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Amphispiza nevadensis canescens Grinnell. California Sage Sparrow. 



[574.16.] 



Amphispiza belli canescens Grinnell, Condor, VII, No. 1, Jan. 17, 1905, 

 18. (Seymour Creek Meadow, 5500 ft., Mount Pinos, Ventura County, 

 California.) 



Range. — Breeds in Austral zones of east-central California from Fresno 

 south at least to Mount Pinos, Ventura County, west to Carrizo Plain, San 

 Luis Obispo County; and east to Owens VaUey. In winter more widely 

 distributed, reaching extreme northeastern Lower California. ' 



Genus JUNCO Wagler. 



Junco Wagler, Isis von Oken, [XXIV] 1831, Heft v (May), col. 526. 

 Type, by monotypy, Junco phaeonotus Wagler. 



Junco aikeni Ridgway. White-winged Junco. [566.] 



Junco hyemalis var. Aikeni Ridgway, Amer. Nat., VII, No. 10, Oct., 

 1873, 613, 615. (Near Fountain = El Paso County, Colorado.) 



Range. — ^Breeds in the Bear Lodge Mountains, Wyoming, the Black Hills, 

 South Dakota, and in northwestern Nebraska. Winters from the Black Hills 

 to southern Colorado and western Kansas and casually to Oklahoma, eastern 

 Kansas, and New Mexico. 



Junco hyemalis hyemalis (Linnaeus). Slate-colored Junco. [567.] 



Fringilla hyemalis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 183. Based on 

 The Snow-bird, Passer nivalis Catesby, Carolina, I, 36. (in America 

 = South Carolina.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Hudsonian and Canadian zones in northwestern 

 Alaska (Pt. Barrow), northern Mackenzie (tree limit), northern Manitoba, and 

 central Quebec south to the base of the Alaska Peninsula, southern Yukon, 

 central Alberta, northern Minnesota, central Michigan, Ontario, Maine, Nova 

 Scotia and in the mountains of Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. 

 Winters throughout the eastern United States and in southern Ontario south to 

 the Gulf coast. Casual in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Lower Cali- 

 fornia; accidental in Siberia.^ 



Junco hyemalis carolinensis Brewster. Carolina Junco. [567e.] 



Junco hyemalis carolinensis Brewster, Auk, III, No. 1, Jan., 1S86, 108. 

 (Black Mountain [Buncombe County], N. C.) 



' Includes Junco hyemalis connectens Coues, variously regarded as based on 

 a hybrid or as a synonym and also considered to be a distinct race breeding in 

 the Stikine region of southeastern Alaska and northern British Columbia. Cf. 

 Swarth, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., XXXIV, No. 2, 1922, p. 243. 



