FIUNGILLIDjE : FINCHES, BUNTINGS, SPARROWS, ETC. 379 



J. h. annec'tens. (Lat. annectens, annexing ; ad, to, and necto, I join.) Pink-sided Snow- 



BIUD. Characters in general of J. canieeps (No. 265) ; differs by more abrupt definition of the 



white belly fi-oni the ashy breast, and })inkish sides : by so much resembling oregonus. Soutliern 



Rocky Mt. region, from Wyoming, and especially Colorado, to New Mexico and Arizona ; 



migrating latitudinally \vith season, but chietly working up and down the mountains. 



J. h. ca'niceps. (Lat. canieeps, gray-headed ; canus, gray.) Gray-heabed Snow-iurd. 



Clear ash, purest on head, paler below, and fading gradually into wliite on belly; interscapulars 



abruptly, definitely, chestnut or rusty-brown ; lores blackish j bill fiesh-color ; iris brown ; no 



fulvous wash on sides ; no chestnut on wings in the typical form. Rather larger than hiemalis; 



length about 7.00 ; wing over 3.00 ; tail about 3.00. The sexual and seasonal changes are not 



so well marked as in the heavily-colored hiemalis and oregonus, but parallel as far as they go. 



Very young birds are streaked, like aU the rest. Rocky Mts. of the U. S., from Wyoming 



southward ; Wahsatch and Uintah Mts. Five or six of the styles of Junco, including ./. 



hiemalis, occur together in the mountains of Colorado, New Mexico, and Ariz(jna. 



J. h. dorsa'lis. (Lat. dorsalis, pertaining to the back ; dorsum, the back.) Red-backed 



Snow-bird. Characters in general of J. canieeps; but with the bill black and yellow, as in 



cinereus. Mountains of New Mexico and Arizona. 



J. h. cine'reus. (Lat. cinereus, ashy; cinis, ashes.) Cinereous Snow-bird. Mexican 



Snow-bird. Like J. canieeps. Under parts paler ash, fading sooner and more insensibly into 



white ; chestnut of back intense, and spreading over the wing-coverts and inner secondaries ; 



upper mandible black; lower yellow; iris yellow. Mexico to the U. S. border. Mt. Graham, 



Arizona. 



SPIZEL'LA. (Ital. diminutive form of Lat. spiza, from Gr. 



a-ni^a, a finch.) Chipping Sparrows. Embracing small 



species, 5-6 inches long, with the long, broad-feathered, forked 



tail about equalling (more or less) the rather pointed wings ; 



with no yellowish anywhere, and no streaks on the under parts 



ichen adult; interscapular region distinctly streaked ; rump plain 



(except atrigularis) ; young fully streaked. Point of wing formed 



by 2d to 4th or 5th quill ; 1st usually between 5th and 6th. BiU 



small, conic. Tarsus little if any longer than middle toe and pro. 237. - Chippy's head, na 



claw ; lateral toes about equal. Tail-feathers widening a little large as life. (E. C.) 



to broadly oval tips. Numerous species, Eastern and Western, inhabiting shrubbery ; three 



of them familiar Eastern birds. 



Analysis of Species. 

 Eastern and Western species with the crown of the adult chestnut. 



Bill black and yellow; forehead not black; two distinct white wing-bars; dark spot on breast; large: 



about 6.00 long monticola 268 



Bill and forehead black ; wing-bars not conspicuous ; breast ashy-white, without spot ; length under 6. 



Tail decidedly shorter than wing domestica 269. 270 



Bill brownish-red; forehead not black; wing-bars indistinct; breast buffy white, without spot. 



Length under 6 00 agrestis 271 



Western species, with the crown not chestnut, and streaked like the back. 



Crown divided by a median stripe, and its streaks separated from those of the back by an ashy 



interval. Tail equal to wings pallida 272 



Crown not evidently divided, and streaked continuously with the back. Tall longer. . . . breweri 272 

 Western species, with the crown of the adult dark ash. Face and throat black. Tail decidedly longer 



than wing atrigularis 274 



S. monti'cola. (Lat. monticola. inhabiting mountains ; mons, montis, a mountain ; colo, I 

 dwell ; incola, an inhabitant.) Tree Sparrow. Winter Chip-bird. Bill black above, 

 yellow below ; legs brown ; toes black. No black on forehead ; crown chestnut (in winter 

 specimens the feathers usually skirted with gray), bordered by a grayish-white superciliary and 

 loral line ; a postocular chestnut stripe over auriculars, and some vague chestnut marks on 



