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Range. — Northern Rocky Mountains. Breeds in the Salmon 

 River Mountains, Idaho, Uintah Mountains, northern Utah, and 

 probably other northern ranges ; winters south to southern Utah, Col- 

 orado, and southeastern Wyoming. 



Leucosticte austrSlis Ridgway. Brown-capped Rosy Finch. [526.] 



Leucosticte tephrocotis var. australis Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., V, Dec, 

 1873, 197. (Mount Lincoln, at 12,000 ft., Colorado.) 



Range. — Breeds in Alpine Zone of the mountains of Colorado and 

 perhaps northern New Mexico ; winters mostly in the valleys of Colo- 

 rado, and southward into New Mexico. 



Genus AGANTHIS Borkhausen. 



Acanthis Bobkhatjsen, Deutsche Fauna, I, 1797, 248. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Fringilla linaria Linnaeus (Stejneger, 1884). 



AcSnthis hdmemanni (Holboll). 



Range. — Arctic and subarctic parts of the Northern Hemisphere, 

 migrating south in winter to the northern border of the United States 

 and to corresponding latitudes in the Old World. 



a. Acanthis homemanni homemamii (Holboll). Greenland Redpoll. [527.] 



Linota hornemanni Holboll, Naturh. Tidsskr., IV, 1843, 398. (North 

 Greenland, above Lat. 69° N. in summer.) 



Range. — Arctic America and Europe. Breeds in Greenland north to 70° 

 and in Iceland; winters in its breeding area and southward to Ungava; 

 casual at Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay, and Gait, Ontario; accidental in 

 England and France. 



6. Acanthis homemamii exilipes (Coues). Hoaiy RedpoU. [527a.] 



^giotkus exilipes CouEs, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 385. (Fort 

 Simpson, Mackenzie.) 



Range. — Arctic America and northeastern Asia. Breeds from western 

 Alaska to Ungava, and on Chukche Peninsula, northeastern Asia; winters 

 occasionally southward to British Columbia, Montana, northern Minnesota, 

 Michigan, Illinois, Ontario, Maine, and Massachusetts, and in Asia to the 

 Commander Islands and northern Japan. 



