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FRINGILLIDZA: FINCHES. BUNTINGS, SPARROWS, ETC. 379 
J.h. annec’tens. (Lat. annectens, annexing ; ad, to, and necto, I join.) PINK-sIDED SNow- 
BIRD. Characters in general of J. caniceps (No. 265) ; differs by more abrupt definition of the 
white belly from the ashy breast, and pinkish sides: by so much resembling oregonus. Southern 
Rocky Mt. region, from Wyoming, and especially Colorado, to New Mexico and Arizona; 
migrating latitudinally with season, but chiefly working up and down the mountains. 
J. h. eca/niceps. (Lat. caniceps, gray-headed ; canus, gray.) GRAY-HEADED SNOW-BIRD. 
Clear ash, purest on head, paler below, and fading gradually into white on belly; interscapulars 
abruptly, definitely, chestnut or rusty-brown ; lores blackish ; bill flesh-color ; iris brown ; no 
fulvous wash on sides ; no chestnut on wings in the typical form. Rather larger than hiemalis; 
length about 7.00; wing over 3.00; tail about 3.00. The sexual and seasonal changes are not 
so well marked as in the heavily-colored hiemalis and oregonus, but aaa as far as they go. 
Very young birds are streaked, like all the rest. Rocky Mts. of the U. S., from Wyoming 
southward; Wahsatch and Uintah Mts. Five or six of the styles of - vee including J. 
hiemalis, oceur together in the mountains of Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. 
J. h. dorsa/lis. (Lat. dorsalis, pertaining to the back; dorsum, the back.) Rrp-BACKED 
SNow-BirD. Characters in general of J. caniceps; but with the bill black and yellow, as in 
cinereus. Mountains of New Mexico and Arizona. 
J. h. cine’reus. (Lat. cinereus, ashy; cinis, ashes.) CINEREOUS SNOW-BIRD. MEXICAN 
SNow-BiIRD. Like J. caniceps. . Under parts paler ash, fading sooner and more insensibly into 
white; chestnut of back intense, and spreading over the wing-coverts and inner secondaries ; 
upper mandible black ; lower yellow; iris yellow. Mexico to the U. 8. border. Mt. Graham, 
Arizona. 
SPIZEL'LA. (Ital. diminutive form of Lat. spiza, from Gr. 
oniga, a finch.) CHIPPING SPARROWS. Embracing small 
species, 5-6 inches long, with the long, broad-feathered, forked 
tail about equalling (nore or less) the rather pointed wings ; 
with no yellowish anywhere, and no streaks on the under parts 
when adult ; interscapular region distinctly streaked ; ramp plain 
(except atrigularis) ; young fully streaked. Point of wing formed 
by 2d to 4th or 5th quill; lst usually between 5th and 6th. Bill 
small, conic. Tarsus little if any longer than middle toe and Fig. 237. Chippy’s head, as 
claw; lateral toes about equal. Tail-feathers widening a little @tge aslife. (E. C.) 
to broadly oval tips. Numerous species, Eastern and Western, inhabiting shrubbery ; three 
of them familiar Eastern birds. 
Analysis of Species, 
Eastern and Western species with the crown of the adult chestnut. 
Bill black and yellow; forehead not black; two distinct white wing-bars; dark spot on breast; large: 
about6.00long ... . . . .monticola 268 
Bill and forehead black ; pee Was nae ebaupiedous: areas nae ere athens neo length under 6, 
Tail decidedly shorter than wing. . . . . . . + domestica 269, 270 
Bill brownish-red; forehead not black; Gee indistinet; Beet bate white, without spot. 
Length under6.00 . . . . ti oo Leen ane MLO TESTIS eon 
Western species, with the crown not chestnut, and streaked like the idea 
Crown divided by a median stripe, and its streaks separated from those of the back by an ashy 
interval. Tail equalto wings . . . -«. + pallida 272 
Crown not evidently divided, and Seeeed aoaaeaeni with ihe back Tail lane - . . Oreweri 212 
Western species, with the crown of the adult dark ash. Face and throat black. Tail decidedly longer 
ppv pk ee tieet!., OMT. AR Shei IE: SRT anges epee carte debra fn ayes )) 58.0 COMOGULATIS W274. 
S. monti/cola. (Lat. monticola, inhabiting mountains; mons, montis, a mountain; colo, I 
dwell; incola, an inhabitant.) TREE SPARROW. WINTER Cutr- -BIRD. Bill black above, 
eae below ; legs brown; toes black. No black on forehead ; crown chestnut (in winter 
specimens the feathers usually skirted with gray), bordered by a grayish-white superciliary and 
loral line; a postocular chestnut stripe over auriculars, and some vague chestnut marks on 
