j-Jj Loomis on Junco pinosus. J. 7 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW JUNCO FROM CALI- 

 FORNIA. 



BY LEVERETT M. LOOMIS. 



Junco pinosus, new species. Point Pinos Junco. 



Sp. Char. — Most nearly like J. h. thnrberi, but throat, jugulum, and 

 fore breast slate-gray, varying to dark slate-gray, and upper portions of 

 head and neck slate-gray, varying to blackish slate; bill averaging broader 

 and longer. 



$ ad. (No. 278, museum of Leland Stanford Junior University, vicinity 

 of Monterey, Cala., July 4, 1892; Leverett M. Loomis). Upper part of 

 head and neck blackish slate, changing, on sides of head and neck, to 

 slate-gray on throat, jugulum, and fore breast; this dark color being 

 abruptly defined against the colors of the body; interscapulars and scapu- 

 lars pale chestnut; rump gray, tinged with chestnut; posterior part of 

 breast, abdomen, and lower tail-coverts white; sides faintly washed with 

 vinaceous-buff ; two outer rectrices wholly white, the third partially white, 

 the others dark brown; wings dark brown, more or less edged with 

 chestnut and whitish. 



This type specimen is in rather worn plumage. Of three other 

 males (all taken during the first two weeks of July) one is almost 

 an exact counterpart of the specimen described, the other two 

 represent a darker and lighter phase in the shade of the slate-gray 

 of the fore-neck and breast and in the blackish slate and dark slate- 

 gray of the upper part of the head and neck. 



$ ad. (No. 2S1, museum of Leland Stanford Junior University, vicinity 

 of Monterey, Cala., July 4, 1892; Leverett M. Loomis). Similar to the 

 male, though smaller, with color of anterior parts grayer, especially the 

 throat and sides of head. The chestnut of the back is deeper than in any 

 of the males. This is also true in the only other female I preserved. 

 Except on the throat the second female is darker anteriorly than the palest 

 male; the dimensions of the male, however, are considerably greater. 



$, 9 hornot. (Description based upon two males and two females 

 taken during the first fortnight of July). Above pale chestnut, more or 

 less slightly tinged with slaty on crown, narrowly streaked with blackish, 

 the streaks predominating on top of head ; below white, tinged in a vary- 

 ing degree with buffish, and streaked, except medially, with dusky, thickly 

 on breast and jugulum and more or less sparsely on throat and sides ; sides 

 of head with colors and markings of upper and lower parts variously 

 blended; wings blackish, broadly edged on inner secondaries and greater 

 coverts with pale chestnut ; middle coverts less broadly edged and with 

 greater coverts tipped with buffish, forming two inconspicuous bars; 

 primaries edged with whitish, shading into the chestnut of secondaries; 

 inner rectrices blackish, margined with pale chestnut; outer one wholly 

 white, second chiefly white, third with or without a white spot. 



