PASSEEBS— FEINGILLIDAE— JUNCO CINEEEUS. 



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strongest terms of bird language. This nest was merely a collection of 

 coarse grasses and di-ied stalks of weeds, disposed in a circular form, and 

 lined with finer material of the same. It contained four eggs, which a few 

 more days would have seen hatched. Of these, two appear to be unspotted, 

 and are a pale greenish-white throughout. A third has a few very minute 

 brownish-red spots scattered in-egularly over the surface, though, at first 

 sight, it appears immaculate. The fourth has faint, obsolete frecklings of 

 the same color interspersed over the whole surface, and confluent at the 

 larger end in a ring. 



Dimensions, 0.84 by 0.62 ; 0.77-0.63. 



A large series collected in the White Mountains in July, 1874, agree 

 well in the constancy of their markings. 



Bill brownish black above, below whitish ; legs and feet brown ; iris 

 hazel. 



JUNCO CINEEEUS (Swains.). 



Mexican Snowbird. 



Plate X. 



Fringilla cinerea, Swains., Syn., Birds Mex., in Pbil. Mag., i, 1827, 435. 

 Jiinco cinereus, Caban., Mus. Hein., 1850, 134.— Bd., Birds N. A., 1858, 465. 



Sp. char.— Above plumbeous ash. A broad patch of rufous chestnut across the inter 

 scapular region, a variable ainoinit of which extends on to the coverts andinner seconda- 

 ries. Under parts pale ash, becoaiirig ashy white on the middle of the abdomen Sides 

 and flanks tinged fiiintly with ashy buown. Lores abruptly black, shading into dusky 

 about the orbital region. Outer tail feather only usually white; second with varying 



