Brown-capped Rose-Finch 339 
peach-blossom pink, the wing-coverts and upper tail-coverts tipped, 
and the whole of the flanks and abdomen washed with the same, the 
colour richest on the abdomen; iris brown; bill and legs black. 
Length 6-30; wing 4-20; tail 2-60; culmen -40; tarsus -70. 
The male in winter has the bill horny-yellow, tipped with black; the 
general colour is greyer owing chiefly to most of the feathers being 
tipped and edged with greyish-brown, while the pink is very much 
lighter in shade. The female is greyer than the male, the brown being 
of a duskier shade; the pink wash is much less distinct, and in some 
specimens almost absent. Young birds are buffy-brown, including the 
crown, and show no pink. 
Distribution.—Breeding above timber line—11,000 feet, to summits 
of the higher mountain ranges of Colorado; in winter descending to 
below timber line, but not leaving the mountains except when driven 
down by storms. 
The following are summer records: Longs Peak, July (Kellogg), 
Bald Mountain, 10,000 to 11,000 feet (Gale), Grays Peak (Keyser), 
mountains near Breckenridge (Carter apud Cooke), Mount Lincoln, 
July (Allen), Mount Harvard (Henshaw), Pikes Peak (Keyser), moun- 
tains near Crested Butte (Warren), Sangre de Cristo range above 
timber line, June, 1874, and Summit Peak, Conejos co., September 
(Aiken), San Juan co. (Drew), La Plata Mountains, 13,000 feet, June, 
July (Gilman). 
Winter records are: Gold Hill, Boulder co., January (Anthony) ; 
near Colorado Springs, January, March (Aiken), Lake Moraine, El Paso 
co. (10,230 feet), December (Warren), Cafion City, April (Aiken) ; 
Salida, December 14th (Frey); Fort Lewis, La Plata co., 7,500 feet, 
January (Gilman), near De Beque, Mesa co., March (Rockwell). 
So far as I am aware this species has never yet been recorded from 
outside the State of Colorado. Its reported occurrence in New Mexico 
is due to an error (Henshaw 05). 
Habits.—This is the only species of the genus which 
is known to breed in Colorado, and even now eggs have 
never yet been taken. Mr. Richmond informs me that 
there is a nest in the United States National Museum 
supposed to have been that of a Brown-capped Rose- 
Finch, from which the young had already flown, taken 
by F. M. Drew at Round Mt., San Juan co., on the 27th 
of August, 1883, at an elevation of 13,000 feet. 
In fact, the only species of the genus of which the 
breeding habits are well known is L. griseinucha, from 
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