246 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



GENUS LEUCOSTICTE SWAINSON. 



Leucosticte SWAINSON, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 (1832), 265. Type, 

 by monotypy, Linaria (Leucosticte) tephrocotis SWAINSON. 



Leucosticte griseonucha (BRANDT). Aleutian Rosy Finch. [523.] 



Fringilla (Linaria) griseonucha BRANDT, Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.- 

 Petersb., X, 1842, 252. (" Insulae Aleuticse," Alaska.) 



RANGE. 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 tephrocotis SWAINSON. 



RANGE. Western North America south, in winter, to mountains 

 of California and Colorado. 



a. Leucosticte tephrocotis tephrocotis SWAINSON. Gray-crowned Rosy 



Finch. [524.] 



Linaria (Leucosticte) tephrocotis SWAINSON, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 

 (1832), 265, pi. 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 littoralis BAIRD. Hepburn's Rosy Finch. [524a.] 



Leucosticte littoralis BAIRD, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., I, i, 1869, 318, pi. 

 28, fig. 1. (Port Simpson, B. C.) 



RANGE. 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 atrdta RIDGWAY. Black Rosy Finch. [525.] 



Leucosticte atrata RIDGWAY, Amer. Sportsman, IV, July 18, 1874, 241. 

 (Canon City, Colorado.) 



