FRINGILLIDJ3 — THE FINCHES. 
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Gf ' jut, 18 1872 
Genus LEUCOSTICTE, 
Swain son. (Page 44.) 
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Common Characters. Body anteriorly chocolate-brown ; posteriorly tinged 
with rose-red. Wing-coverts (broadly) and quills edged with the same. Head 
above light ashy or silvery-gray, as are also the feathers around the base of upper 
mandible ; the forehead and a patch on crown blackish. Throat dusky, Nest 
on the ground ; eggs unspotted white. 
Additional Characters. The chocolate-colored feathers and the secondary quills, 
sometimes the tail-feathers and greater wing-coverts, edged with pale brownish- 
white or fulvous ; the interscapulars with darker centres. Bose of rump and 
upper tail-coverts in form of transverse bands at end of feathers, that of abdomen 
more a continuous wash. Lining of wings and axillars white, tinged with rose 
at ends of feathers. Feathers of crissum dark brown, edged with whitish, some- 
times tinged with rose. Bill generally reddish or yellowish, with blackish tip. 
Length about 6.50. (Var. griseinueha larger.) 
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A. 
B. 
Auriculars chocolate-brown. 
1. Whole side of head below the eye, including the auriculars, choco- j ‘ ' 
late-brown. Chin not bordered anteriorly with ash. In the breeding- 
season, head darker and ash wanting. Wing, 4.35 ; tail, 3.00 ; bill .44 ; 
tarsus, .72. Hah. Interior regions of North America. ( Gray-crowned 
Finch.) var. tephrocotis. 
2. Cheeks, lores, and anterior border of the chin ash-color. Wing, 4.00 ; 
tail, 2.80; bill, .44; tarsus, .70. Hah. Colorado and Wyoming Terri- 
tories. {Gray -cheeked Finch.) ..... var. camp estris, 
Auriculars ash-color. 
3. Wing, 4.30 ; tail, 3.00 ; bill, .40 ; tarsus (?). Chocolate of the breast, 
etc., light, exactly as in tephrocotis ; rose beneath restricted to the abdo- 
men ; lores and chin light ash. Hah. Northwest coast from Kodiak to 
Fort Simpson, east to Wyoming Territory. {Hepburn’s Finch.') 
var. littor alis. 
4. Length, 7.50 ; wing, 4.60 ; tail, 3.40 ; 
bill, .40 
tarsus, .78. Choco- 
A. 
late very dark, inclining to sepia; rose extending forward on to the 
breast ; lores blackish ; chin dusky gray . Hah. Aleutian Islands (St. 
George’s, Unalaschka, and Kodiak). ( Gray-eared Finch.) var. griseinueha. 
Genus PLECTROFHANES, Meyer. (Page 44.) 
Nest on ground. 
Species and Varieties. 
Prevailing color white. 
1. P. nivalis. Back, scapulars, ends of tertials, alula, terminal half of 
primaries and the middle tail-feathers, deep black ; otherwise pure white. 
9 • The black replaced by grayish with black spots ; crown grayish 
spotted with black. Young considerably tinged with ochraceous. 
Length, 6.75; wing, 4.35. Eggs greenish-white; blotched and lined 
with various shades of brown. Hah. Circumpolar regions ; south in 
winter into the United States. {Snow Bunting.) 
Above brown, spotted with black. £. Crown black. 
a. Six to ten middle tail-feathers almost wholly black ; the rest without 
black ends. $ with a nuchal collar of rufous or buff, and without rufous 
on the wings. 
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