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130 FRINGILLIDiE, FINCHES, ETC. GEN. 60, 61. 



tainous parts of New Mexico, and southward. Bd., 427 (in text), 924. My New 

 Mexican specimens show a bill almost matching that of C pytiopsittacus of Europe. 



60. Genus LEUCOSTICTE Swainson. 



*j,.* Sides of the under mandible with a small sharp oblique ridge ; nasal tufts 

 conspicuous. 

 ^ " Gray-crowned Finch. Cliocolate or liver-brown, the feathers posteriorly 

 skirted with rosy or lavender, wings and tail dusky, rosy-edged, chin dusky 

 with little or no ashy, crown alone clear ash, forehead alone black, bill and 

 nasal feathers whitish, feet black; 9 not particularly ditferent; about 7; 

 wing 4^ ; tail 2f ; a little forked. In midsummer, the black frontlet extends 

 over the crown, the rosy heightens to crimson, and the bill blackens ; the 

 whole plumage is likewise darlcer. Rocky Mountain region, south to Colo- 

 rado. AuD., iii, 176, pi. 198; Bd., 430; Coop., 164. . tepiirocotis. 



Var. CAMPESTRis Bd., in Coop., 1G3. Colorado. In the specimen described, the 

 ash of the head extends a little below the eyes but not on the auriculars, and forms 

 a narrow border on the chin ; thus approximating to the 

 next. 



Var. GRiSEixuciiA. Gray-eared Finch. The ash of the 



ead extending over the whole cheeks and ears and 



part of the chin ; the black frontlet extending over most 



of the crown. Larger than average tepiirocotis. Aleutian 



Islands. Bd., 430 (footnote) ; Trans. Chicago Acad. 



FIG. 77. G. ,- aredFmch(5). ^ggg^ pj_ gS, f. 2 ; CoOP., 161. 



Var. i.iTTOKALis Bd., Trans. Chicago Acad. 18G9, p. 317, pi. 28, f. 1 ; Coop., 163. 

 In the specimens described, from Sitka and British Columbia, the whole head 

 including the chin, except the black frontlet, is ashy. The gradations noted in the 

 foregoing paragraphs sliow that there is but a single species, although griseinucha 

 and littoralis look quite different from tepiirocotis and campestris. 



/Siberian Finch. Dusky purplish ; neck above pale yellowisli ; forehead 

 and nasal feathers blackish ; outer webs of quills and M'ing coverts, tail 

 coverts, rumjD and crissum silvery gray, rosy-margined. Kurile and Aleu- 

 tian Islands ; Siberia. Bd., 430 (footnote); Coop., 165. . . akctoa. 



61. Genus AEGIOTHUS Cabanis. 



* ^* Small species (S^Sf ; wing 2J-3 ; tail 2|-2J^), with the bill extremely acute, 

 overlaid at the base with nasal plumules, the wings long, pointed, the tail short, 

 forked, the feet moderate. Conspicuously streaked, the crown with a crimson patch 

 in both sexes, the face and chin duskj-, wings and tail dusky with whitish edgings ; 

 the males with the whole breast rosy and tlie rump tinged with the same. Boreal 

 bjrds, occurring in the United States in winter, in large flocks. 



Bed-poll Linnet. (Plate hi, ligs. 1, la, 2, 2a, 4, 4a., 5, 5a.) Upper parts 

 streaked with dusky and flaxen in about equal amounts, rump white or rosy, 

 always streaked with dusky ; below, streaked on the sides, the belly dull 

 white ; bill mostly yellow ; feet blackish ; middle toe and claw as long 

 as the tarsus. WiLS., iv, pi. 42 ; Nutt., i, 512 ; AuD., iii, 122 ; Bd., 428 ; 

 CouES, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1861, 373 linarius. 



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