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browner on the back ; head, neck, and chest slate-grayish, paler 

 on throat and chost, darker on crown; lores black. Male: 

 TVing 2.70-2.85 (2.75), tail 2.50-2.G0 (2.56), culmen .55-.58 (.58), 

 tarsus .80-.85 (.84), middle too .55-.60 (.56). Female: Wing 

 2.50-2.65 (2.57), tail 2.30-2.45 (2.40), tarsus .80-.85 (.81), middle 

 too .55-.60 (.56). Efjgs .80 X -59, dull white, speckled, chiefly 

 round larger end, with reddish brown. Hah. Guadalupe Island, 

 Lower California... 572. J. insularis Eidqw. Guadalupe Junco. 

 6'. Sides ochraceous, or cinnamon-butf. Adult (sexes alike') : Entire hack, scapu- 

 lars, and wing coverts nearly uniform cinnamon-brown (duller in female) ; 

 sides and top of head and neck, with hind-neck, ash-gray, the latter 

 tinged with brown ; chin, throat, and chest grayish white, the latter 

 sometimes tinged with fulvous ; upper mandible black, lower bright 

 j-ellow (in life) ; iris bright yellow ; wing 2.60-2.80, tail 2.60-2.80, cul- 

 men .45-.50, tarsus .80, middle toe .55. H<ib. Mountains of southern 

 Lower California 571. J. bairdi Belding. Baird's Junco. 



Ge.nus AMPHISPIZA Coues. (Page 385, pi. CIX., figs. 6, 7.) 



Species. 



a'. A continuous white superciliary stripe. (Above plain grayish brown, the back 

 very indistinctly streaked with darker in 3'oung only.) 



Adult (sexes alike) : Lores, chin, throat, and chest uniform black ; a malar 

 stripe (reaching not quite to bill), sides of chest, and belly, white; sides 

 grayish, becoming browner on flanks. Young: No distinct i)lack mark- 

 ings on bead or neck ; chin and throat white, often more or less clouded 

 or flecked with grayish, the chest more distinctly marked with the 

 same; wing-covcrts and tertials light brown. Length 5.00-5.75, wing 

 about 2.60-2.75, tail 2.65-2.90. jy'est in bushes (•' sage" bushes, and 

 other desert shrubs), composed of fine thin shreds of bark, etc. Eggs 

 .71 X .54, plain greenish or bluish white. Sab. Southwestern United 

 States (from Texas to Lower California) and contiguous parts of 

 Mexico, north, in the interior, to Nevada, Utah, and western Colorado. 

 573. A. bilineata (Cass.). Black-throated Sparrow, 

 a'. A white supraloral spot, but no superciliarj' stripe. 



fc'. No streaks on sides ; wing with two white bands or else sides deep slate-gray, 

 c'. Lesser wing-coverts grayish or blackish. 



d'. Rump cinnamon-rufous ; lesser wing-coverts blackish. Adult: Up- 

 per part of throat black, the point of the chin white; fore-neck 

 and lower part of throat uniform ash-gray; top of head gray- 

 ish, streaked with black ; a broad white malar stripe ; lores 

 and beneath eyes black ; sides and under tail-coverts light 

 oehraccous-cinnamon ; belly white ; back brownish, broadly 

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