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and blackish shafts ; tail and upper tail-coverts hoary white, with blackish 

 shafts, the former dark grey at the tip ; an indistinct light band from 

 the eye covering the nape and hind-neck ; under parts chocolate-brown, 

 with faint reddish margins ; under tail-coverts hoary white ; bill and legs 

 blackish brown ; iris dark brown. Culmen 0*47, wing 4'15, tail 2'85, 

 tarsus 0'8 inch. Sexes alike. 



Hob. Eastern Siberia; accidental on Aleutian Islands (?). 



Inhabits the mountains where it is resident and not 

 numerous. In summer it is found above the forest zone, 

 usually on the south side of the mountains. Its nest and eggs 

 are unknown, but the latter are probably white like those of 

 its congeners. 



446. GIGLIOLI'S GROUND-LINNET. 

 LEUCOSTICTE GIGLIOLII. 



Leucosticte gigliolii, Salvadore, P.Z.S. 1868, p. 579, pi. xliv ; (Sharpe), 

 Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 273 ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 651. 



ad. (E. Siberia). Differs from L. arctoa in having the lower back 

 and scapulars washed with dull crimson, the wings without the silvery 

 white margins ; tail blackish brown with narrow paler margins ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts sooty blackish ; an indistinct greyish brown collar ; 

 crown, ear-coverts, and cheeks dull silvery grey ; under parts dark greyish 

 brown, the breast and flanks washed with dull crimson ; middle of abdo- 

 men greyer ; beak and legs blackish ; iris brown. Culmen 0*47, wing4'35, 

 tail 3'0, tarsus 0*8 inch. Sexes alike. In winter the plumage is browner, 

 with less red, the under parts have ashy grey margins, and the bill is 

 yellowish with dark tip. 



Hob. Eastern Siberia, in the Baikal district, and Dauria. 



In habits it resembles L. arctoa, and frequents bare rocky 

 localities on the sunny side of the mountains, where it finds 

 abundance of seeds on which it feeds. In severe weather it 

 collects in flocks and is then seen near the villages, where it 

 feeds on grain and the seed of the wild cabbage (Brassica 

 olemcea). Its nest and eggs are unknown. 



447. ALEUTIAN GROUND-LINNET. 

 LEUCOSTICTE GRISEONUCHA. 



Leucosticte griseonucha (Brandt), Bull. Ac. St. Petersb. 1841, p. 36 ; 

 Baird, Trans. Chic. Acad. i. p. 317, pi. 28, fig. 2 ; Nelson, Nat. Hist. 

 Alaska, p. 176 ; Turner, Nat. Hist. Alaska, p. 171, pi. viii. ; (Sharpe), 

 Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 275 ; Ridgway, p. 393 ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. 

 p. 655. 



