Perching Birds Chiefly Gray, Black, or Black and White. 



GRAY-HEADED JUNCOS. 



566. White-winged Junco (Junco aikeni). L. 6.5; 

 W. 3.30. Ads. Resembling No. 567, but larger, 

 paler, wings generally with two white bars; three outer 

 tail-feathers mostly or entirely white; fourth partly 

 white. 



Range — Breeds in Wyoming and western North Dakota; winters in 

 Colorado, western Kansas, casually to Indiana and Wisconsin. 

 (Ridgw.) 



567. Slate-colored Junco (Junco hyemalis) . L. 6.2. 

 W. 3. Ad. rj\ summer. Head and back gray, the 

 crown sometimes slightly darker, the feathers usually 

 more or less tipped with brownish; breast and sides 

 gray, belly white; third outer tail-feather with white. 

 Ad. ?, summer. Similar, but brown wash stronger. 

 Ads., winter. Brown tips to feathers longer, sides 

 sometimes brownish. Notes. Calls, a sharp, kissing 

 note and a rapid chew-chew-chew\ song, a simple, twit- 

 tering trill. 



Range.— Eastern North America, breeds from northern New Eng- 

 land, northern New York, and northern Minnesota north to Labrador 

 and northwest to Alaska; and southward along the Alleghanies to 

 Pennsylvania; winters south to the Gulf States. 



567e. Carolina Junco (J. h. carolinensis). Similar 

 to No. 567, but slightly larger, VV. 3.2, the upperparts 

 and breast uniform slate-gray without a brownish wash 

 the bill horn color. 



Range. — Alleghanies from Virginia to Georgia. 



568. Pink-sided Junco (Junco mearnsi). L. 6.2. 

 Ad. tf, summer. Sides broadly brownish pink, center 

 of belly white; breast pale slate-gray, crown darker, 

 back washed with brownish. Ad. 9 *« summer. Sim- 

 ilar to the cT, but with less pink on sides, the crown 

 washed with gray. Ads. winter. Similar to summer 

 Ads., but with more brownish. 



Range.— Breeds in southern Idaho and south-central Montana; 

 winters south through Wyoming and Colorado to northern Mexico. 



567 1. Montana Junco (Junco montanus). Similar 

 to No. 568, but with less pink on the sides, the throat 

 and breast darker slate. 



Range. —Breeding from northwestern Montana and northern Idaho 

 north to northwest Territory and Alberta; in winter south to Mexico, 

 east more or less irregularly to the Mississippi, Massachusetts, and 

 Maryland. (Ridgw.) 



571. Baird Junco (Jutico bairdi). Back and sides 

 rusty cinnamon, head gray, throat and breast grayish 

 white, belly white. 



Range. — Cape Region of Lower California. 



572. Guadalupe Junco [Junco insularis). Similar 

 to mearnsi but smaller, W. 2.7, bill longer, head and 

 breast darker. 



Range.— Guadalupe Island, Lower California. 



57 11. Towsend Junco (Junco towsendi). Similar 

 to No. 567.1, but with the back grayer, the brownish 

 wash much reduced. 



Range. — San Pedro Martlr Mountains, northern Lower California. 



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