JUNCO. 423 



2.98-3.10 (3.04), tail 2.80-2.86 (2.78), culmen .50-.51 (.50), tar- 

 sus .89. Hab. Higher portions of southern AUeghanies. 



5676. J. hy emails carolinensis Brewst. Carolina Junco. 

 6^ Back rusty brown or rufous, decidedly different from color of chest. 



c^. Greater wing-coverts and tertials with outer webs chiefly or entirely 

 gray, like rest of wing. 

 d}. Bill light flesh-color or purplish white, and iris dark brown, 

 or claret-color, as in J. hyemalis ; head, neck, chest, sides, 

 and upper parts except back, ash-gray, the belly rather ab- 

 ruptly white, and the back rusty or rufous ; length about 6.00- 

 6.50. Male: Wing 3.18-3.42 (3.28), tail 2.93-3.27 (2.99), culmen 

 .50-.52 (.51), tarsus .80-.87 (.82). Female: Wing 2.95-3.26 (3.08), 

 tail 2.85-3.07 (2.96), culmen .50-.52 (.51), tarsus .77-.85 (.81). 

 Eggs .80 X -59, white, dull pinkish white, or greenish white, 

 speckled (usually very minutely), chiefly on larger end, with 

 reddish brown. Hah. Eocky Mountain district, breeding from 

 Fort Bridger southward. 



569. J. caniceps (Woodh.). Gray-headed Junco. 

 d}. Bill with upper mandible blackish, lower yellowish ; iris yellow ; 

 plumage as in J. caniceps, but paler beneath, the much paler 

 ash of chest and sides fading gradually into white of belly ; 

 length about 6.25-6.60. Male : Wing 3.05-3.40 (3.25), tail 2.97- 

 3.22 (3.11), culmen .49-.53 (.51), tarsus .77-.82 (.80). Female: 

 Wing 3.10-3.20 (3.13), tail 2.93-3.10 (3.01), culmen .49-.52 (.50), 

 tarsus .77-.81 (.79). Eggs .77 X -60, plain greenish white, some- 

 times with veiy minute reddish brown sprinkling or " dusting" 

 in ring round larger end. Hah. Southern Eocky Mountains 

 (New Mexico and eastern Arizona). 



570a. J. cinereus dorsalis (Henry). Red-hacked Junco. 

 c^. Greater wing-coverts and tertials with outer webs chiefly rusty or ru- 

 fous. (Upper mandible blackish, lower yellowish, and iris yellow, 

 as in J. cinereus dorsalis.) 

 d^. Outer tail-feather with more than half of the inner web white ; 

 rump gray (rarely tinged with olive) ; back bright rusty or 

 rufous. 

 e^. Eump and top of head slate-gray, the former sometimes tinged 

 with olive ; lower parts entirely dull whitish, shaded, 

 more or less, with pale grayish anteriorly ; wing 2.77-3.20 

 (3.00), tail 2.75-3.12 (2.94), culmen .51-.53 (.52), tarsus .83- 

 .90 (.87). Hah. Highlands of Mexico. 



J. cinereus (Swains.). Mexican Junco. i 



e". Eump and top of head clear ash-gray, the former without 



olive tinge ; lower parts usually decidedly ashy anteriorly 



1 Fringilla cinerea SwAiNS., Philos. Mag. i. 1827, 435. Junco cinereus Cab., Mus. Hein. 1. 1850, 134. 



