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feathers blackish brown, edged with ashy; outer feather white, 

 penultimate one white, excepting a brown edging to the end of the 

 outer web, the third one with a long wedge-shaped mark of white 

 along the inner web ; crown of head and hind neck dark ashy grey ; 

 lores and eyelid blackish ; ear-coverts, sides of face, and under 

 surface of the body ashy grey, becoming paler and more ashy 

 whitish on the lower breast and abdomen ; sides of body and flanks 

 pale ashy; thighs ashy; under tail-coverts white; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries pale ashy, with whitish edges ; quills below 

 dusky, ashy whitish along the inner edge : " bill brownish black 

 above, below whitish ; legs and feet brown ; iris hazel" (Henshaw). 

 Total length 5-6 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3-25, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-8. 

 Hub. Mountains of New Mexico and Eastern Arizona (Ridgway, 

 I. c). 



a. Ad. sk. Fort Bridger, Utah, July 1872 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 (E. W. Nelson). 



11. Junco alticola. 



J unco alticola, Salvin, P.Z.S. 1863, p. 189; id. Uw, 1866, p. 193; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 93, no. 7373 (1870) ; Scl. fy Salv. Nomencl. 



Av. Neotr. p. 32 (1873) ; Salvin fy Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, 



i. p. 374, tab. xxvi. fig. 1 (1886). 

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

 unco cinereus, var. alticola, Ridgw. in Baird, Brewer, Sf Ridgiu. Hist. 



N. Amer. B. p. 580 (1874). 



Adult (type of species). General colour above dull rufous-brown, 

 the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts more earthy brown, as 

 also the scapulars ; lesser and median coverts dark ashy, the latter 

 washed with brown ; greater coverts dark chestnut ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown, edged with ashy, more 

 hoary on the outer primaries, browner on the secondaries, the inner- 

 most of which are externally chestnut ; tail-feathers blackish, edged 

 with brown, the two outer ones with a large wedge-shaped mark of 

 white, more extended on the outer feather ; crown of head and 

 hind neck dark slaty grey ; lores and feathers round eye blackish ; 

 sides of face, ear-coverts, as well as the sides of neck, dark slaty 

 grey ; cheeks, throat, and breast ashy grey, becoming paler on the 

 latter, gradually towards the abdomen, which is whitish; sides of 

 body and flanks brown ; thighs dark slaty grey ; under tail-coverts 

 pale sandy buff, with dull ashy centres ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries ashy, with whitish edges ; near the edge of the wing a 

 dusky patch ; quills below dusky, ashy isabelline along the inner 

 edge. Total length 6 - 3 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3"15, tail 2-75, 

 tarsus 0*95. 



The sexes are alike in colour, and of about the same size. A 

 male and female both have the wing 3'05 inches. 



Young. Similar to the adults, but with all the colours duller 

 above and paler below, the feathers closely mottled with triangular 

 blackish spots at the ends. 



