32. M0NT1FRIXGIU.A. 275 



Adult male. General colour black, darker than the frontal patch, 

 deepest anteriorly ; grey of the head confined to the lateral and 

 posterior portions of the pileuin as in L. tephroeotis. [Sexes very 

 dissimilar in shades of coloration. Wing 4 - 02 inches, tail 2"97, 

 culmen 043, tarsus 077. (Bide/way, I. c.) 



Adult female. General colour dusky slate, lighter than the frontal 

 patch, and with a faint brownish cast on the dorsal region. Wing 

 3-9 inches, tail 2*9, culmen 0-44, tarsus 0-79. (Ridgway, I. c.) 



Hah. In winter, mountains of Colorado and Utah ; summer range 

 not known. 



15. Montifringilla australis. 



Leucosticte griseinucha, Allen, Amer. Sat. vi. p. 350 (1872, nee 



Brandt). 

 Leucosticte tephroeotis (nee Sic. $ Bieh.), Allen, Ilidl. Mus. Comp. 



Zool. Cambr. iii. p. 177 (1872); Coues, B. S.- Wed, p. Ill, footnote 



(1874) : Beard, Brewer, \ Bidijw. Hist. S. Amer. B. i. p 504, pi. 23. 



fig. 9(1874). 

 Leucosticte tephroeotis, var. australis, Allen, MSS, : Rirfgw. Bull. 



Essex Inst. v. p. 182 (1873) ; Baird, Brewer, # Bidgw. Hist. N. 



Amer. B. i. p. 509 (1874). 

 Leucosticte australis, Bidgw. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mat. i. p. 79 (1875) ; 



He?ish. Sep. Zool. Expl. IQOth Me rid. p. 249, pis. 5, 6 (1875); 



Ridqw. Proc. U. S. Xett. Mus. iii. p. 177 (18*<0) ; Coues, Check-list 



N. Amer. B. p. 48 (1882) ; id. Kei/ S. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 350 



(1884); Drew, Auk, ii. p. 16 (1885) : A. O. U. Cheek-list N. Amer. 



B. p. 259 (1886). 



Adult male. Similar to L. tephroeotis, and with the same brown 

 ear-coverts, but easily distinguished by the absence of pearly grey 

 on the hinder crown and neck, these parts resembling the brown of 

 the back. Total length 6-3 inches, culmen CM 5, wing 4-2, tail 2-7~>, 

 tarsus 0-8. 



Hab. Mountains of Colorado, breeding above the timber-line, 

 descending into the valleys in winter. New Mexico (A. O. U. 

 Check-list, 1. <\). 



a. (S ad. sk. Mount Lincoln, Colorado, July 25 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(J. A. Allen; Sm. no. 15726). 



b. c? ad.sk. Colorado, spring (J. Stevenson ; Sm. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



no. 72957). 



c. <$ ad. sk. South Park, Colorado, July 25 H. K. Coale, Esq. 



(S. Rothrock ; Sm. no. 795/8). [P.]. 



16. Montifringilla griseinucha. 



Passer arctous, yar., rail. Zoogr. Bosso-Asiat . ii. p. 23 (1811). 

 Fringilla (Linaria) griseonucha, Brandt, Bull. Sei. Acad. St. Petersb. 



x. p. 252 (1842). 

 Leucosticte griseogenys, Gould, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 104 ; id. Vuy 

 ^ ' Sulphur; p. 42, pi. 23 (1844). 



Fringilla griseogenys, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 372 (1849). 

 Fringilla frriseomicha, Gray, t. e. p. 372 (1849). 



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