300 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



replaced b}- g-rayish white, and flanks and other posterior lower parts 

 more or less tinged with buflV. 



Adult /nrtZtf.— Length (skins), 14:3.51-15t».TT (151. 6.t); wing, 77.22- 

 84.07 (7U.50); tail, t)S.,s8-73.60 (71.63); exposed culmen, 11.43-12.19 

 (ll.!»l): depth of bill at base, 7.11-7.87 (7.37): tarsus, 20.57-22.35 

 (21.59); middle toe, 13.97-15.24 (14.73).' 



Adult female.— IjQw^t}! (skins), 138.94-150.88 (145.29); wing, 70.61- 

 76.71 (75.69); tail, 65.02-70.87 (68.58); exposed culmen, 10.67-12.45 

 (11.68); depth of bill at base, 6.60-7.62 (7.11); tarsus, 20.83-22.10 

 (21.34); middle toe, 13.72-14.99 (14.22).' 



High mountains of central and southern Mexico, in States of San 

 Luis Potosi, Hidalgo, Vera Cruz, Puebla, Oaxaca (Mount Zempoal- 

 tepec), Mexico, Tlaxcala, Michoacan. Jalisco, Durango, Coahuila (Sierra 

 Encarnacion), and southern Chihuahua (Colonia Garcia). 



Fringilla cinerea (not of Gmelin, 1788) Swaixson, Philos. Mag., new ser., i, 1827, 

 435 ( Temascaltepec, Mexico). 



F. l_ri)igilla'\ cinerea Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 372. 



[Junco'] cinerea BoNArARTE, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 486. 



Junco cinereus Cabanis, Mus. Hein, i, 1851, 134, footnote. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1856, 306 (El Jacale, Vera Cruz); 1858, 304 (La Parada, 

 Oaxaca); 1859, 365 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz); 1864, 174 (Valley of Mexico); Cat. 

 Am. Birds, 1862, 115 (Jalapa; Popocatapetl). — Baird, Rep. Pacific E. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 465 (Mexico); Cat. X. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 350.— Duges, 

 La Naturaleza, i, 1868, 140 (Guanajuato). — Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., i, 1869, 551 (alpine reg. Orizaba, Vera Cruz). — Baird, Brewer, and 

 RiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 580, footnote. — Salvin, Cat. Strick- 

 land Coll., 1882, 232 (Mexico).— Ridgway, Auk, ii, 1885, 363 (crit.); Proc. 

 r. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 145 (crit.).— Salvix and Godmax, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves, i, 1886, 373.— Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 

 145 (Teziutlan, Puebla, Nov.) .— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 653, 

 part (excl. syn. part). — Stoxe, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 215 (Chal- 

 chicomula, Vera Cruz, 11,000 ft. ; Popocatapetl, 11,000 ft. ; Volcan de Toluca, 

 8,000 ft.)— JouY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1894, 779 (Charcas, San Luis 

 Potosi, 7,000-8,000 ft., Nov. 13).— Cox, Auk, xii, 1895, 357 (foot of M(junt 

 Orizaba to 11,000 ft. ) .— Chapmax, Bull. Am. Mus. , x, 1898, 41 (Las Vigas, Vera 

 Cruz, 8,000 ft., breeding; song). 



[Juncol cinereus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 93, no. 7368. — Sclater and Salvix, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 32. 



J. \_nnco'] cinereus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 423. 



l^Junco hyemalis'] var. cinereus Ridgway, Am. Nat., vii, Oct., 1873, 613 (crit.). — 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 580. 



[Junco caniceps] var. cinereus Hexshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 

 (1874), 113, part (crit.). 



J-lunco'} 2^haeonotus 'WaqtuEr, Isis, 1831, 526 (Mexico). 



IJunco'] j)haenotus Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxvii, 1853, 918. 



Junco phseonotus 'RiTiGW \y , Xnk, xii, 1895, 391, crit. 



J.[inico'] ph:ronofus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 423. 



^ Eight specimens. 



