Perching Birds Chiefly Gray, Black, or Black and White 



GRAY-HEADED, BROWN-BACKED JUNCOS. 



569. Gray-headed Junco (/««< :o cania rps). L. 6.5; 

 W. 3.2; T. 2.9. Ads. Head, breast and sides gray; 

 back reddish brown; no reddish brown on wings; three 

 outer tail-feathers with white; upper and lower mandi- 

 bles pinkish. 



Range.— Breeds In mountains of southern Wyoming, Colorado, 

 Utah, Nevada, and northern New Mexico. (Ridgw.) 



570. Arizona Junco (Junco phceonotus pa Hiatus). 

 L. 6.5; W. 3.2; T. 2.9. Ads. Head gray; underparts 

 grayish white; back, and to a greater or less extent, 

 wing-coverts and tertials, reddish brown; three outer 

 tail-feathers with white; iris yellow; upper mandible 

 blackish, lower yellowish. Notes. Calls, resemble 

 those of No. 567; song suggests that of Song Sparrow. 



Range. — Breeds in mountains of southern Arizona and southward. 



570a. Red-backed Junco (Junco dorsalis) L. 6.7; 

 W. 3.3; T. 3. Ads. Head gray; underparts grayish 

 white', back reddish brown; no reddish brown on wings; 

 three outer tail-feathers with white; upper mandible 

 blackish, lower flesh-color; iris "brown." 



Range, — Breeds on high mountains of New Mexico and central 

 Arizona; winters south to northern Mexico and western Texas. 



BLACK-HEADED JUNCOS. 

 567a. Oregon Junco [Junco oreganus). L. 6.2; 

 W. 3. Ad. <j\ summer. Head, neck, throat and 

 breast black sharply defined from the mahogany brown 

 back, third outer tail-feather with little or no white; 

 sides washed with pinkish brown. Ad. $, summer. 

 Head and breast grayer, back paler. Ads. winter. 

 Back deeper ,the head and neck more or less tipped with 

 brown, the breast with gray, these areas less sharply 

 defined from the back and belly. 



Range. — Pacific coast; breeds from northern British Columbia to 

 Alaska; winters south to California. 



— Shufeldt Junco (J. 0. shufeldti). Similar to No. 

 567a, but larger, W. 3.1, brown of back less intense. 



Range. — Pacific coast; breeds from Oregon north to British Colum- 

 bia (and eastward in humid regions to Montana?); winters south to 

 northern Mexico. 



567b. Coues Junco (J. o. connectens). Similar to 

 shufeldti, but back paler, brownish gray, breast grayer, 

 sides with less pinkish brown, head and breast still 

 sharply defined from adjacent areas. 



Range. — Breeds in the interior of British Columbia and probably In 

 arid districts southward (breeding areas not definitely known); winters 

 southward doubtless to Mexican boundary. 



567c. Thurber Junco (J. 0. tkurberi). Similar to 

 No. 567, but back much paler, a bright pinkish brown; 

 head and breast black as in No. 567. 



Range. — Breeds in mountains from southern Oregon south to 

 southern California; east to western Nevada. 



567d. Point Pinos Junco (J. 0. pinosus). Similar 

 to No. 567c, but throat and breast slate-color. 



Range. — Santa Cruz district of California: breeds from King 

 Mountain, south at least to Point Sur, County; wanders eastward 

 in winter into Santa Clara and San Benito Valleys. (Grinnell.) 



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