298 bulletitn" 50, united states national museum. 



longer, bill larger, with mandible flesh-colored or lilac whitish instead 

 of yellow, iris })rowii instead of yellow, rufous of upper parts con- 

 fined to the interscapular region (the scapulars and greater wing- 

 coverts being pure gray), and with the two lateral rectrices more 

 extensively white. 



Adult ma^d.— Length (skins), 147.57-163.83 (1.54.43); wing, 81.79- 

 86.61 (84.58); tail, 72.90-76.96 (75.18); exposed culmen, 11.18-12.70 

 (11.94); depth of bill at base, 7.11-8.13 (7.62); tarsus, 19.81-22.10 

 (21.34); middle toe, 14.22-15.24 (14.99).^ 



Adult female.— J^^ngth (skins), 139.45-155.45 (146.30); wing, 76.20- 

 81.53 (79.25); tail, 68.3.3-74.17 (70.36); exposed culmen, 11.43-12.19 

 (11.68); depth of })ill at base, 7.37-7.62 (7.62); tarsus, 20.57-21.08 

 (20.83).^ 



Breeding on high mountains of New Mexico (Nutria, San Miguel 

 County, Lincoln County, etc.) and central Arizona (White Mountains, 

 San Francisco Mountains, Mogollon Mountains, near Apache, etc.); 

 southward in winter to northeastern Sonora, northwestern Chihuahua 

 (San Diego), and western Texas (Fort Davis). 



Str ntlius canicepsV\^ ooDH.ovii^, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuili and Col. R., 1853, 

 83, part (description?). 



Junco clorsalh Henry, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., x, May, 1858, 117 (Fort Thorn, 

 New Mexico; U. R. Nat. Mns. ) ; 1859, 107 (Fort Stanton, New Mexico, breed- 

 ing).— Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 467; ed. 1860 ("Birds N. 

 Am."), atlas, pi. 28, fig. 1; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 351.— Brewer, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 73 (near Camp Apache, Arizona, breeding; 

 descr. eggs).— Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 221. — Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 655 ("Fort Bridger, Utah '"3). 



\_Janco] dorsalisi Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 93, no. 7371. 



lJu7ico canice])^'] var. dorsalis Hexshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 

 (1874), 113 (crit.). 



Junco caniceps . . . var. fZorsoZ/sHExsHAw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 

 (1874), 115 (Nutria, New Mexico, July; White Mts., New Mexico, Sept.; 

 White Mts., Arizona, Sept.; habits). 



Junco dnereus . . . var. dorsalis Henshaav, Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 270, 

 pi. 9 (White Mts., Arizona, July; mts. of s. w. New Mexico; Nutria, New 

 Mexico, July 19; Camp Apache, Arizona, breeding; habits; descr. nest and 

 eggs). 



Junco cinereus var. dorsalis Stephens, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, April, 1878, 94 

 (breeding in higher mts. of New Mexico). 



Junco dnereus dorscdis Brbwhter, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, Oct., 1882, 195(Chiri- 

 cahua Mts., s. Arizona, Mar. 26). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 

 1885, 355; Auk, ii, 1885, 364 (crit.); Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 423.— Ameri- 

 can Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 570a. — Scott, Auk, iv, 

 1887, 201 (Santa Catalina Mts., s. Arizona, Jan., Apr.). — Allen, Auk, iv, 

 1887, 201 (crit.); Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., v, 1893, 39 (San Diego, n. w. Chi- 

 huahua, Nov.).— Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Yal., 1888, 206 (Fort Davis, w. 



1 Eight specimens. 

 ■■^ Three specimens. 

 * Either the identification or the localitv erroneous. 



