LEUCOSTICTE LITTORALIS— CnRYSOiMITRIS TRISTIS. 4(5^ 



1003, (J ad.; Antelope Islaud, Great Salt Lake, June 4, ISGD. 04 — 9J. Same re- 

 marks as to 107G. 



1114, iiest; Aiitcloix' Island, June 5, 1809. Sagebnsli. 



1131, <J((rf.; Antelope Island, .lune 7, 18G9. 



1 140, nest; Antelope Island, June 8, 1SG9. Sage-husli. 



1183, uest and eggs; Salt Lake City, June 18, 18G9. Sage-bush, 1,800 feet above 

 camp (altitude above 7,0'JO feet). 



1191, nest and eggs (2); Salt Lake City, June 21, 18G9. Mountain luabogauy, 

 1,800 feet above camp. 



1193, ? ad.; Salt Lake City, June 111, 1SG9. G— 10. liill, purplisb-drab, lower 

 mandible, more lilaceous basally beneath; iris, brown; tarsi and toes, deep brown. 



1238, nest and eggs (2); Parley's Park, Wahsatch Mountains, Utah, Juue 23, 1809. 

 Nest in cotton-wood tree along stream. 



LeUCOSTICTE LITTORALIS. 

 Ilrpburii's Leucoslicle. 



Lcucosticte littoralis, Baird, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., I, ii, 1869, 318, pi. 28, 



fig. 1.— CooPEK, Orn. Cal., I, 162. 

 Lcucosticte tcphrocot'tH var. littoralis, CoUES, Key, 1872, 130. — B. B. & R., TTist. 



N. Am. Birds, I, 1874, 507, pi. xxiii, tig. G.— RiDcavAY, Bull. Geol. & Ceog. 



Expl. Ter., No. 2, sec. ser., 1875, 74. 

 Lcucosticte teplirocotis. b. grisei nucha., CouES, Birds N.W., 1874, 111 (part). 



A single flock of tins species was seen 011 the 5th of January in the 

 outskii-ts of Virginia City, Nevada. The flock comprised perhaps fifty 

 individuals, all busily engaged in gleaning from the surface of the snow, 

 flitting restlessly over one another, in the manner of Lapland Longspurs, 

 at the same time uttering a twittering note. 



ChRYSOMITRIS TRISTIS. 



Coitinioii <jiol<I(ioicDi, Lettiirc Bird, cic. 



Fringilla tristis, Linn., Syst. Nat., I, 17GG, 320. 



Chnjsomitris tristis, BoNAP., Comp. & Geog. List, 1838, 33. — Baird, B. N. Am., 

 1858, 421; Catal., 1859, No. 31,).— CooPEK, Orn. Cal., I, 1G7.— CoiiES, Key, 

 1872, 131, pi. 3, figs. 7, 8, 9, 10; Check List, 1873, No. 149; B. N.W., 1S7J, 

 116— B. B. & R., Eist. N. Am. B., II, 1874, 471, pi. xxii, figs. 7, 8.— Uen- 

 SUAW, 1875, 243. 



Few birds were so abundant at Sacramento as this widely-distributed 



species ; but eastward of the SieiTa Nevada it was found to be extremely 



