246 CHECK-LIST 01' NORTH AMEEICAN BIRDS. 



Genus LETTCOSTICTE Swainson. 



Leiicosticte Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 (1832), 265. Type, 

 by monotypy, Linaria {Leucostide) tephrocotis Swainson. 



Leucosticte griseonucha (Brandt). Aleutian Rosy Finch. [523.] 



Fringilla {Linaria) griseonucha Brandt, Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.- 

 P6tersb., X, 1842, 252. ("Insula Aleuticffi," Alaska.) 



Range. — Islands of Bering Sea (St. Matthew, Commander, Pribilof, 

 and Aleutian groups), western part of Alaska Peninsula, and Shu- 

 magin Islands; winters east to Kadiak Island. 



Leucosticte tephrocdtis Swainson. 



Range. — Western North America south, in winter, to mountains 

 of California and Colorado. 



a. Leucosticte tephrocotis tephrocotis Swainson. Gray-crowned Rosy 

 Finch. [524.] 



Linaria (Leucosticte) tephrocotis Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 

 (1832), 265, pi. 50. (Saskatchewan River, probably near Carlton 

 House, Saskatchewan.) 



Range. — Mountains of western North America. Breeds in Alpine Zone of 

 east central Alaska, west central Yukon, western Alberta, and higher parts of 

 White Mountains and southern Sierra of California; in winter and in migra- 

 tion west to the Cascade Range, east to the Saskatchewan plains and Mani- 

 toba, north to Great Slave Lake, and south to Utah, Colorado and western 

 Nebraska. 



6. Leucosticte tephrocotis littordlis Baird. Hepburn's Rosy Finch. [524a.] 



Leucosticte Uttoralis Baird, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., I, i, 1869, 318, pi. 

 28, fig. 1. (Port Simpson, B. C.) 



Range. — Mountains of western North America. Occurs in summer and 

 probably breeds above timberline on mountains from Alaska Peninsula east 

 and south to Washington; winters along the Pacific coast from Kadiak Island 

 to Vancouver Island, and southeastward in mountains to Oregon, Nevada, 

 Utah, and Colorado; casual in Minnesota. 



Leucosticte atrata Ridgway. Black Rosy Finch. [525.] 



Leucosticte atrata Ridgway, Amer. Sportsman, IV, July 18, 1874, 241. 

 (Cafion City, Colorado.) 



