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pink, leaving a narrow strip of white along the centre of the abdomen ; 

 bill pinkish, tipped with dusky, legs horn-brown. Length 6-10 ; wing 

 3.30 ; tail 3-0 ; cuknen .48 ; tarsus -70. 



The female resembles the male, but is smaller — wing 2-9 ; the young 

 bird has the crown and hind-neck washed with drab and the chest 

 with pinkish. 



Distribution. — Breeding in Idaho and Montana and migrating south- 

 wards to Arizona, New Mexico and the neighbouring portion of Old 

 Mexico. In Colorado the Pink-sided Junco is an abundant winter bird, 

 especially along the eastern base of the Rocky Movmtains, where it 

 abounds from the end of October to the middle of April ; the earhest 

 and latest dates for El Paso co. in the Aiken collection are October 24th 

 and April 24th, but Mr. Warren tells me he has seen and obtained 

 specimens as early as September 22nd on the Sapinero Creek in Gunnison 

 CO., and as late as May 5th at Sulphur Springs. Dennis Gale observed 

 this species at Ward in Boulder co., at an elevation of 10,000 feet, in 

 early April, so that it is by no means confined to the plains. 



Other recorded locaKties are : Clear Creek co., up to 9,500 feet 

 (Trippe), Orchard, March 26th to 28th (Warren), Pueblo (Beckham), 

 Fort Lyon (Thome apvd Cooke), Wet Mountains up to 8,500 feet 

 (Lowe), Mesa co. (Rockwell), San Juan co. (Drew), and Fort Lewis 

 (Oilman). 



Habits. — ^The Pink-sided is perhaps the largest con- 

 stituent of the winter flocks of Juncos in El Paso co. 

 It has no characteristics distinguishing it from the 

 other species. 



Grey-headed Junco. Junco caniceps. 



A.O.U. Checklist no 569 (3rd ed., 570b)— Colorado Records— Allen 

 72, pp. 157, 163, 177 ; Aiken 72, p. 200 ; 75, p. 370 ; Trippe 74, p. 144 ; 

 Henshjw 75, p. 269 ; Ridgway 77, p. 11 ; Brewer 78, p. 72 ; Drew 81, 

 p. 90 ; 85, p. 16 ; Stone 82, p. 191 ; 84, p. 20 ; Tresz 81, p. 246 ; Allen 

 & Brewster 83, p. 190 ; Beckham 85, p. 141 ; Morrison 88, p. 74 ; 

 89, p. 38 ; Kellogg 90, p. 90 ; Lowe 94, p. 269 ; Cooke 97, pp. 105, 

 166, 215 ; McGregor 97, p. 38 ; Keyser 02, p. 74 ; Henderson 03, p. 236 ; 

 09, p. 237; Gihnan 07, p. 157; Warren 08, p. 23 ; 09, p. 16; 

 Rockwell 08, p. 172 ; 10, p. 164. 



Description. — Male — General colour above and below, slaty-grey, 

 darkest on the crown and becoming much paler, almost white , on the 

 centre of the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; a very distinct triangular 

 patch of rich chestnut occupies the middle of the back, but does not 

 extend on to the wings or rump ; wings and tail dusky, the two outer 



