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rectrix mostly white, but basal portion of inner web extensively 

 dusky; second rectrix with terminal third (approximately) of inner 

 web white; sides and flanks pinkish buff; breast, abdomen, and under 

 tail-coverts white; maxilla dusky brown, mandible yellowish (bright 

 yellow in life); iris bright orange-yellow; tarsi light brown, toes 

 darker. 



Adults in vxinter. — Similar to summer adults, but plumage softer, 

 colors rather deeper (the back, throat, and chest especially), the 

 hindneck and occiput usuall}- washed or tinged with light brown. 



Young. — Much like adults, but pileum and hindneck buffy grayish, 

 streaked with dusky; back and scapulars streaked with dusky; chin 

 and throat dull white, flecked with dusky; chest pale buffy, wdth 

 wedge-shaped dusky streaks, and sides and flanks light buffy. 



AdvJt males.— Length (skins), 130.81-148.08 (111.22); wing, 70.87- 

 72.39 (71.37); tail, 60.96-65.79 (61.01); exposed culmen, 10.67-11.13 

 (11.18); depth of bill at base (one specimen), 7.11; tarsus. 20.57-21.31 

 (20.83); middle toe, 13.16-11.99 (11.22).^ 



Adult females.— Length (skins) 133.35-111.73 (137.67); wing, 66.80- 

 68.33 (67.56); exposed culmen, 10.67-10.92 (10.79); depth of bill at 

 base, 7.11; tarsus, 20.07; middle toe, 13.97.' 



Southern part of Lower California (Victoria Mountains, Mount 

 Miraflores, etc.). 



Jiinco bairdi " Belding, M.S." Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.,vi, no. 10, Oct. 5, 

 1883, 155 (Laguna, Lower California; IT. S. Nat. Mus. ), 348 (crit. ). — Bel- 

 ding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 348 (Victoria Mts., Lower California, 

 alt. 3,000 ft.) . — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no.571. — 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 653. 



/. [urico] bairdi Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 425. 



JUNCO CANICEPS (Woodhouse). 

 GRAY-HEADED JTJNCO. 



Head, neck, chest, and sides gray; interscapulars rufous or ])rown, 

 but none of this color on wings; bill light broAvn (pinkish in life). 



Adults- in f<xnuiiu'r {sexes alike). — Head, neck, chest, sides, flanks, 

 scapulars, smaller wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts plain 

 slate-graj", the inferior portions lighter (intermediate between gray 

 no. 7 and olive-gray); abdomen, anal region, and under tail-coverts 

 white; lores slate-blackish; interscapulars cinnamon-rufous, forming 

 a conspicuous dorsal patch, this sometimes broken by admixture of 

 grayish (rareh" — in some females only ? — replaced by a patch of rusty 

 olive-brownish); greater wing-coverts, remiges, and six middle rectrices 

 dusk}^ edged with slate-grajdsh (edgings on primaries narrower, more 

 sharply defined, and paler); outermost rectrices white, the second 



^Five specimens. ^Two specimens. 



