[107] Of this highly colored form, the average length of five specimens is 7.55; in twelve the average is, wing, 3.67; tail, 2.86; culmen, .67. The bill appears to be slightly darker than in North American examples.
[108] Coccothraustes abeillii, Sclater, Catal. Am. B. 123 (Guiraca abeillii, Lesson).
[109] Carpodacus frontalis, var. hæmorrhous, Carpodacus hæmorrhous, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, 304. (Fringilla hæmorrhous, Licht. Verz. 1831.)
[110] Loxia curvirostra, Linn., Syst. Nat. 299.
[111] Loxia bifasciata, De Selys-Longchamps, Faune Beige, 76. Bonap. & Schlegel, Mon. des Loxiens, 7.
[112] Fringilla linaria, Temm. Mass. Orn. 1835, 267 (not of Linnæus). “Fringilla rufescens, Vieill. Faun. Franç. tab. 41, f. 1.” Linota montium, Bp. & Schlegel, Mon. Lox. 1850. “Linaria flavirostris, Brehm.”
[113] Leucosticte brunneinucha. Fringilla (Linaria) brunneinucha, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersburg, 1841, 35. Montifringilla (Leucosticte) brunneinucha, Bon. & Schlegel, Mon. Loxiens, 1850, 36, pl. xlii.
[114] As this sheet is going through the press, we have been permitted by Mr. J. A. Allen to examine a series of birds, obtained by him in July, 1871, on Mt. Lincoln, Colorado, above the timber line, where they were breeding abundantly. Although very different from winter L. tephrocotis, they yet strongly suggest the idea of their being that species in summer dress. They present the following characteristics:—
Breeding plumage. Differing from the stage first described above, in entire absence of any ash about the head, and in deep black, instead of yellowish bill. ♂ with the red tints intense carmine, instead of peach-blossom pink, that of the abdomen extending farther forward. ♀ lacking the red, or with only a tinge of it. Hood dark vandyke-brown, becoming nearly black on the forehead; rest of head light chocolate-brown, similar to, but more faded than, that of the winter plumage; nasal tufts grayish-white.
Ten specimens collected by Mr. Allen all agree in the characters pointed out, by which they differ from the winter plumage of L. tephrocotis. Taking into consideration the fact of their black instead of yellowish bill, more intense red, and generally more dusky colors, as well as the other points of distinction from the previously known plumages of L. tephrocotis, and also that they are identical in size and proportion, while specimens of L. tephrocotis in the breeding plumage have not before been seen, it seems very reasonable to suppose that these specimens represent the breeding plumage of that species. There is some resemblance to L. brunneinucha, which, from the plate in Bonaparte and Schlegel’s monograph of the Coccothraustinæ, seems to differ mainly in being lighter colored. Mr. Allen says that these birds were breeding abundantly in the locality where they were found.