Perching Birds Marked With Red 



499. Bioolored Blackbird (Agdaius guhdrnaior 

 xahfornicits). Ad. ^. Similar to No. 498, but median 

 wing-coverts darker and broadly tipped with black, 

 ■concealing as a rule, their brownish bases. Ad. ?. 

 Very different from 9 of No. 498; above and below 

 blackish slightly edged with rusty. 'Notes,. Similar in 

 ■character to those of No. 498, but with easily recogniz- 

 able differences. (See p;^ge 17S.) 



Range. — Pii<;ffl<; tlOasl^ breeds from northern Lower CiiLlfurtila 

 northward, wsslcf Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges, to Washing- 

 Ion; migratory at north part of raiigs. 



500. Tricoloped Blackbird {AgsUms tricolor). 

 Ad. (^. Similar to No, 498, but glossier, lesser wing- 

 coverts darker, median wing-coverts white; in winter 

 black more or less edged with grayish brown; median 

 wing-coverts dingy. Ad. $. No rusty; above black- 

 ish edged with grayish; below black bordered with 

 whitish. Notes. "Said to be quite different" from 

 those of No, 498. (Bendire.) (See page 178.} 



Ran^e. Northpm Lower California north to southern Oregon; local 

 Jn valleys of interior. 



523. Aleutian Leucosticte {Leucosticte griseonucha). 

 Like No. 524a, but much darker, breast chestnut- 

 chocolate; larger, W. 4.4. 



Range— Island's of Bering Sea (resident); in winter. Sliumaeln 

 Isl^rnds. Inwt^r pnrtlnn of Alaska Peninsula and Kadlak Island. 



524. Gray-crowned Leucosticte (Leucosticte tephro- 

 £ot*s). L. 6.7; W. 4.1. Ad. t^. Reddish brown 

 more or less tipped with grayish; rump, upper tail- 

 coverts, lesser wing-coverts, outer edges of primaries, 

 and lower belly tipped with pink; forecrown black; 

 hindhead gray; cheeks down to blaekish throat brown. 

 Ad. 9« Similar but duller. Yng. Nearly uniform 

 brownish; margins of primaries showing some 

 pink. JVote. A quick alarm note, ^jm, grw!. (Silloway.) 



Range —Western United States; Ijreeds iti hieher parts of Sierra 

 Nevada of Caliiornln, from Mt. Shasta souih to Mt. Whitney, and on 

 Whhe Mouniatns (Grinneil) ; north in Rocky Mountains to British 

 Columbra; In winter ea^[ to Manitoba, Colorado, and Nebraska. 



524a. Hepburn Leucosticte (/,. t. litloralis). Sim- 

 ilar to No. 524, but cheeks gray like hindhead; throat 

 «ften grayish. 



Range. — Higher mountains of Washingioit and British Columbia; 

 north to Alaska; winters south to Colorado and, on Pacific Coast, as 

 far north as Kadiak Island. 



525. Black Leucosticte {LettccsfMe atrata). Simi- 

 lar to No, 524, but brown replaced by brownish black 

 in Ad. ci^i or dusky slate brownish in Ad. ? and Yng. 



Range. — Breeds on hig-her mountains of Idaho and Wyoming; 

 winters south to Colorado and Utah. 



526. Brown-capped Leucosticte {Leucosticte aus- 

 iralis). Resembles iNo. 524, but little of no gray on 

 hindhead, the black of forehead passing gradually into 



brown of nape and back- 

 Ranee— Breeds in mountatnE of Colorado at about 10000 fBBt alti- 

 tude, winters at lowar altitudes and south to NewMe:tlco. 



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