. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. y 130 FRINGILLIDiE, FINCHES, ETC. GEN. 60, 61. tainous parts of New Mexico, and southward. Bd., 427 (in text), 924. My New Mexican specimens show a bill almost matching that of C pytiopsittacus of Europe. 60. Genus LEUCOSTICTE Swainson. *j,.* Sides of the under mandible with a small sharp oblique ridge; nasal tufts conspicuous. ^ " Gray-cr
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. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. y 130 FRINGILLIDiE, FINCHES, ETC. GEN. 60, 61. tainous parts of New Mexico, and southward. Bd., 427 (in text), 924. My New Mexican specimens show a bill almost matching that of C pytiopsittacus of Europe. 60. Genus LEUCOSTICTE Swainson. *j, .* Sides of the under mandible with a small sharp oblique ridge; nasal tufts conspicuous. ^ " Gray-crowned Finch. Cliocolate or liver-brown, the feathers posteriorly skirted with rosy or lavender, wings and tail dusky, rosy-edged, chin dusky with little or no ashy, crown alone clear ash, forehead alone black, bill and nasal feathers whitish, feet black; 9 not particularly ditferent; about 7; wing 4^ ; tail 2f ; a little forked. In midsummer, the black frontlet extends over the crown, the rosy heightens to crimson, and the bill blackens ; the whole plumage is likewise darlcer. Rocky Mountain region, south to Colo- rado. AuD., iii, 176, pi. 198; Bd., 430; Coop., 164. tepiirocotis. Var. CAMPESTRis Bd., in Coop., 1G3. Colorado. In the specimen described, the ash of the head extends a little below the eyes but not on the auriculars, and forms a narrow border on the chin ; thus approximating to the next. Var. GRiSEixuciiA. Gray-eared Finch. The ash of the ead extending over the whole cheeks and ears and part of the chin ; the black frontlet extending over most of the crown. Larger than average tepiirocotis. Aleutian Islands. Bd., 430 (footnote) ; Trans. Chicago Acad. FIG. 77. G. , - aredFmch(5). ^ggg^ pj_ gS, f. 2 ; CoOP., 161. Var. i.iTTOKALis Bd., Trans. Chicago Acad. 18G9, p. 317, pi. 28, f. 1 ; Coop., 163. In the specimens described, from Sitka and British Columbia, the whole head including the chin, except the black frontlet, is ashy. The gradations noted in the foregoing paragr