71 



insulis Curilis: vertice nigricante, cervice cano-albida, dorso fusco gryso- 

 quenebuloso; suhtiis nigra, pectoris litiiris albis, ventris et uropygii 

 ciunabariuus, crisso cinnabarino, lituris fuscis. Alarum remiges, tec- 

 trices et vestrices ora ciuuabarea margiuatie ; remiges iutimiTe margine 

 albido." Tliis description corresponds well with the plumage of tlie 

 adult male in winter-dress. Should it prove to be the same as L. atrata, 

 the rauge of this species will be greatly extended. 



List of specimens examined. 



C. E. Aiken. tU. S. National Museum. 



LECJCOSTICTE TEPHEOCOTIS, Swains., var. TEPHROCOTIS, 



SWAINSON. 



CHESTNUT-COLORED GRAY-CROWNED LEUCOSTICTE ; SWAINSON'S LEU- 



COSTICTE. 



Linaria (Leucosticte) tephrocotis, SwAiNS., Faun. Bor.-Am., II, Birds, 1831, 265, pi. 50. 



Leucosticte tephrocotis, SwAlNS., Birds, II, 1837,281, — BONAP., Consp., 1850, 

 536.— Baikd, Stansbury's Salt Lake, 1852, 317 ; Birds N. Am., 1858, 430.— Cooper, 

 Cm. Cal., 1,1870, 164,— Baird, Brewer, & Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, I, 

 1874, 504, pi. xxiii, fig. 8.— Gray, Hand-List, II, 110.— CouES, Key to N.Am. 

 Birds, 1872, J30 ; B, N, W., 1875, 111 (excl, syn,). 



Erythrospiza tephrocotis, BoNAP,, Comp, List, 1833, 34. — AUD,, Synop., 1839; 

 Birds Am., Ill, 1841, 176, pi, cxcviii. 



Fringilla tephrocotis, AuD., Orn, Biog., V, 1839, 232, pi, ccccxxiv. 

 Montifringilla tephrocotis, BoNAF. & SOHLEG., Mon. Loxiens, 1850, 37, pi. 43. 



Hah. — Saskatchewan (May, Eichardson) ; Eocky Mountain region 

 of United States in winter (varions localities in El Paso County, 

 Colorado, in February, March, and April; Aiken and Mrs. Maxwell ; — 

 Salt Lake City, Utah, March; Capt. Stansbury ; — Fort Laramie and 

 Deer Creek, Wyoming, November 21, March 7 ; Dr. Hayden.) 



Sp. ch. — Gray of the head confined to the lateral and posterior i)or- 

 tions of the pileum (as in L. atrata) ; sexes exactly alike ; general color 

 chocolate-brown. Wing, 3.80-4.40 (4.11) ; tail, 2.75-3.30 (3.00) ;* culmen, 

 .40-.50 (.46) ; tarsus, .75-.86 (.79) ; middle toe, .50-.65 (.57).t 



Male : General color deep chocolate-brown, with a rufous cast, deep- 

 est on the throat, and paler on the dorsal region, where the feathers have 

 darker shaft-streaks and appreciably lighter edges. Eed of the abdomen 

 confined to the posterior portion near the anal region and the hinder 



* Measurements of 155 specimens, t Measurements of 316 specimens. 



