654 ERINGILLrD-ffi. 



long wedge-shaped mark of white on the inner web, the outermost 

 feather almost entirely white, except an oblique blackish mark at 

 the base of the inner web, and a blackish edging to the end of the 

 outer web : crown of head and hind neck ashy grey ; lores and 

 feathers round eye blackish ; extreme base of chin dusky ; sides of 

 face, ear-coverts, and sides of neck dark ashy grey ; cheeks, throat, 

 and fore neck lighter ashy, shading off paler on the breast towards 

 the abdomen, which is whitish ; sides of body and flanks light 

 ashy ; thighs ashy ; under tail-coverts white with ashy bases ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries light ashy, the median wing- 

 coverts white at the ends ; quills below dusky, ashy isabelline along 

 the inner edge. Total length 5 - 8 inches, culmen 045, wing 3*1, 

 tail 2-85, tarsus 08. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 5-8 inches, 

 culmen 05, wing 34, tail 2-75, tarsus 0-8. 



The winter plumage of the adults only differs from the breeding- 

 plumage in being shaded with brown, with which all the feathers 

 are edged. 



Young. Eecalls the colour of the adults, but is everywhere 

 spotted with triangular black markings at the end of the feathers, 

 both above and below ; the wing-coverts and inner secondaries are 

 edged with pale fulvous at the end. 



Bab. Eastern mountain-districts of Mexico (from the Sierra 

 Madre of Chihuahua to the high districts of Yera Cruz) (teste 

 Ridgway, I. c). 



a. Ad. sk. Mexico. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk. Mexico. J. Gould, Esq. 



(/, e. <5 2 a d- sk. Ciudad Durango, June 17 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 (A. Forrer). 



f. Juv. sk. Ciudad Durango, July 4 (A. Salviu-Godman Coll. 



Forrer). 



g. Ad. sk. Jalapa (De Oca). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 h. § juv. sk. Jalapa (De Oca). Sclater Coll. 



i. S ad. sk. Popocatepetl (De Saussure). Sclater Coll. 



k. d 1 ad. sk. S. Mexico. A. Salle [C.]. 



8. Junco caniceps. 



Stiuthus caniceps, Wood//. Tvoc. Philad, Acad. 1852, p. 202; id. 

 in Sitgr. Hep. Ziini Sf Color. JR. p. 83, pi. 3 (1853). 



Junco cancieps, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 468, pi. 72. fig. 1 (1858); 

 Coves, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1866, p. 85; Cooper, B. Calif, p. 201 

 (1870) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 93, no. 7370 (1870) ; Allen, Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool. iii.p. 177(1872); Baird, Brewer, & Ridgw. Hist. 

 N. Amer. B. i. p. 587, pi. 26. fig. 3 (1874) ; Ridgw. Proc. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. iii. p. 179 (1881) ; Drew, Auk, ii. p. 16 (1885) ; Batch- 

 elder, t. c. p. 123 ; Beekh. t. c. p. 141 ; Hensh. Auk, iii. p. 74 (1886) ; 

 A. O. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 275 (1886). 



Junco einereus, var. caniceps, Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 141 (1872) ; 

 id. B. N- West, p. 143 (1874) ; Hensh. Bep. Zool. Expl. 100th Merid. 

 p. 269 (1875). 



Junco hiemalis, var. caniceps, Ridgw. Amer. Nat. vii. p. 613 (1873). 



