LEUCOSTIC.TE TEPHEOCOTIS, GEAY-CEOWNED FINCH. Ill 



encased ia spruce-twigs, lined with hair and bark shreds, four inches in 

 diameter, with a cavily an incli and a half deep; the egg pale blue, 

 spattered at large end with hue dots of black and ashy-lilac ; the size 

 0.80 by 0.56. It was taken in New Brunswick. . 



It is remarkable that so many of these birds should have been taken 

 in Great Britain where, however, L. americana has not been found. Mr. 

 Harting, as above quoted, enumerates four instances in which they 

 ■were observed, on one of which occasions "a large flock'; made its ai)- 

 pearance near Banff, in 1859. He aJso says: "Some years since Dr. 

 Dewar, of Glasgow, when six hundred miles off Newfoundland, ob- 

 served a number of these birds crossing the Atlantic before a stiff 

 westerly breeze. Many alighted on the rigging, aud ten or twelve were 

 secured." 



LEUOOSTIGTE TEPHEOCOTIS, Sw. 

 Gray-crowned Finch. 



a. tephrocotis. 



Zinaria (Leucosticte) teplirocotis, Sw., F. B, A. ii, 1831, 265, pi. 50 (SasTjatcbewaii, May, 1827). 



Leucosticte tephrocotis, Sw., Classif. B. ii, 1837. — Bp., C. A. i, 1850, 536. — Bd., Stansburv's 

 Eep. 1852, 317 (Salt Lake City, Utah).— Be, B. N. A. 1858, 430.— Stev., U.'S. 

 Geol. Surv. Ter. 1872, 464 (Wyoiiiius)!— Coop., B. Cal. i, 1870, 174 (California).- 

 Allen, Bull. M. C. Z. iii, 1872, 162 (Mt. Lincolu, Park county. Col., July, breed- 

 ing above titeber-line).- Coues, Key, 1872, 130.— B. B. &"E., N. A. B. i, 1874, 

 504, pi. 23, f. 8, 9. 



Brythroaxriza tephrocotis, Bp., C. & G. List, 1838, 34. — AuD., Syn. 1839. — AxiD., B. Am. iii, 

 1841, 176, pi. 198 (SwaiDSou's type). 



Fringilla tephrocotis, Nutt., Man. Orn. ii, 1834, App. 593.— AuD., O. B. v, 1839, 232, pi. 424. 



Leucosticte campestris, Bd., in Cooper's B. Cal. i, 1870, 163 (Colorado, Werniyk; slightly 

 approaching the next var.). 



Leucosticte tephrocotis var. campestris, Coues, Key, 1872, 130. — B. B. & E., N. A. B. i, 1874, 

 507, pi. 23, f. 7. 



Leucosticte tephrocotis var. aiisiralis, Allen, Mss. (niidsnmnier plumage). " 



b. griseinucha. 



Passer arctous var. y, Pallas, Zoog. R.-A. ii, 1811, 23. 



Fringilla (Linaria) griseinucha, Bkaxdt, Bull. Imp. Acad. St. Peters. 1844, 36. 



Montifringilla {Leucosticte) griseinucha, Bp. & SciiL., Mon. Lox. 18.00, 35, pi. 41. 



Montifringilla griseinucha, Flnsch, Ahh. Nat. iii, 1872, 57 (Alaska). 



Leucosticte griseinucha, Bp., Consp. Av. i, 1850, 537. — Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 430.^Elhot, B. 



N. A. pi. 11.— Dall & Bann., Tr. Chic. Acad, i, 1869, 282, pi. 28, f. 2.— Coop., 



B. Cal. i, 1871, 161 (not California, but Oonalashka and St. George's, Alaska).— 



Dall, Pr. Cal. Acad. Feb. 1873 (Oonalashka Island). 

 Leucosticte tephrocotis var. griseimicha. and var. littoralis. Coups, Key, 1872, 130, 3.'')2,iifr. 



77.— B. B. & E., N. A. B. i, 1874, 508, 507, pi. 2;3, f. 5, 6. 

 Leucosticte griseigetiys, Gould, P. Z. S. 1843, 104. — (ioULD, Voy. Sulphur, i, 1844, 42, pi. 22. 

 Leucosticte littoralis, Bd., Tr. Chic. Acad, i, 1869, 318, pi. 28, f. 1.— Dall & Bann., ihid. 



282.— Coop., B. Cal. i, 1870, 162 (Sitka, British Columbia; Fort Simpson). 

 Montifringilla littoralis, Finsch, Abh. Nat. iii, 1872, 58 (Alaska). 



Hab. — Northwestern North America and Saskatchewan to the Pacific. South to Col- 

 orado, Utah, and Northern California. Var. griseinucha from the Pacific coast iioni 

 British Columbia northward, and Aleutian Islands. In the interior to Fort Simpson. 



* This cannot well be a variety — if it is anything more than midsummer plumage, it 

 is a good species. Mr. Allen's originals, labelled as cited, were submitted to Prof. 

 Baird and myself. Prof. Baird's opinion is recorded in his work, I. c. ; my own is hero 

 given. In the Appendix to the third volume of his work, now in press, however, a var. 

 australis, in which I do not concur, will be recognized. 



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