PINK-SIDED OREGON JUNCO 1071 



Breeding range. — The Sbufeldt's Oregon junco breeds from south- 

 western British Columbia (western slopes of coast ranges; intergrades 

 with J. 0. oreganus on Vancouver Island) south, from the forests of 

 the Cascade Range to the coast, through western Washington and 

 western Oregon (to latitude 43° N. ; intergrades with J. o. thurberi 

 in Crater Lake area and the Rogue River Basin). 



Winter range. — Winters at low elevations throughout the breeding 

 range, south through California (south to Witch Creek, chiefly on 

 coastal drainages), and southeast, sparsely, through eastern Washing- 

 ton, northern Idaho (Fort Sherman), Utah, and Colorado (Wray; 

 northwest Baca County) to southern Arizona (Huachuca Mountains), 

 southern New Mexico (Ancho, Las Cruces), central Chihuahua 

 (Chihuahua), and western Texas (Brewster County). 



Thurber's Oregon Junco (/. o. thurberi) 



Range. — Southern Oregon south to northern Baja California. 



Breeding range. — The Thurber's Oregon junco breeds from southern 

 Oregon (east to Hart Mountain) south through northern coastal 

 California (Sonoma and Napa counties; intergrades with J. o. pinosus 

 in Marin County) and the interior mountains of California to Santa 

 Barbara and San Diego counties (Laguna Mountains), and east to 

 extreme west central Nevada (Galena Creek). (Hybridizes occasion- 

 ally with J. c. caniceps in eastern Mono, Inyo, and San Bernardino 

 counties, California, and along the southwestern border of Nevada.) 



Winter range. — Winters at low elevations on or near the breeding 

 grounds north to Rogue River, Oregon, and south throughout coastal, 

 southern, and insular California to northern Baja California (latitude 

 30° N.); sparsely east to northern Sonora (Saric), eastern Arizona 

 (Flagstaff, Fort Apache, Chiricahua Mountains), and southwestern 

 New Mexico (Big Burro Mountains). 



JUNCO OREGANUS MEARNSI Ridgway 



Pink-sided Oregon Junco 

 Contributed by James H. Phelps, Jr. 



Habits 



Yellowstone National Park is a vast volcanic plateau, broken here 

 and there by meadows, streams or lakes, and forested for the most 

 part with lodgepole pine {Pinus contorta). The world famous geysers 

 and related scenic phenomona sprinkle the landscape and attract 

 most of the attention, but a naturalist soon becomes aware of the 

 abundant bird and animal life here, unafraid of man. Of course one 



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