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black ou forehead. Length about 6.50-7.25, wing 4.00-4.40 

 (4.15), tail 2.S0-3.35 (3.09), culmon .40-.48 (.45), tarsus .70-.80 

 (.77). Ilab. High mountains of Colorado iu summer (10,000 

 feet and upwards) ; lower districts, and south to northern 

 Mexico, in winter. 



520. L. australis (Allkn). Brown-capped Leucosticte. 

 b". Nasal tufts black. 



Adult: Head blackish; hind-neck light rusty; general color of hodj 

 dark chocolate-brown ; otherwise, much like L. tephrocotis, and 

 allies, the size about the same. Mab. Northeastern Asia, from 

 Kamtschatka to northern Japan. 



L. brunneinucha (Braxdt). Japanese Leucosticte.' 

 Sides of lower niandililo without oblique ridge; tail-feathers, primaries, second- 

 aries, primary coverts, and greater coverts light hoary gray or silvery 

 ■white, with darker shaft-streaks; tail-coverts without rosy tips. (Sub- 

 genus Hypolia RiDGWAY.') 



Adult : General color jilain sepia-brown, paler, and sometimes more tawny, 

 on hind-neck, the tail, etc., silvery whitish, as described above ; length 

 about 6.00-6.50, wing 4.60, tail 3.15. Hab. Northeastern Asia (Siberia, 

 etc.) ; accidental on Aleutian Islands (?) 



L. arctoa (Brandt). Silvery-winged Leucosticte.' 



Genus ACANTHIS Bechstein. (Page 382, pi. CVII., fig. 1.) 



Species. 



CoM.MON Characters. — Adult males: Above streaked with dusky upon a 

 brownish, grayish, or whitish ground, the rump sometimes immaculate white or 

 ])inkish ; top of head bright red (except in A. brewsterii) ; wings and tail dusky, the 

 feathers edged with paler, the middle and greater wing-coverts tipped with whitish 

 or ])ale brownish ; su])erciliary region and lower parts chiefly whitish, but anterior 

 lower parts (except in A. brewsterii) more or less tinged with red, and sides usually 

 more or less streaked with duskj- ; a more or le.<s distinct dusky spot on chin and 

 upper part of throat (except in A. brewsterii). Adult females : Similar to the males, 

 but without an}- red on breast, etc., the crown, however, red as in male. Young: 

 No red whatever on crown or elsewhere ; whole head streaked with dusky and 

 grayish or brownish white, the latter color prevailing on under portions; other- 

 wise much as in adult female, but plumage of much softer, more " woolly" tex- 

 ture and markings less sharply defined. (Note. — Both sexes have in summer a 



• rr!n-j!lln {Linnrin) brunneinucha Brandt, Bull. Ac. St. Pctorsb. Nov. ISll, 35. Leucosticte brunneinucha 

 Cab.vx., Mu9. Hcin. i. 1,S51, 154. 



' Hi/potia RiDGW., Bull. U. S. Gcol. A Gcog. Surv. Terr. No. 2, soo. set. M»y 11, 1875, 67. Type, Paiaer 

 arctoin Pai.l. 



' PaMter arctout, var. a, Pall., Zoog. Rosso-As. ii. 1S26, 21. Leucotticte arctoa Bo.vAP., Consp. i. 1850, 

 5.37. 



