FRINGILLIDA, FINCHES, ETC.—GEN. 72. 141 
streaks. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. Cass., Ill. 150, pl. 
POPE Ds els) COOPs,2038. 6. «  .e 2 Bo eeBIBINE ATA, 
Bell’s Finch. No definite black about eae and edge of wing slightly 
yellowish. Forchead, line over eye and edges of eyelids, inconspicuously 
white. Below white, more or less tinged with pale brownish, the sides with 
slight sparse streaks that anteriorly become aggregated into rather vague 
maxillary stripes cutting off from the white throat a whitish line that runs 
from the corner of the bill; lores and circumocular region dusky. Above 
grayish-brown, ashier on head, the crown and back with small sparse sharp 
black streaks ; wing coverts and inner quills with much fulvous edging ; tail 
black with slight pale edgings, the outer web of the outer feather simply 
whitish. About 6 long; wing and tail 8. Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and 
3D? 
California. Bp., 470; Exxror, pl. 14; Coop., 204. . . . . BELLI. 
72. Genus JUNCO Wagler. 
*.* Unspotted, unstreaked, the colors in large definite areas; 2-3 outer tail 
feathers white ; bill flesh-colored. Length, 6-7; wing and tail about 3. 
Snowbird. Blackish-ash, below abruptly pure white from the breast. In 
the 9, and in fact in most fall and winter specimens, the upper parts have ¢ 
more grayish, or even a decidedly brownish cast, and the inner quills are 
edged with pale bay. One of our most abundant and familiar sparrows, in 
flocks, from October to April; retires to high latitudes and mountains, to 
breed. Chiefly Eastern; but also found in Alaska (Dall), Washington 
Territory (Suckley) and Arizona (Coues). A western variety has the mid- 
dle and greater wing coverts tipped with white, forming two conspicuous 
Crossbars. Wims., ti, 1295 pl. 16, f. 6; Nurr.,.1, 491; Aup., iii, 88, 
Meee SM sy Ds 468. es e's seas oh) /eu so DEL EMALISE 
Oregon Snowbird. Head and Sank ail round, and Drtants black; middle 
of back dull reddish-brown, and wings much edged with the same; below 
from the breast abruptly white, tinged on the sides with pale reddish-brown. 
In the 9 and young the black is obscured by brownish, but the species may 
always be distinguished by an evident contrast in color between the inter- 
scapulars and head, and the fulvous wash on the sides. Rocky Mountains 
to the Pacific; as abundant there as hyemalis is with us. <Avp., ili. 91, 
pl tos; Bp., 466; Coop, 199. . .  . ee ee ae COREGONUDS. 
Cinereous Snowbird. Clear grayish- he pane rather gradually into 
white on belly ; interscapulars abruptly, definitely, chestnut or rusty-brown ; 
lores blackish; no fulvous wash on sides; no chestnut on wings. Rocky 
Mountains, U. S., and southward. Bop., 467, 468; Coor., 201; Cougs, 
roe. Phila. Acad. 1866,50. . . . . . +. CINEREUS var. CANICEPS. 
Oxzs. The true cinereus, a Mexican bird, has the wing coverts edged with rusty 
like the back, the bill black and yellow. Juwnco dorsalis Henry, Proc. Phila. Acad. 
1858, 117, is caniceps approaching cinerews— perhaps a hybrid. J. annectens Bo., in 
Coor., 564, based on specimens I procured in Arizona, is intermediate between 
oregonus and caniceps—in all probability a hybrid. See Cours, Proc. Acad. 
