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ZOOLOGY— BIKDS. 



of the breeding' season a complete and general diffusion of this species over 

 the country to the southward of its summer habitat. It winters in great 

 numbers in Southern Utah, and in Colorado well up into the middle of the 

 Territory ; though I\Ir. Aiken informs me that in El Paso County compara- 

 tively few of this species remain during the winter, the greater proportion 

 passing on farther to the south. As a winter resident in Arizona and New 

 Mexico, it is by far the most numerously rei)resented of the genus, and is 

 found everywhere, low down in the mountains, in the foot hills, and along 

 the sti'eams of the valleys and plains. I have never found it in the mount- 

 ains of tliis region in summer, and am quite positive that none remain here 

 to breed. 



JUNCO OKEGONDS (Towns.), var. ANNECTENS, Bd. 

 Pink-sided Snowbird. 



I'LATE VIII. 



Junco anncctcnn, Bd., MSS.-^Cooper, Bird.s Cal., i, 1870, 504. 



Junco orcgonux var. anncctenii, HENSHAW, Kep. Oni. Specs., 187.'?, Wheeler's Exped., 



1874, iir>. 

 Junco orcgonux, Meukiam, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1871', (kSI (Idaho; Wvoiiiiiiji), 



.speciiiieiis prove on exaininatioii to be typical of this race). 



Tliis varietv occurs in Colorado, New Mexico, and Aiizoiia only as a 

 winter visitant; its distribution in summer being quite northern. It was 



