Perching Birds Chiefly Gray, Black, or Black and White 



GRAY-HEADED JUNCOS. 



566. White-winged Junco [[unco aikent) . L. 6.5; 

 W. 3.30 Ads. Resembling No. 567, but larger, 

 paler, wings generally with two white bars; three outer 

 tail-feathers mostly or entirely white; fourth partly 

 white. 



Range —Breeds in Wyoming d western North Dakota; winters in 

 Colorado, western Kansas, casuallv to Indiana and Wisconsin. 

 (Ridgw.) 



567. Slate-colored Junco (Junco hyemalis) . L. 6.2. 



W. 3. Ad. tf, summer. Head and back gray, the 

 crown sometimes slightly darker, the feathers usually 

 more or less tipped with brownish; breast and sides 

 gray; belly white; third outer tail-feather with white. 

 Ad. ?, summer. Similar, but brown wash stronger. 

 Ads., winter. Brown tips to feathers longer, sides 

 sometimes brownish. Notes. Calls, a sharp, kissing 

 note and a rapid chew-chew-chew; song, a simple, twit- 

 tering trill. 



Range. — Eastern North America, breeds from northern New Eng- 

 land, northern New York, and northern Minnesota north to Labrador 

 and northwest to Alaska; and southward along the Alleghanies to 

 Pennsylvania; winters south to the Gulf States. 



567e. Carolina Junco (J. h. carolinensis) . Similar 

 to No. 567, but slightly larger, W. 3.2, the upperparts 

 and breast uniform slate-gray without a brownish wash 

 the bill horn color. 



Range. — Alleghanies from Virginia to Georgia. 



568. Pink-sided Junco (Junco mearnst). L. 6.2. 

 Ad. cf, summer. Sides broadly brownish pink, center 

 of belly white; breast pale slate-gray, crown darker, 

 back washed with brownish. Ad. 9 »« summer. Sim- 

 ilar to the rj\ but with less pink on sides, the crown 

 washed with gray. Ads. winter. Similar to summer 

 Ads., but with more brownish. 



Range.- Breeds in southern Idaho and south-central Montana; 

 winters south through Wyoming and Colorado to northern Mexico. 



567,1. Montana Junco (Junco montauus). Similar 

 to No. 568, but with less pink on the sides, the throat 

 and breast darker slate. 



Range. - Breeding from northwestern Montana and northern Idaho 

 north to northwest Territory and Alberta; in winter south to Mexico, 

 east more or less irregulaily to the Mississippi, Massachusetts, and 

 Maryland. (Ridgw.) 



57 1. Baird Junco (Junco bairdi). Back and sides 

 rusty cinnamon, head gray, throat and breast grayish 



white, belly white. 



Range. — Cape Region of Lower California. 



572. Guadalupe Junco (Junco insularis). Similar 

 to mearnst but smaller, W. 2.7, bill longer, head and 



breast darker. 

 Range.— Guadalupe Island, Lower California. 



57 1.1. Townsend Junco (Junco tovmsendt). Similar 

 to No. 567.1, but with the back grayer, the brownish 

 wash much reduced. 



Range. — Snn Pedro Martir Mountains, northern Lower California, 



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