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Mr. A. W. Anthony notes this as one of the most common birds of Northwestern 

 Oregon, rearing three and often four broods in a season. He states that the birds 

 nest in various locations; in hollows of the ground under low bushes, the nest being 

 built flush with the surface; also in holes among the roots of bushes and trees, and 

 many nests are found under wood-piles. Some were found built on the shelf of a rail- 

 road cut, which was screened by a thick curtain of vines. Nesting begins about the 

 last of March, or first of April. The materials of the nests are dry grasses rather 

 loosely put together with a lining of cow-hair. The eggs are usually four, rarely 

 five in number. In a large series of the eggs of this race of Junco there appears to 

 be no distinguishable difference in coloration from those of J. hyemalis. The average 

 size of ten eggs is ,77x.56 inches. 



567a. OREGON JUNCO. 



5676. SHUFELDT'S JUNCO. Junco hj/emalis shufeldti Coale. Geog. Dist. 

 Rocky Mountain region, west in the mountains of the Great Basin to California; in 

 winter south to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Northern Mexico. Accidental in 

 Michigan, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, etc. 



Mr. Henry K. Coale, of Highland Park, 111., has named this variety of Junco in 

 honor of Dr. Robert W. Shufeldt, U. S. A., who collected the specimens from which 

 the descriptions were made and presented them to U. S. National Museum.* The 

 nesting habits and eggs of this bird are identical with those of the Oregon Junco. 



567c. THUB-BEB'S JUNCO. Junco hyemalis thurberi Anthony. Geog. Dist. 

 Sierra Nevada, and deserts and southern coast rangesiof California. 



The general habits, nests and eggs of this subspecies appear to be precisely the 

 same as J. ft. oregonus. Mr. C. W. Crandall has just added to his extensive oological 

 collection an authentic set of four eggs of this bird, taken by Edmund Heller, in the 

 San Bernardino Mountains, California, on June 8, 1897. The nest was placed on the 

 ground in a carpet of old pine needles sunk flush with the surface, and hidden by 

 pine brush. The nest was composed of dry grass, bits of moss and lined with finer 

 material of the same. The outside diameter of the nest was 2.54, inside 1.35 inches. 

 The eggs are bluish white, handsomely ringed around the larger end with chestnut 

 red and lavender with a few scattering spots over the major portion of the eggs. 

 Their sizes are .71x.58, .72x.57, .71x.57, .71x.57 inches. 



* For complete description of bird C/. Coale, Auk, IV, pp. 330-331. 



