BIRDS OF NOKTH AND MIDDLE AMEBIC A. 71 



LEUCOSTICTE TEPHROCOTIS LITTORALIS (Baird). 

 HEPBTTKN'S LEUCOSTICTE. 



Similar to L. t. tephrocotls, but with more or less of the sides of the 

 head gray; in typical examples the entire head, except the black 

 frontal patch and the throat, light ash gray, sometimes even the throat 

 also gray. 



Adult tnale.— Length, (skins), 153. -±2-172. 73 "(159.00); wing, 101.85- 

 109.73 (106.68); tail, 59.91-69.85(66.04); exposed culmen, 10.92-12.45 

 (11.94); depth of bill at base, 8.38-9.40 (8.89); tarsus, 19.81-20.83 

 (20.57); middle toe, 13.72-16.24 (14.73).^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 154.69-164.59 (159.00); wing, 100.08- 

 104.14 (101.85); exposed culmen, 11.43-12.45 (11.94); depth of bill at 

 base, 8.38 (one specimen); tarsus, 19.81-20.57 (20.07); middle toe, 

 13.72-14.99 (14.48).' 



Mountain districts of northwestern North America; doubtless breed- 

 ing above timber line on the coast mountains of Alaska, from the 

 Aliaska peninsula eastward and southward; " in winter south to Nevada, 

 Utah, and Colorado, and east to eastern base of Rocky Mountains 

 (casually to Minnesota), and along the Pacific coast to Kodiak, Sitka, 

 Vancouver Island, etc. 



Leucosticte tephrocotls (not of Swainson) Baikd, Stansbury'a Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 

 1852, 317, part (Salt Lake City, Utah, March); Rep. Pacific K. R. Surv., ix, 

 1858, 430, part (do.); Oat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 322, part. 



Leucosticte griseinucha (not Fringilla griseonucha Brandt) Brown, Ibis, 1868, 422 

 (Vancouver I.).— Elliot, lUustr. New and Unflg. N. Am. Birds, pt. x, 1868, 

 pi. 12. 



Montifringilla . . . ^riseinuc/iaHoMEYEK, Journ. fiirOrn., 1880, 153 (Oregon). 



\_Leuco8ticte tephrocotis] b. griseinucha Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 111, part. 



Leucosticte teplvrocostis . . . var. griseinucha Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 1 Ha, 

 part. 



Leucosticte littoralis Baied, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 318, pi. 28, fig. 1 

 (Sitka, Alaska; U. S. Nat. Mus.); in Cooper's Orn. Cal., 1870, 162 (Sitka; 

 Ft. Simpson, Brit. Columbia). — Dall and BannisTek, Trans. Chicago Ac. 

 Sci., i, 1869, 282 (Sitka). — Baikd, Bkbwbk, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, pi. 23, flg. 6.— Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 461 (Vir- 

 ginia City, Nevada, Jan. 5). — Bendiee, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1877, 117 

 (Camp Harney, e. Oregon; winter resid., possibly breeding on mountains; 

 descr. supposed egg, etc.).* — Bebwbe, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1878, 189 

 (descr. song). 



[Leucosticte tephrocotis.] Var. littoralis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 130. 



^ Seventeen specimens. 



^ Six specimens. 



'Supposed breeding localities of this form in Washington and Oregon (see synon- 

 ymy) may, in reality, pertain to X. tephrocotls tephrocotis, no specimens having been 

 obtained, apparently, to determine the question. 



■'This supposed breeding record may refer to L. tephrocotls tephrocotls. 



