650 FRINGILIJD.2E. 



The three outer tail-feathers are white, and the fourth has a mark 

 of white on the inner web. 



Hab. Colorado, north to the Black Hills, where it breeds {A. 0. 

 U. Check-list, I. c). 



a. $ ad. sk. El Paso county, Colorado, Feb. 24, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 1874 (C. E. Aiken). [P.]. 



3. Junco oregonus. 



Fringilla oregona, Towns. Proc. Philad. Acad. vii. p. 188 (1837) ; 



Audub. B. Amer. pi. 398 ; id. Orn. Bioyr. v. p. 68 (1839) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. ii. p. 372 (1849). 

 Struthus oregonus, Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. fy N. Amer. p. 31 (1838) ; 



id. Consp. i. p. 475 (1850) ; Woodh. in Sityr. Rep. Zuni fy Color. 



R. p. 83 (1854). 

 Nipbsea oregona, Aud. Syn. p. 107 (1839) ; id. B. Amer. iii. p. 91, 



pi. 168 (1841) ; Cab. Mas. Hein. Th. i. p. 134 (1850). 

 Fringilla hudsonia {nee Forst.), Licht. Abhandl, k. Akad. Berlin, 



1839, p. 424. 

 Fringilla atrata, Brandt, Icon. Rosso-Asiat. pi. 2. fig. 8. 

 Junco oregonus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 7 ; Baird, B. N. Amer. 



p. 466 (1858) ; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 115 (1862) ; Blakist. Ibis, 



1863, p. 76 ; Coues, Proc. Philad. Acad. p. 85 ( 1866) ; Baird, Ibis, 



1867, p. 270 ; Broivn, Ibis, 1868, p. 422 ; Ball fy Bann. Tram. 



Chicayo Acad. i. p. 284 (1869); Cooper, B. Calif, p. 199 (1870); 



Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 93, no. 7369 (1870) ; Finsch, Abhandl. not. 



Ver. Bremen, 1872, p. 53; Allen, Bidl. Mus. Comp. Zool. iii. 



pp. 118, 167, 177 (1872) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 141 (1872) ; 



Baird, Breiuer, $ Ridyw. Hist. N Amer. B. i. p. 584, pi. 26. fig. 2 



(1874); Coues, B. N.-West, p. 142 (1874); Hensh. Rep. Zool. 



Erpl. WOth Merid. p. 267 (1875) ; Be/diny, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



i. p. 416 (1879) ; Cooper, op. cit. ii. p. 248 (1880) ; Ridyw. op. cit. 



iii. p. 179 (1881) ; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 232 (1882) ; Bean, 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 152 (1882) ; Drew, Auk, ii. p. 16 



(1885) ; Batchelder, t. c. p. 123 ; Beckh. t. c. p. 141 ; Scott, t. c. 



p. 174 ; Hensh. Auk, iii. p. 74 (1886). 

 Junco liiemalis, var. oregonus, Ridyw. Amer. Nat. vii. p. 613 (1873). 

 Junco henialis oregonus, Coues, Check-l. N. Amer. B. p. 56 (1882) ; 



id. Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 378 (1884) ; A. O. U. Check-list 



N. Amer. B. p. 274 (1886); Anthony, Auk, iii. p. 169 (1886); 



Everm. t. c. p. 182 ; Seton, t. c. p. 324. 



Adult male. General colour above rufous chocolate-brown, the 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dull ashy ; lesser wing- 

 eoverts dark ashy grey ; median and greater coverts dusky or blackish 

 brown, edged with lighter brown, paler at the ends; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills blackish, edged with ashy, inclining to 

 white on the first primary, the secondaries externally ruf'ous- 

 browu, paler at the end of the outer web ; tail-feathers dark ashy 

 blackish, the two outer ones entirely white, excepting the extreme 

 base, which is blackish ; the third feather with a longitudinal 

 wedge-shaped mark of white on the inner web ; crown of head 

 black, abruptly defined on the hind neck ; lores, sides of face, ear- 

 coverts, cheeks, throat, sides of neck, and fore neck black, sharply 

 defined on the latter ; chest and remainder of under surface white ; 



