Appendix. 



1 08, American Crossbill; Loxia curvirostra 

 minor (Brehm). 



Cannot be mistaken on account of the overlapping 

 tips of the beak. General color of male red- 

 dish, streaked with dusky below, and wings 

 dusky. Female yellowish oHve and dusky. 

 Breeds in the high northern Sierras and to the 

 northward. Winters in the mountains of Cali- 

 fornia. 



109. Gray-crowned Leucosticte; Rosy Finch; 

 Leucosticte tephrocotts Swains. 



Length about six inches. Wings long. Ground 

 dwellers of the high mountains, often frequenting 

 patches of snow. Forehead black; top of ead 

 light gray; fore parts of body light chocolate 

 brown with dusky or grayish edgings; hind parts 

 of body pale rose color or pinkish. A northern 

 species breeding in the high Sierras; in winter 

 south in the mountains and foothills. 



I 10. Redpoll; Acanthis linaria (Linn.). 



A small streaked bird (five and a half inches long); 

 dusky, white and brownish in color, with the 

 crown crimson and the throat blackish; the 

 breast and rump are rose red in the full-plumaged 

 male. Northern California in the mountains 

 during the winter months. 



III. Willow Goldfinch; Western American 

 Goldfinch ; Astragalinus tristis saltcamanus 

 (Grinnell). 



The goldfinches are small birds, usually in flocks 

 except when breeding. The colors of the group 



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