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broadly edged with brighter buffy; wings otherwise, and tail, much 

 as in adult female. 



Adult male.— hBngth. (skins), 145.03-164.85 (164.18); wing, 101.60- 

 111.76 (107.95); tail, 60.71-72.64(66.55); exposed culmen; 10.16-12.70 

 (11.68); depth of bill at base, 8.38-8.89 (8.64); tarsus, 18.29-20.57 

 (19.81); middle toe, 13.97-15.24 (14.48).^ 



i^emaZ^.— Length (skins), 143.00-156.21 (149.10); wing, 99.06^108.20 

 (103.63); tail, 60.96-68.53 (64.52); exposed culmen, 11.43-11.94 (11.68); 

 depth of bill at base (one specimen), 8.13; tarsus, 18.80-19.81 (19.30); 

 middle toe, 13.72-14.99 (14.22).' 



Breeding above timber line on high mountains of Colorado (Mount 

 Lincoln, Mount Harvard, Mount Evans, Red Mountains, etc.); de- 

 scending to lower valleys and plains and south to New Mexico (Mount 

 Blanco, etc.) in winter. 



Leucosticte griseinucha (not Fringilla griseonucha Brandt) Allen, Am. Nat., vi, 

 June, 1872, 350 (Mount Lincoln, Colorado, above timber line). 



Leucosticte tephrocotis (notof Swainson) Allen, Am. Nat., vi, 1872, 162, 284 (Mount 

 Lincoln, Colorado, breeding); Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, no. 6, 1872, 121 (in 

 text), 162, 177, part (mountains of Colorado above timber line). — Baikd, 

 Bkbwer, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. B., i, 1874, 504, 505, footnote, pi. 23, fig. 

 9 (supposed breeding dress). 



^Leucosticte tephrocotis} a. tephrocotis Coues, Birds N. "W., 1874, 111 (part; see espe- 

 cially footnote). 



Leucosticte tephrocotis, var. australis Allen, Bidgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 

 1873, 189 (Mount Lincoln, Colorado; coll. Mus. Comp. Zool.) ; Dec, 1873, 197 

 (redescribed). — Baird, Bkewee, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. B., iii, 1874, 

 App., p. 509 (descriptions). 



Leucosticte australis Eidgway*, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Survey Terr., 2d ser., no. 

 2, May 11, 1875, 79 (monographic); Field and Forest, iii, 1877, 198 (Colo- 

 rado); Nom. N. Am. B., 1881, no. 177. — Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's 

 Surv., 1873 (1874), 79 (South Park, Mount Harvard, Mount Evans, Eed Mts., 

 etc., Colorado, July; habits); Zool. Exp. W; 100th Merid., 1875, 249, pis. 5, 6 

 (South Park, Colorado; Mount Blanco, New Mexico, Sept. ). — Coues, Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 202.— Dkew, Auk, ii, 1885, 16 (Colorado, breedmg from 

 12,000-13,500 ft.; in winter, 6,000-10,000 ft.).— American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 526.— Anthony, Auk, iv, 1887, 257 (Boulder Co., 

 Colorado, Jan.; descr. winter plumage). 



L. leucosticte'] australis Coues, Key N.Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 350.^Eidgway, 

 Man.N. Am. Birds, 1887, 395. 



Jjeucosticte tephrocotis, — var. australis Drew, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 89 (San 

 Juan Oo., Colorado, breeding above timber line; notes; descr. young). 



Montifringilla australis Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 275. 



Genus ACANTHIS Beehstein. 



Acanthis Beohstein, Orn. Taschenb., 1803, 125. (Type, Fringilla linaria Linnseus; 



see Stejneger, Auk, i, 1884, 145. ) 

 Acanthys Des Muns, Traits d' Ool., 1862, 334, 546. 

 Linaria (not of Brisson, 1760) Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 30. (Type, L. rufescens 



Vieillot.) 



' Twenty specimens. ^ Five specimens. 



