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**Gray of the head extended over the auriculars and cheeks : 



Throat gray, or black more or less mixed with gray. — 

 General color cbestnut-brown. Wing, 3.80-4,30 

 (4.03) ; tail, 2.70-3.30 (2.95) ; culmen, .40-.50 (.46) ; 

 tarsus, .70-.8o(. 79); middle toe, .50-.60 (.59).* Eah. 

 In summer, unknown, but probably the northwestern 

 mountain-region in British Columbia and neighbor- 

 ing districts ; in winter, uorthwest coast from Kadiak 

 southward, and the mountains of the Middle Prov- 

 ince of the United States, south to about latitude 3S° 

 (Boulder, Colorado, Mrs. Maxwell ; Central City, 

 Colorado, C. E. Aiken ; Gilmer, Wyoming, H. K. 

 DuRKEE 5 Virginia City, Nevada, January, R. RiDCf- 

 WAY) „ var. Uttoralis, Baird. 



Throat black, not mixed with gray. — General color 

 chestnut-sepia. Wing, 4.20-4.85 (4.49) ; tail, 3.15- 

 3.90 (3.49); culmen, .o0-.62 (.57); tarsus, .85-1.00 

 (.95) ; middle toe, .65-75 (.71). Hah. — In summer, 

 Aleutian Islands (Saint Paul's and Saint George's, 

 breeding, H. W.Elliott) ; in winter, coast of Alaska, 

 from Unalashkato Kadiak, W. H. I) all, Dr. Minor, 

 and F. Bischoff) (var.?) griseinucha^ Brandt. 



1). Head without any gray : 



3. L. AXTSTRALis (Allen). — Sexes very dissimilar. Male: gen- 

 eral color raw umber, the throat inclining to maroon-purple 

 and sometimes tinged with carmine ; pileum grayish dusky, 

 the borders of the feathers more grayish, becoming black on 

 the forehead. Female : very much paler and duller, the rosy 

 markings almost obsolete. Wing, 4.00-4.40 (4.15) ; tail, 

 2.80-3.35 (3.09) ;t culmen, .40-.48 (.45) ; tarsus, .70-.80 (.77) ; 

 middle toe, ..55-. 60 (.57).| Hab. — In spring and summer, the 

 Rocky Mountains of Colorado, breeding above the timber-line, 

 at an altitude of 12,000 feet, Allen ; CaQonCity and vicinity, 

 February to May 15, Aiken; New Mexico, Lieut. Wheeler. 



B. Xasal tufts Made : 



4. L. brunneinucha, Brandt. — Whole head blackish ; nape 

 rufous; otherwise colored \ili.e tejjhrocotis. Wing 4.00; tail, 

 2.80 (.^fZe Bonaparte & Schlegel, "Monograph des Lox- 

 iens," p. 36). Hab. — Eastern Kamtschatka and Kuril Islands. 



LEUCOSTICTE ATRATA, Kidgway. 



BLACK G-RAY^-CROWNED LEUCOSTICTE; AIKEN'S LEUCOSTICTE. 



"1 Passer arctous, ,3, 1, Pallas, Zoog. Rosso-Asiat., II, IS3], 22 ("Ex insulis Curilis"). 

 Leucosticte tephrocotis (youiifr), Baird, Brewer, & Ridgw., Hist. N. Am. B., 1, 1874,505. 

 Leiicosticte atrata, Ridgway, Am. Sportsman, July ]8, 1874, p. 241. 



Hal).— C'dnon City, Colorado (April; Aiken); Uintah Mountains, 

 Utah (September; Hayden). 



* Forty-eight specimens. 



tOne hundred and six specimens. 



t Fifty specimens. 



