LEUCOSTICTE LITTOEALIS— CnRYSOMITIilS TRISTIS. 



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1093, <?(r(7.; Antelope Lslaiid, Great Salt Lake, June 4, ISCO. G.i— 9J. Same le- 

 iiuuks as to 1070. 



1 114, iiest ; Antolopo I.slaiul, June 5, 1.SG9. Sage-busli. 



li;51, iad.; Antelope Ishind, June 7, 1809. 



1 140, nest; Antelope Island, Jnne 8, 1S(;9. Sagre-bush. 



11S3, nest and eggs; Salt Lake City, June IS, 1S09. Sagebusli, 1,800 feet above 

 camp (altitude above 7,0U0 feet). 



1191, nest and eggs (2); Salt Lake City, June 21,1809. Monntaiu-mabogany, 

 1,800 feet above camp. 



1193, ? af7.; Salt Lake City, June 21,1809. 0—10. IJill, puii»!i,shdnib, lower 

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



1238, nest and eggs (2); Parley's Tark, Wabsatcli Mountains, Utah, June 23, 1S09. 

 Nest in cotton- wood tree along stream. 



Leucosticte LITTORALIS. 



IIej)Jjc5ra's B.,eMcoslJcie. 



Lcucosiicte Uttoralis, Baikd, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., I, ii, 1809, 318, pi. 28 



fig. 1.— CooPEK, Orn. Cal., I, 102. 

 Lcucosiicte tcpJirocoiis var. littoraUs, CuuES, Key, 1872, 130.— IJ. B. & R., Hist. 



N. Am. Birds, I, 1874, 507, pi. xxiii, fig. C— Ridgway, Bull. Geol. & Geog. 



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

 Lcucostiefv tcphrocoiis. b. (jrincinucha, CoUES, Birds KW., 1874, 111 (i)ar(). 



A single flock of this species v\'as seen on the 5th of January in the 

 outskirts of Virginia City, Nevada. The flock comprised perhaps fifty 

 individiids, 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 teistis. 



C'oRatnagi GoldfiaicDs, £,ettMce Bir«l, cJc. 



Frinyllla tristis, Linn., Syst. Nat., I, 17G0, 320. 



Chrysomitris tristis, Bonap., Comp. & Geog. List, 1838, 33.— Baird, B. N. Am., 

 1858, 421: Catal., 1859, No. 313.— Coopee, Orn. Cal., I, 107.— CouES, Key, 

 1872, 131, pi. 3, flg.s. 7, 8, 9, 10; Cheek List, 1873, No. 149; B. N.W., 1874, 

 lie— B. B. & R., Hist. N. Am. B., II, 1874, 471, pi. xxu, ligs. 7, 8.- Uen- 

 SHAW, 1875, 243. 



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



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



