[598] BIRDS OF OREGON 



from eye to hind neck; hind neck deep rufous; back streaked black, brown, buffy, and 

 whitish; wings dusky, with brown and whitish edgings; tail chiefly blackish 

 brown. Adult male in winter: black area and rufous nape patch greatly restricted, 

 and more or less obscured by white or brownish tips to feathers; sides of head mainly 

 light brownish. Adult female in summer: like winter male but smaller, markings 

 sharper, black of chest more restricted, and hind neck streaked with blackish. 

 Adult female in winter: similar to summer female, but browner and less sharply 

 streaked above; hind neck often without trace of rufous; under parts dingy white, 

 chest markings only suggested. Young: upper parts tawny buff, broadly streaked 

 with black except for wings and tail; under parts pale buffy, throat, chest, and sides 

 broadly streaked with black. Male: length (skins) 5-75~6-55> wing 3.59-3.92., tail 

 1.30-1.68, bill .41-. 49. Female: length (skins) 5.34-6.15, wing 3.39-3.67, tail 

 1.19-1.48, bill .40-. 47." (Bailey) Nest: A ground nest of dried grasses and feathers. 

 Eggs: 3 to 6, white, speckled with brown. 



DISTRIBUTION. General: Breeds in northern Alaska, including islands of Bering Sea, 

 and east to mouth of Mackenzie River. Winters south to Oregon, Nevada, Colo- 

 rado, and Kansas. In Oregon: Rare winter straggler. 



THE ALASKA LONGSPUR must be listed as one of the winter visitors that 

 reaches Oregon so infrequently as to become a rare straggler. Bendire 

 (Brewer 1875) reported one specimen taken near Camp Harney, December 

 14, 1874, an d stated later (Bendire 1877) tnat a ^ ew wintered at Camp 

 Harney. Woodcock (1902.) quoted Bendire's record but could add nothing 

 to it. Shelton (1917) recorded an immature male taken on the coast near 

 Siltcoos Lake, October 15, 1915, by Overton Dowell, Jr. certainly an 

 unusual record and Jewett (i92.6a) listed a single specimen taken at 

 Mikkalo, Gilliam County, December 2.8, 192.4, by R. T. Jackson and 

 presented to him in the flesh. We are unable to add any more data regard- 

 ing this species as an Oregon bird, but we do suggest that observers in 

 the open country east of the Cascades keep a sharp lookout for it with 

 the purpose of adding to our knowledge of its distribution and regularity 

 of occurrence. 



Eastern Snow Bunting: 



Plectrophenax nivalis nivalis (Linnaeus) 



DESCRIPTION. "Under mandible thicker than upper, gonys very short, nostrils con- 

 cealed by plumules; wing nearly five times as long as tarsus; tail emarginate, about 

 two-thirds hidden by coverts; hind claw about as long as its toe, curved. Adult 

 male in summer: white, with black on bill, middle of back, scapulars, greater part of 

 primaries, and four to six middle tail feathers. Adult male in winter: washed with 

 rusty on upper parts, sides of head, and chest; bill yellow, with dusky tip. Adult 

 female in summer: upper parts broadly streaked with black; wing and tail with black 

 of male replaced by blackish brown; wing with much less white. Adult female in 

 winter: like summer female, but upper parts more or Jess stained with rusty brown 

 and feathers of back more edged with buffy. Young: under parts dull whitish; upper 

 parts gray; wings and tail mainly dusky and brown; white of wing much restricted. 

 Male: length (skins) 5.85-7.2.1, wing 4.19-4.58, tail z. 40-2.. 91, bill .38-. 45. Female: 



