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on bushy hillside pastures, but becoming local and uncommon 

 among the White Mountains. About the Winnepesaukee re- 

 gion the bird is very common in suitable places, and follows the 

 valleys well up among the mountains on both sides of the great 

 range. On the south side of the range, I have found small col- 

 onies in the Saco valley at North Conway and Intervale, and a 

 few pairs still farther up at Jackson, on the western slope of 

 Spruce Mountain, facing the Glen road, and at an elevation of 

 about 1,500 feet. On the north side of the range, Mr. F. H. Al- 

 len has -found them not uncommon at Jefferson and Randolph, 

 these birds very likely reaching this district by way of the Con- 

 necticut valley. It is noticeable that a large part of the nests 

 found in southern New Hampshire are built in low bushes. After 

 the 3 r oung are on the wing, the birds continue on their breeding 

 grounds in small family flocks, into September, and Dr. Walter 

 Faxon has observed them at Franconia so late as October 7. 

 Dates : April 19 to October 7. 



181. Juiico hyeinalis (Linn.). SLATE-COLORED JUNCO. 



An abundant spring and fall migrant, and throughout the 

 Canadian area, a common summer resident of coniferous woods 

 or open, dry pastures grown up to small pines or spruces ; also 

 a winter resident in the southern part of the state. South of 

 Lake Winnepesaukee the bird is local in summer, breeding in 

 suitable localities, as at Northfield on Bean Hill, South Kear- 

 sarge (Dearborn, '98), on Mt. Monadnock above 1,500 feet in 

 the spruce growth (Thayer, in lit.}, and along the ridge of -land 

 in the western part of the state northward to the White Moun- 

 tains. At Intervale, a few pairs breed even in the valley bot- 

 tom of the Saco at 520 feet, and thence up to the limit of scrub 

 growth on the higher mountains, at 4,800 to 5,000 feet. Above 

 this level a few scattering pairs are to be found here and there 

 where an outlying clump of dwarfed firs provides shelter, and a 

 few birds are usually to be found feeding about the buildings 

 on the extreme summit of Mt. Washington (6,291 feet). I have 

 no doubt these birds nest on the summit, and they must surely 

 find an abundance of insect food. In the southern part of the 

 state, the bird is known to winter in small numbers ; Mr. W. E. 



