Note 116 — Family FRINGILLIDÆ.—The Finches. (continued 5)

Hybrid between oregonus and caniceps, = “annectens,” Baird, Geol. Surv. Cal. Orn. I, p. 564.

Char. Pinkish sides and convex outline to ash of breast, as in oregonus, with the bright rufous back and ashy head, with black lores of caniceps; a tendency in the rufous of back to tinge the wings, as in oregonus. Hab. Southern Rocky Mountains. (Fort Whipple, Arizona, Coues; Fort Bridger, Wyoming, Drexler; Fort Burgwyn, Mountains of Colorado, Aiken.)