. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . y black atrata, p. 317. 1. Body brown. 2. Body light brown australis. p. 317. 2. Body dark brown. 3. Gray of crown spreading down over sides of head. littoralis, p. 316. 3. Gray of crown not spreading down over sides of head. tephrocotis, p. 315. 524. Leucosticte tephrocotis Strains. GRAY-CROWNED LEU-COSTICTE. Adult male in summer. — Bill black ; crown black, bordered behind andon sides with gray, the gray not spreadingdown over sides of head; general body col
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . y black atrata, p. 317. 1. Body brown. 2. Body light brown australis. p. 317. 2. Body dark brown. 3. Gray of crown spreading down over sides of head. littoralis, p. 316. 3. Gray of crown not spreading down over sides of head. tephrocotis, p. 315. 524. Leucosticte tephrocotis Strains. GRAY-CROWNED LEU-COSTICTE. Adult male in summer. — Bill black ; crown black, bordered behind andon sides with gray, the gray not spreadingdown over sides of head; general body colordeep chestnut brown, lighter, and with black-ish mesial streaks on back, belly, and rump :upper tail coverts, wings, and tail more orless ting-ed with pink. Adult male in icin-ter : bill yellow, tipped with blackish ; brownfeathers edged w-itn whitish ; black of crownrestricted. Adult female : like male, withthe same seasonal changes, but averagingpaler and duller. Young: plain brownish,without black or gray on head, or rosy tailcoverts. Male: length (skins) tail , bill .42-. 4s. Fig. 402. o. 316 FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. Female: length (skins) , wing , tail , bill . Distribution.— Interior of British America; wintering in the RockyMountain region of the United States, most abundantly on the easternslope, and extending to western Nebraska. Recorded as breeding in theSierra Nevada and the White Mountains in California. Food. — Ants, small beetles, and other insects, pine seeds and plantseeds. The leucostictes are birds of the mountain snow-banks and feed on seeds and insects blown to the heights and left to bepicked up about the border of the melting snow. They are oftenfound at an altitude of from 11,000 to 12,000 feet, and under thecrest of Mt. Whitney, at about 15,000 feet, Mr. Frank Daggettfound a pair picking up insects from a snow-drift. When a hail-storm passed over the. peak the bird
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