246 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
GENUS LEUCOSTICTE Swanson. 
Leucosticte Swarnson, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 (1832), 265. Type, 
by monotypy, Linaria (Leucosticte) tephrocotis SWAINSON. 
Leucosticte griseonicha (BRANDT). Aleutian Rosy Finch. [523.] 
Fringilla (Linaria) griseonucha Branpt, Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. Sei. St.- 
Pétersb., X, 1842, 252. (‘‘Insule Aleutice,’’ Alaska.) 
RancGE.— Islands of Bering Sea (St. Matthew, Commander, Pribilof, 
and Aleutian groups), western part of Alaska Peninsula, and Shu- 
magin Islands; winters east to Kadiak Island. 
Leucosticte tephrocétis SWAINSON. 
RanGeE.— Western North America south, in winter, to mountains 
of California and Colorado. 
a. Leucosticte tephrocotis tephrocotis Swainson. Gray-crowned Rosy 
Finch. [524.] 
Linaria (Leucosticie) tephrocotts Swatnson, Fauna Bor.-Am., IJ, 1831 
(1832), 265, pl. 50. (Saskatchewan River, probably near Carlton 
House, Saskatchewan. ) 
Range.— Mountains of western North America. Breeds in Alpine Zone of 
east central Alaska, west central Yukon, western Alberta, and higher parts of 
White Mountains and southern Sierra of California; in winter and in migra- 
tion west to the Cascade Range, east to the Saskatchewan plains and Mani- 
toba, north to Great Slave Lake, and south to Utah, Colorado and western 
Nebraska. 
b. Leucosticte tephrocotis littordlis Bairp. Hepburn’s Rosy Finch. [524a.] 
Leucosticte littoralis Barrp, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., I, i, 1869, 318, pl. 
28, fig. 1. (Port Simpson, B.C.) 
Ranece.— Mountains of western North America. Occurs in summer and 
probably breeds above timberline on mountains from Alaska Peninsula east 
and south to Washington; winters along the Pacific coast from Kadiak Island 
to Vancouver Island, and southeastward in mountains to Oregon, Nevada, 
Utah, and Colorado; casual in Minnesota. 
Leucosticte atraéta Ripgway. Black Rosy Finch. [525.] 
Leucosticte atrata Ripaway, Amer. Sportsman, IV, July 18, 1874, 241. 
(Cafion City, Colorado.) 
