 

 AuDunox, Birds Amer. III. 1841,176; ])1. 198. — Nuttall, Man. 2d cd. I. 032.— 

 FiinijiUa tephrocotis, Audubon, Orii. Biog. V. 1839, 232 ; jil. 424. 



Sp. Chak. Head al-K)\o and nape liuundc-d below by a line iVoni the commissure a 

 little below the eyes, light ashy ; dnsky in the loral region. Crown with a distinet patch 

 of sooty-black, reaching nearly to the base of the bill. Lesser wing coverts and axillaries, 

 onter edges of primaries and tail ii.-athcrs, with ends of the feathers of the posterior half 

 of body all round, pale rose-red. Rest ot" body dark luuber-brown, tinged with dusky on 



the eliin and throat. Wings and tail feathers blackish. The gi'cater coverts are tipped, 

 and the secondaries edged, with white. Length, 7.10; wing, 4.30 ; tail, 2.90. "Winter 

 plumage. Salt Lake City. (Baird.) 



Hub. Northern Rocky Mountains. "S'icinity of Salt Lake City in winter, and North- 

 eastern California. 



I have seen a specimen brought from somewhere east of Lake Tahoe in 

 Washoe, and presented by ilr. F. Grulier to the German Academy of Xatu- 

 ral Sciences in San Francisco. They were said to be plentiful there in the 

 very cold -winter of 1861-62, and doubtless visited the similar country east 

 of the northern Sierra Ne\'ada -within this State. The first specimen de- 

 scribed Mas ol)tained on tlie banks of the Saskatchewan Eiver, about lat. 

 51°, in jVIay, but very little is yet known of their habits. Captain Staus- 

 bury found them common near Salt Lake City, in IMarch, 1850. 



