Nesting.—Not known to breed in Washington. “_Nest_ made of strips of bark and grass, built in a fissure of a rock at the side of a bunch of grass” (Reed). _Eggs_: 4 or 5, white. _Season_: June; one brood. General Range.—Imperfectly made out—probably discontinuous. Reported breeding from such widely separated localities as the Rocky Mountains of British America and the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains of southern California; winters on the eastern slopes of the Rockies and irregularly eastward to western Nebraska, Manitoba, etc., westward to Cascade and Sierra Nevada ranges (Camp Harvey, Ore. Pullman, Wash. Chilliwhack, B. C.). Range in Washington.—Probably of regular occurrence during migrations and in winter east of the Cascade Mountains only. Authorities.—_Not previously reported_; W. T. Shaw _in epistola_, Dec. 31, 1908. Specimens.—Pullman. Mountain climbing as an art is still in its infancy in the Northwest and altho the Mountaineers and the Mazamas are attacking the situation vigorously we have yet much to learn of the wild life upon our Washington sierras. But what problem could be more fascinating to a lover of birds and mountains than that of working out accurately the distribution of the Rosy Finches in America? They are the mountaineers _par excellence_, they are the Jebusites of the untaken citadels, and our ignorance of their ways will ere long become a reproach to our vaunted western enterprise. As it stands, however, only scanty crumbs of information have come to us concerning this most interesting and widely distributed race of Highlanders. The Gray-crowned Leucosticte is considered the central figure of the genus, shading[14], as it does, into _L. atrata_ of the Bitterroots and _L. australis_ of Colorado, into _L. t. littoralis_ of southern British Columbia, Washington and Oregon, and (perhaps _thru littoralis_) into _griseonucha_ of the Aleutians. This assumes for the species a center of distribution in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan where the bird is known to occur. And so because of the greater severity of the winters in its normal haunts this form is found to be the greatest wanderer of its group, being frequently driven in the fall far out upon the central eastern plains or down the “inside passage” between the Rockies and Sierras. It was in this fashion, probably, that a colony of this species became established in the southern Sierras of California, where it now maintains a vigorous existence separated, as we suppose, by at least a thousand miles from the parent stock in British Columbia. No. 28. HEPBURN’S LEUCOSTICTE. A. O. U. No. 524a. Leucosticte tephrocotis littoralis (Baird). Synonyms.—Rosy Finch. Hepburn’s Rosy Finch. Baird’s Rosy Finch.