BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 27l 



son, Nevada); Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., lS7o, 274, pi. 11 (Iron Springs, 

 Toquerville, and St. George, Utah; San Luis, Colorado; Gila R., Arizona). 



Poospiza belli, var. neradensis Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 

 i, 1874, 594.— Bendire, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1877, 119 (Camp Harney e. 

 Oregon, breeding). 



Poospiza belli . . . var. nevadensis Hexshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Snrv., 

 1876, 243 (near Kernville, California, 1 spec. Oeto]:)er 28) . 



Poospiza belli neradensis Ridgwav, Bull. Essex Inst., vii, Jan., 1875, 11, 13, 19, 21, 

 (localities in Nevada and Utah). — Goss, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 

 116 (San Marcial, New Mexico, fall and winter; habits, etc.). 



A.[)nphispiza'\ bellii var. nevadensis Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 234, in text. 



A-lmphispiza] belli nevadensis Henshaw, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 296 

 (Carson, Nevada, etc.; descr. nest and eggs). 



Amphispiza bellii neradensis Ridgway, Prqc. U. S. Nat. ]\Ius., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 180, 

 217. 



Amplmpnza belli neradensis Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 225«. — Coues, 

 Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 260.— Drew, Auk, ii, 1885, 16 (Colorado, up to 

 7,000 ft.). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 574rt. — 

 Scott, Auk, iv, 1887, 203 (Santa Catalina Mts., Arizona, 1 spec. Sept.). — 

 Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 206 (Fort Davis, w. Texas, winter) ; Bull, 

 no. 37, State Agri. Col. Colorado, 1897, 106 (east as far as San Luis Park, and 

 up to 8,000 ft.); Bull. no. 44, 1898, 166 (near Cheyenne, Wyoming).— 

 Stephens, Auk, vii, 1890, 296, 297 (Colorado Desert, California, winter). — 

 Merriam, North Am. Fauna, no. 5, 1891, 103 (Birch Creek, Lemhi R., Snake 

 R., etc., Idaho). — Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 144. — Grinnell, 

 Pub. ii, Pasadena Acad. Sci., 1898, 39 (head of Tujunga Canon, s. e. Cali- 

 fornia; 3,000 to 6,000 ft. in summer, lower mesas in winter). ^Fisher, Auk, 

 XV, 1898, 190 (crit.). 



A.[m}>Mspiza~\ b\eUi'\ neradensis Coues, Ke}- N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 376. 



A.lmphispiza} belli nevadensis Ridgway', Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887,427. 



Amphispiza neradensis Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 476 (localities in 

 Nevada and Utah; habits, song, etc.). — Grinnell, Auk, xv, 1898,58,59 

 (central Los Angeles Co., California, 4,000 to 6,000 ft., July; crit.). 



[Amphispiza belli.'] Subsp. a. Amphispiza nevadensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xii, 1888,630 ("British Columbia"; San Bernardino, California, etc.). 



Amphispiza belli rinerea ? (not of Townsend) Price. Bull. Cooper Orn. Club, i, 1899, 

 93 (Yuma, Arizona, winter). 



Genus JUNCO Wagler. 



Junco Wagler, Isis, 1831, 526. (Type, ./. phmmoius Wagler.) 



StnitJins (not of Boie, 1826) Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. Li.st, 1838, 31. (Type, 



Emberiza lu/emalis Linnteus. ) 

 Niphiva^ Audubon, Synopsis Birds N. Am., 1839, 106. (Type, Emberiza hyemulis 



Linnpeus. ) 



Small or rather .small semiterrestrial Fring-illida?. with tail nearly 

 (sometimes quite) as long as wing, double-rounded; coloration of adults 

 plain, without streaks (except on back in a single aberrant species), 

 with lateral tail-feathers more or less white (except in the aberrant 

 species mentioned). 



^ "Name from Nt 0os, snow." 



