BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMEKICA. 67 



Pinicola enudeator var. canadensis Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 1873, 181 

 (Colorado). 



Pinicola enudeator, /3. canadensis Ridgway, Field and Forest, iii. May, 1877, 197 

 (Colorado). 



P. [inicola'\ enudeator canadensis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 388, part. 



{Pinicolal enudeator (not Loxia enudeator Linnteus) Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 

 1872, 127, part. 



Pinicola enudeator Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 137, part; 2d ed. , 1882, no. 190, part; 

 Birds N. \V., 1874, 104, part ( Uintah Mts., Wyoming; mts. of Colorado, breed- 

 ing). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 453, part. — 

 Nelson, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1875, 344 (30 m. s. of Fort Bridger, Wyom- 

 ing).— Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 166, part.— Drew, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 89 (San Juan Co., Colorado, breeding); Auk, ii, 1885, 15 

 (Colorado, 10,000-11,500 ft. ).— American Ornithologists' Union, Check 

 List, 1886, no. 515, part.— Merhiam, North Am. Fauna, no. 5, 1891, 101 (Sal- 

 mon R. Mts., etc., s. Idaho, breeding). — Richmond and Knowlton, Auk, xi, 

 1894,305 (Mystic Lake and Trail Creek, Montana, breeding). — Cooke, Birds 

 Colorado, 1897, 96 (breeding near timber line). 



Pinicola enudeator montana Ridgway, Auk, xv, Oct., 1898, 319 (Bear Creek, Gal- 

 latin Co., Montana; U. S. Nat. Mus. ). — American Ornithologists' Union 

 Committee, Auk, xvi, 1899, 113 (Check List. no. 515 a). 



Genus LEUCOSTICTE Swainson. 



Leucostide Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, App. 1, 493. (Type, Linaria {Leu- 



costide) tephrocotis Swainson.) 

 Hypolia Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., sec. ser., i, no. 2, May 



11, 1875, 67. (Type, Passer arctous Pallas.) 



Long-winged, short-legged, essentially terrestrial finches, with nor- 

 mally shaped bill (i. e. , with maxilla not distinctly shallower than man- 

 dible and with gonys decidedly more than half the lateral length of the 

 mandible), and dark-colored plumage. 



Bill much shorter than head, short-conical; distance from nostril to 

 tip of maxilla less than half the length of the tarsus, equal to or a little 

 more than depth of bill at base; culmen very slightly convex or nearly 

 straight to near the tip, where more convex; gonys straight, barely 

 shorter than distance from nostril to tip of maxilla; lateral basal por- 

 tion of mandible sometimes with an oblique ridge. Nasal plumules 

 distinct, quite covering nostrils. Wing long (more than five times as 

 long as tarsus), pointed (three outermost primaries — usually the ninth — 

 longest) ; primaries exceeding secondaries by nearly or quite twice the 

 length of the tarsus. Tail about two-thirds as long as wing, or a little 

 more, emarginated, more than half hidden by the upper coverts. Tar- 

 sus equal to or slightly longer than middle toe with claw; lateral claws 

 reaching to about base of middle claw; hind claw equal to or longer 

 than its digit, strongly curved. 



Coloration. — Adults with more or less of pink or reddish, at least 

 on flanks, or else with remiges and rectrices silverj^ gray or whitish. 

 Young not streaked, but nearly unicolored, and wholly dark colored 

 (sooty, grayish, or brownish) beneath. 



