70 BULLETIK 50, NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



Interiol' districts of North America; breeding on higher parts 

 (11,000-12,000 feet) of White Mountains and Sierra Nevada, south- 

 eastern California, and probably also north wax'd; during migration 

 east to western Nebraska, eastern Colorado, Manitoba, etc. ; south to 

 Colorado, Utah, etc. ; west to Cascade and Sierra Nevada ranges; north 

 to plains of the Saskatchewan (May). 



Linaria (Leucosticte) tephrocotis Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., i, 1831, 265 (plains of 

 the Saskatchewan, May). 



Leucosticte tephrocotis Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., i, 1831, 494, pi. 50. — Baird, in 

 Stansbury's Eep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 317, part (Salt Lake City, Mar. 21); 

 Eep. Pacific E. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 430, part; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 

 322, part; in Cooper's Orn. Cal., 1870, 164, colored fig. (near Lake Tahoe, 

 California, winter). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 123 (Nebraska). — Blak- 

 isTON, Ibis, 1863, 71 (Saskatchewan). — Salvador:, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1868, 580.— CouES, Check List, 1873, no. 144, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 203.— 

 Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, 1873, 182 (Colorado); Nom. N. Am. Birds,- 

 1881, no. 175. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds,i, 1874, 

 504, part, pi. 23, fig. 8.— Bendike, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1877, 117 (Camp 

 Harney, e. Oregon, Nov. 8 to Mar. 22; crit. on plumage of sexes, etc.). — 

 Merrill, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 75 (Fort Shaw, Montana, winter; 

 crit. on plumage of sexes). — Shufeldt, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 

 177 (habits in confinement) . — Drew, Auk, ii, 1885, 16 (Colorado, 6,000 

 ft., in winter). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 

 524.— Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 181 (Nebraska, in winter).— 

 Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 34 (Rocky Mts. distr., occ. w. of 

 Cascades in winter). — Thompson, Auk, x, 1893, 50 (Manitoba, winter). — 

 Fisher, N. Am. Fauna, no. 7, pt. ii, 1893, 82 (White Mts. and southern Sierra 

 Nevada, California, breeding at 11,000-12,000 ft.). — Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1893, 47, 63 (summit of Rocky Mts., near Field, Brit. Columbia).— 

 Thornb, Auk, xii, 1895, 216 (Fort Keogh, Montana, Dec. 6 to last of Mar. ).— 

 Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 46. — Brooks, Auk, xvii, 1900, 

 106 (Chidiwack, Brit. Columbia). 



L. leucosticte'] tephrocotis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 351. — Ridgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 394. 



[Leucostictel iep/iTOCoiis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 536. — Coues, Key N. Am. 

 Birds, 1872, 130. 



\_Leucoslicte tephrocoiisl a. tephrocotis Coues, Birds N. W. , 1874, 111, part. 



[Leucosticte tephrocotis'] var. tephrocotis Baikd, Beewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, i, 1874, 504. 



Leucosticte tephrocotis . . . var. tephrocotis Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. 

 Surv. Terr., sec. ser., no. 2, May, 1875, 68, 71 (monogr.). 



Leucosticte tephrocotis var. tephrocotis Allen, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. 

 Terr., ii, 1876, 350 (Camp Harney, e. Oregon; measurements, etc.). 



Erythrospiza tephrocotis Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 34. — Audubon, 

 Synopsis, 1839, 126; Birds Am., oct. ed., iii, 1841, 176, pi. 198. 



IHngilla tephrocotis A-VTiVBOTS, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 232, pi. 424. 



F. [ringilla] tephrocotis Gray', Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 372. 



Montifringilla tephrocotis Bonaparte and Schlegel, Men. Lox., 1850, 37, pi. 

 43.— HoMEYER, Journ. fiirOrn., 1880, 201. — Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xii, 1888, 273. 



[Linaria] tephrocotis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 110, no. 7657. 



