BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 283 



North Carolina, alt. 4,000 ft.; resident). — Brewster, Auk, iii, 1886,. 98, in 

 text (mountains of w. North Carolina). — Rives, Auk, iii, 1886, 157, 160, in 

 text (Salt Pon<l Mountain, s. w. Virginia, June). — Batcheldek, Auk, iii, 

 1886, 308 (Asheville, North Carolina, winter). 



Junco Jtyemalis carolinensis Brewster, Auk, iii, Jan., 1886, 108 (Black Mountain, 

 w. North Carolina; coll. W. Brewster). — Batchelder, Auk, iii, 1886, 312 

 (crit. ). — Sennett, Auk, iv, 1887, 242 (mountains of w. North Carolina, above 

 3,000ft.; crit.). — Jefkries, Auk, vi, 1889, 121 (Highlands, w. Nyrth Caro- 

 lina, Mav). — Ch.\pman, Auk, v, 1888, 398. — Nehrlinc4, Our Native Birds, 

 etc., ii, 1896, 139.— Rives, Auk, xv, 1898, 136 (spruce region. West Virginia); 

 Cat. Birds Virginias, 1890, 74 (White Top Mt., breeding). — American Orni- 

 thologists' Union Committee, Auk, ix, 1892,107; Check List, 2d ed., 1895, 

 no. 567f. 



J. [uftco] hyemaliH carolinensis Riixjway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 423. 



Junco canAinensis Brewster, Auk, iii, April, 1886, 277, in text. — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Suppl. to Check List, 1889, 13; Check List, abridged 

 ed., 1889, no. 567.1.— Dwight, Auk, vih, 1891, 290 (crit.). 



[JiiKco liiemalis.] Sul)sp. ex. Junco cdrolinens'iH Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. ^Mus., 

 xii, 1888, 649. 



JUNCO OREGANUS OREGANUS iTownsend). 

 OREGON JTJNCO. 



Adult iiudr. — Head, neck, tuid chest black (sometimes inclining to 

 slate-black on throat and chest), sharply or abruptly defined all round 

 posteriorly; back and scapulars chestnut, chocolate, or walnut brown, 

 varying- to chocolate or Vandyke brown or warm sepia; rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, and lesser and middle wing-coverts dull slate-gray or mouse 

 gray; wings and tail blackish, the greater coverts (broadly), primaries, 

 secondaries, and rectrices (narrowly) edged with gravish; innermost 

 greater coverts and secondaries with outer webs mostly lu'ownish; out- 

 ermost tail-feather white, sometimes with a little dusky on basal por- 

 tion of inner web; second tail-feather mostly white, and third partly 

 white near tip; sides and flanks light vinaceous- cinnamon, the latter 

 more or less tinged or mixed with grayish brown; rest of under parts 

 (posterior to chest) white; bill pinkish white (in life), with a little 

 dusky at tip; iris reddish brown or claret red; tarsi light brownish, 

 toes darker; length (skins), 139.70-154.18 (144.27); wing, 72.H4-7S.23 

 (75.18); tail, 61.72-68.33(64.77); exposed culmen, 10.41-11.43 (10.92); 

 depth of bill at base (two specimens), 6.35-6.60 (6.42); tarsus, 20.32- 

 21.84 (21.08); middle toe, 13.21-15.24 (14.48).^ 



Adidt ftfiiudc. — Quite different from the male. Head, neck, and 

 chest dull slate color or mouse gray, the pileum and hindneck mosth^ 

 brown (light bistre or sepia); back and scapulars light bistre or sepia 

 brown, varying to prout's brown, lighter in color than l)rown of hind- 

 neck; rump, upper tail-coverts, and smaller wing-coverts hair brown; 



^ Ten specimens. 



