THE OREGON JUNCO. 119 
(152.4-165.1); wing 3.07 (78); tail 280 (71.1); bill .49 (12.5). Female 
averages slightly smaller than male. 
Recognition Marks.—Sparrow size; white lateral tail-feathers ; hood slaty 
as compared with J. oreganus and J. o. shufeldti. 
Nesting.—Not known to breed in Washington. Nest and eggs as next. 
General Range.—North America, chiefly east of the Rocky Mountains, 
breeding in the hilly portions of the Northern States (east of the Rockies) north 
to the Arctic Coast and west to the valleys of the Yukon and Kowak Rivers, 
Alaska; south in winter as far as the Gulf States and sparingly over the Western 
States to California, Arizona, etc. 
Range in Washington.—Casual during migrations; may winter rarely in 
company with J. oreganus: 
Authorities.—N ot previously published: \V.'T. Shaw in epist. Dec. 1, 1908. 
J. H. Bowles in epist. Jan. 19, 1909. 
Specimens.—P'. 
THIS the familiar Snow-bird of the East is occasionally seen west of 
the Rocky Mountains in winter and during migrations, specimens haying 
been taken at Sumas, B. C., by Mr. Allan Brooks, and at Corvallis, Oregon, 
by Mr. A. R. Woodcock, in addition to the one reported from Pullman. It 
is not impossible that the bird is more common than we have been supposing, 
because, when found, it appears to be mingling freely with flocks of allied 
species, quite unaware of the fact that such actions are of interest to inquisi- 
tive bird-men. 
No. 47. 
OREGON JUNCO. 
A. O. U. No. 567a. Junco oreganus (‘Towns.). 
Synonyms.—‘OrEcGAN SNow-FINCH.” WESTERN SNOW-BIRD. OREGON 
SNow-prrp. ‘TOWNSEND'S JUNCO. 
Description.—Adult male: Head and neck all around and chest (abruptly 
defined along convex posterior edge) sooty black; back and scapulars and edging 
of tertials warm reddish brown (nearly walnut brown) ; rump, upper tail-coverts 
and middle and greater wing-coverts slaty gray or ashy gray, sometimes glossed 
with olivaceous; wings and tail dusky, edged with ashy; the outermost rectrix 
wholly and the second chiefly touched with white, the third pair touched with 
white near tip; sides of breast, sides and flanks strongly washed with pinkish 
brown (vinaceous cinnamon); remaining underparts (below chest) white. Bill 
pinkish white with dusky tip; iris claret red. Adult female: Head and neck 
all around and chest scarcely contrasting in color with upperparts but changing 
from warm brown (bister) above to dull slaty overlaid with brownish on throat 
and chest; brown of back (bister or dull sepia) without reddish tinge; white on 
second rectrix not so extensive as in male; wash of sides duller, not so vinaceous. 
