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bill aud uo ash ou head, averages a little smaller, ami is iiiiu-h duller colored ; brown parts of 

 a grayish cast ; rosy reduced or almost extinguished, chieliy traceable on rump and wing- 

 coverts ; abdomen scarcely tinted, and quills aud tail-featliers with whitish instead of rosy edg- 

 ings. Wing 4.00-4.20, averaging little over 4.00 : tail 2.1)0-3.25, average 3.00. Colorado 

 and New Mexico, breeding up to 12,000 feet ; a curious southerly local race of the genus. 

 L. tephroeo'tis. (Ur. Tf(f)p6s, tephros, gray; ovs, itros, oiis, otos, the ear. Fig. 214.) Swain - 

 son's Rosy Fixch. Sexes similar. Adult ,$, in breeding plumage or nearly so : Bill and feet 

 black. Nasal plumules white. Frontlet black ; rest of pileum hoary-ash, not descending 

 bolow level (jf eyes and upper bordei' of 

 auriculars (for when the ash invades the 

 sides of head to any extent, the bird 

 takes the first step toward Utoralis, in 

 which the head is extensively hooded in 

 ash). General color, sides of head in- 

 cluded, chocolate or liver-brown of vary- 

 ing intensity, many feathers skirted with 

 gray or whitish, especially the inter- 

 scapulars, which also have dusky centres, 

 and inclining to blackish on chin and 

 throat. Hinder parts of the body above 

 and below, including tail-coverts, rich Fig. 214. - Rosy Finch, reduced. (Sheppard del. Nichols sc.) 

 rosy or cannine red, this color due to broad edgings of the dusky feathers of these parts. 

 Wings and tail blackish, the wing-coverts and primaries edged with rosy, showing nearly 

 continuous in the closed wing ; edgings of inner secondaries rosy-white or white. Length 

 (average) 6.75; wing 4.00-4.45, average 4.25 ; tail 2.50-3.00, average 2.75; culmen 0.40- 

 0.50, average 0.45 ; tarsus 0.75-0.85, average 0.80. ?, adult: Very similar; pattern identi- 

 cal; tone subdued; size a little less; length 6.00; wing 4.10; tail 2.65. ^^ in winter : 

 Bill yellow; pattern unchanged; coloratibn less vivid, the brown rather umber than chocolate, 

 the red rather rosy than carmine. Rocky Mt. region, from the Saskatchewan or beyond, through 

 most of the U. S. in winter ; breeding limits unknown, supposed to be Northern Rocky IMts. 

 of U. S. and beyond. This' is the central figure in the genus. It runs directly into 

 L. t. litora'lis. (Lat. Utoralis, littoral.) Baird's Rosy Finch. Like the last; the ash 

 spreading over the head, more or less, sometimes almost enveloping it like a hood, and even 

 occupying the chin in extreme cases. Size of the last. Northwest coast ; in summer unknown, 

 in winter spreading from Kadiak S. aud E. to California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado; very 

 abundant, in flocks mixed with tephrocotis proper. 



li. griseinu'cha. (Low Lat. griseus, gray, and nucha, nape. Fig. 215.) Brandt's Rosy 

 Finch. Like the littoral variety of tephrocotis, in having the ashy extending over the sides of 

 the head; this color settled in a definite hood, said to never invade 

 the chin. The resident form of the N. W. coast and islands, from 

 Kadiak W. and N. Much larger than Nos. 203-4 ; lenc:th 7.00 

 or more; wing 4.50 (4.25-4.S5) ; tail 3.50 (3.15-3.90); culmen 

 0.57; tarsus 0.95. Sexes scarcely distinguishable. Bill black or 

 yellow according to season. Young "uniform brownish -gray, 

 washed with umber ; wings and tail dusky-slate, the feathers 

 bordered with paler ; the edges of the lesser wing-coverts and 

 remiges very pale pinkish ; of the greater whig-coverts and tertials 

 pale dull ochraceous ; no black or gray about head ; bill horn-color." Nest well ma<lo of 

 grasses and mosses, lined with feathers, on the ground or among rocks ; eggs 3-6, generally 4, 

 pure white, 0.97 X 0.67- 



Fio. 215. — BraiKlt'B Rosy 

 Finch. (After Baird.) 



