THE OREGON JUNCO. 119 



(152.4-165.1 ) : wing 3.07 (7S1: tail 2.80 (71.1); bill .49 (12.5). Female 

 averages slightly smaller than male. 



Recognition Marks. — Sparrow size: white lateral tail-feathers; hood .\7(7/v 

 as comjiared with J . orcgantis anil 7. o. shufcldti. 



Nesting. — Not known to breed in Washington. Nest and ri/t/.s" as next. 



General Range. — North America, chiefly east of the Rocky .Mountains, 

 breeding in the hilly portions of the Xorthern 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 \\\-stern 

 States to California, Arizona, etc. 



Range in Washington. — Casual during migrations ; ma\- winter rarelv in 

 company witli J. orcyanus. 



Authorities. — Xot j^rci'iously puhlislicd : W . T. Shaw in cpist. Dec. I. 1908. 

 J. 11. r>ciwles in cpist. Jan. ly, Kjoy. 



Specimens. — P". 



THIS the familiar Simw-bird of the East is occasionally seen west of 

 the R(Kky Mountains in winter and during migrations, specimens having 

 been taken at Sumas, B. C, by Mr. Allan Brooks, and at Corvallis, Oregon, 

 by Mr. A. R. Wootlcock, in addition to the one reported from Pullman. It 

 is not impossible that the bird is tnore common than we have been sujiposing, 

 because, when found, it appears to be mingling freely with flocks of alliei! 

 species, quite unaware of the fact that such actions are of interest to inquisi- 

 tive bird-men. 



No. 47. 



OREGON JUNCO. 



.\. O. U. \o. 567a. Junco oreganus (Towns.). 



Synonyms. — ^"Orf.G.w S-N'ow-fixcii." Wkster.n' Snow-bird. Orkgox 

 SNf)Vv-niRD. 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 w-arm reddish brown (nearly walnut brown) ; rump, upper tail-coverts 

 and middle and greater wing-coverts slaty gray or ashv gray, sometimes glossed 

 with olivaceous; wings and tail dusky, edged with ashy; th© outermost rectrix 

 wholly and the second chiefly touched with white, the third pair touched with 

 white near tij); sides of breast, sides and flanks strongly washed with jMnkish 

 brown (viiiaccous cinnamon); remaining underparts (below chest) white. I'.ill 

 pinkish white with dusky tij) ; iris claret red. Adult female: Head and neck 

 all aroimd and chest scarcely contrasting in color with upperparts hut changing 

 from warm brown (bister) above to dull slaty overlaid with lirowuisli 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. 



