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SLATE-COLORED JUNCO. 



567. Junco hy emails. 6% inches. 



These are one of our most common winter birds 

 easily recognized, while perching or on the ground, 

 by the white or pinkish bill, and when flying by the 

 white outer tail feathers, and the gray and white plu- 

 mage. They are very common about houses as well as 

 on the edges of woods and in pine groves, being very 

 tame and coming into the dooryard to feed upon 

 crumbs or chaff which is often thrown out for them. 



Song. A sweet simple trill, which has a beautiful 

 effect when given by a whole flock in unison. 



Nest. Of grasses, on the ground, usually beside of 

 a stone, in a bunch of weeds or under a small shrub, 

 where it is well concealed. The three or four eggs are 

 whitish, sprinkled with reddish brown (.75 x .55). 



Range. Eastern N. A., breeding from the northern 

 parts of the northern tier of states northward; win- 

 ters south to the Gulf. 



Sub-species. 567e. Carolina Junco (carolinensis), 

 found in the Alleghenies from Virginia to Georgia; 

 there are several races found west of the Rockies. 



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