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ZOOLOGY BIRDS. 



JUNCO HYEMALIS (Linn.). 

 Black Snowbird. 



Frinyilla hycmalis, LINN., Syst. Nat, i, 10th ed., 1758, 183 (uot of GMELIN or LATHAM). 



Strutlms hyemalis, Wooon., Sitgreave's Exp. Zuiii & Col. Riv., 1854. 83. 



Junco hyemalis, BD., Birds N. A., 1858, 468. HAYD., Traus. Am. Phil. Soc., xii, 1862, 

 167. OOTJES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 85 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.). 

 Id., Key N..A. Birds, 1872. 141. AIKEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1872, 

 201. BD., BREW., & RIDG., N. A. Birds, i, 1874, 580, pi. xxvi, f. 5. YAR- 

 ROW & HENSHAW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 15. 

 HENSHAW, Au. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., xi, 1874, G. Id., An. List Birds Utah, 

 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 44. COUES, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1874, 141. 



Perhaps rare, but a single specimen having been secured at Iron Springs, 

 Utah, October 4. Not recorded before from so far west. It is by no means 

 certain that the occurrence of this snowbird here is merely accidental. The 

 specimen obtained was shot from among a flock of the Junco oregonus, 

 which was exceedingly numerous ; and, its true identity not being known 

 at the time, I took no pains to ascertain its relative numbers as compared 

 with oregonm. It may occur during the migrations regularly. 



JUNCO HYEMALIS (Linn.), var. AIKENI, Ridg. 



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White-winged Snowbird. 



Junco hycmalis var. aikeni, AIKEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xv, 1872, 201. COUES, 

 Check-List, app., No. 174". Id, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, J41 (in text). 

 RlDG., Am. Nat., vii, 1873, 613, 615 (characterized by two white wing-bands 

 across tip of median and greater coverts, and an additional feather of tail 

 white). BD., BREW., & RIDG., N. A. Birds, i, 1874, 584, pi. xxvi, f. 6. 

 HENSHAW, Rep. Oru. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 114. COUES, 

 U. S. Geol. Snrv. Terr., 1874, 141. 



This race of the common snowbird (hyemalis) is found late in the fall 

 and winter, distributed over quite a large area in the middle Rocky Mount- 

 ains of the United States. I found it and the two succeeding forms, mingled 



