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biU and no ash on head, averages a little smaUer, and is much duller colored ; hrowu parts of 

 a grayish cast ; rosy reduced or almost extinguished, chielly traceable on rump and wing- 

 coverts ; abdomen scarcely tinted, and quills and taU-feathers with whitish instead of rosy edg- 

 ings. Wing 4.00-4.20, averaging little over 4.00 ; tail 2.90-3.25, average 3.00. Colorado 

 and New Mexico, breeding up to 12,000 feet ; a curious southerly local race of the genus. 

 L. tephroco'tis. (fix. T(4>p6i, tephros, i^vAy ; om, mrds, oi«, otos, the ear. Fig. 214.) SwAlN- 

 SOn's Rosy Finch. Sexes similar. Adult $,m breeding pliunage or nearly scj : Bill and feet 

 black. Nasal plumules white. Frontlet black; rest of pileuui h(jary-ash, not descending 

 below level of eyes and upper border of ^ 



auriculars (for when the ash invades the 

 sides of bead to any extent, the bird 

 takes the first step toward litoralis, in 

 which tlie liead is extensively hooded in 

 ash). General color, sides of bead in- 

 cluded, chocolate or liver-brown of vary- 

 ing intensity, many feathers skirted witli 

 gray or whitish, especially the inter- 

 scapulars, which also have dusky centres, ^- 

 and inclining to blackish on chin and __ ^/''^ '^^-v^-^^ ^ 

 throat. Hinder parts of the body above " ^ 

 and below, including tail-coverts, rich Fig- 214. - Rosy Finch, reduced. (Sheppard del. Nichols bc.) 



rosy or carmine red, this color due to broad edgings of the dusky feathers of these ])arts. 

 Wings and tail blackish, the wing-coverts and primaries edged with rosy, showing nearly 

 continuous in the closed wing ; edgings of inner secondaries rosy-white or white. Length 

 (average) 6.7.5; wing 4.00-4.45, average 4.25 ; tail 2.50-3.00, average 2.75 ; eulmen 0.40- 

 0.50, average 0.45 ; tarsus 0.75-0.85, average 0.80. 9 i adult : Very similar; pattern identi- 

 cal ; tone subdued; size a little less; length 0.60; wing 4.10; tail 2.05. (J? in winter : 

 BiU yellow; pattern unchanged; coloration less vivid, the brown rather umber than chocolate, 

 the red rather rosy than carmine. Rocky Mt. region, from the Saskatchewan or beycjnd, through 

 most of the U. S. in winter ; breeding limits unknown, supposed to be Northern Rocky !Mts. 

 of U. S. and beyond. This is the central figure in the genus. It runs directly into 

 L. t. litora'lis. (Lat. litoralis, littoral.) Baird's Rosy Finch. Like the last; the ash 

 spreading over the head, more or less, sometimes almost enveloping it like a hood, and even 

 occupying the chin in extreme cases. Size of the last. Northwest coast; in summer unknown, 

 in winter spreading from Kadiak S. and E. to California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado ; very 

 abundant, in flocks mixed with tephrocotis proper. 



L. griseinu'cha. (Low Lat. grisens, gray, and nucha, nape. Fig. 215.) Brandt's Rosy 

 Finch. Like the littoral variety of tephrocotis, in having the ashy extending over the sides of 

 the head ; this color settled in a definite hood, said to never invade 

 the chin. The resident form of the N. W. coast and islands, from 

 Kadiak W. and N. Much larger than Nos. 203-4 ; length 7.00 

 or more; wing 4.50 (4.2.5-4.85); tail 3.50 (3.15-3.90); eulmen 

 0.57; tarsus 0.95. Sexes scarcely distinguishable. Bill black or 

 yellow according to season. Young "uniform brownish-gray, 

 washed with umber ; wings and tail dusky-slate, the feathers 

 bordered with paler ; the edges of the lesser \ving-coverts and 

 remiges very pale pinkish ; of the greater wing-coverts and tertials 

 pale dull ochraceous ; no black or gray about head; bill horn-color." Nest well made of 

 grasses and mosses, lined with feathers, on the ground or among rocks ; eggs 3-6, generally 4, 

 pure white, 0.97 X 0.67. 



Fig. 215, — Brandt's Eosy 

 Finch. (After Balrd.) 



