284 BULLETIN" 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



second tail-feather always (i) with les.s than half its area white; other- 

 wise like the male, but wings more tinged with ))rown, and vinaeeous- 

 cinnanion of sides and flanks rather duller or less pinkish; length 

 (skins), 131.57-147.07 (138.BS); wing, 7o.Hl-72.f)4 (71.37); tail, 59.44- 

 62.48 (60.96); exposed culmen, 10.41-11.43 (10.92); depth of bill at 

 l)ase (three specimens), 6.35-6.60 (6.60); tarsus, 19.56-21.59 (20.57); 

 middle toe, 13.46-15.24 (14.48).' 



VoiDxj. — Pileum and hlndneck grayi.sh ])rowu streaked with ])lack- 

 ish: back and scapulars more rufescent lirown (incliring to prout's 

 brown) streaked with black; throat, chest, sides, and flanks dull pale 

 l^urty streaked with blackish, the streaks broader and more or less 

 wedge-shaped on chest; otherwise essentialh' like adults. 



[Winter adults are like summer l)irds. but the colors are deeper or 

 richer, especially in the male, in which the back is rich Vandyke l)rown, 

 sharply contrasted with the deep black of the hindneck. and the feathers 

 of chest are more or less tipped (narrowly) with whitish. 



Younger birds in winter are like adults, but the males, at least, have' 

 the difl'erently colored areas less sharply contrasted.] 



Breeding from extreme northern end of British Columbia (Port " 

 Simpson, etc.), north along Alaskan coast, including islands, to Yaku- 

 tat Bay; accidental on Unalaska (one specimen, April 8, 1879). and on 

 outer Tliasik Island, near Belkofski, Alaska Peninsula (one specimen, 

 January, 188'.»);" in winter, south along the coast to Santa Cruz and 

 San Mateo counties, California, occasionally straggling to the interior 

 (Fort Klamath, e. Oregon. October; West Humboldt Mountains. Nevada, 

 Octol)er). 



Fringilla ori'go)ta Townsend, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sri. Phila., vii, 1837, LS8 ( "forests 

 near the Columbia River; " type -^ in U. 8. Nat. Mus. ) ; Narrative, LS39, 345. 



Fringilla oregona Audubox, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 68, ]>1. 398. 



F. \_ringilla'\ oregona Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 372. 



Struihus oregonus Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 31. — Newberry, Rep. 

 Pacilic R. R. Surv., vi, pt. iv, 1857, 88, part (San Francisco, California, 

 winter). 



Niphiea Oregon a Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 107; Birds Am., oct. ed., iii, 1S41, 91, 

 pi. 168. 



Niphita oregona Baird, in Stansl)ury's Rep. (rt. Salt Lake, 1852, 316, part (Ore- 

 gon ; California ? ) . 



N.[;iphaea'] oregonu Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1851, 134 (Sitka). 



Junco oregonus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 7. — Bairu, Rep. Pacific R. 

 R. Surv., ix, 1858, 466, part; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 352, part.— Cooper 

 and SucKLEY, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 202, part (Puget Sound, 

 etc., winter). — Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 284 

 (Sitka, Alaska).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 199, part.— (?) Finsch, Abh. Nat. 

 Ver. Bremen, iii, 1872, 53(Alexandrovsk, Alaska). — Coues, Check List, 1873, 

 no. 175?, part; Birds N. W., 1874, 142, part.— Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 



^ Ten specimens. 



^ In collection of Chase Littlejohn. 



■^Townsend's specimens, including the type, are winter birds. 



