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cidedly referred to either aikeni or oregonm-hyemalts is unusual. 

 The white wing bands vary very much; in the largest males 

 they are almost always broad and well defined; in the small 

 males and females they are narrower, sometimes almost obsolete, 

 occasionally wanting on one wing and present on the other, and 

 sometimes wholly wanting or indicated by the faintest trace. In 

 the latter case, the other characteristics of the 'bird are those of 

 hyemaliS) while the peculiar features of the latter bird or of 

 oregonus are never to be seen where the white bands are well 

 defined. Well-developed males frequently have white lores or 

 white spots on the head and neck." 



Junco hy emails (LINN.). 



SLATE-COLORED JUNCO. 

 PLATE XXVIII. 



Winter sojourner; abundant. The bulk leave in March; be- 

 gin to return about the middle of October. 



B. 354. R. 217. C. 261. G. Ill, 232. U. 567. 



HABITAT. Northern North America; south in winter through- 

 out the eastern United States, and straggling westward to the 

 Pacific coast. Breeds from Nova Scotia and Maine to Alaska. 



SP. CHAB. "Everywhere of a grayish dark ashy black, deepest anteriorly; 

 middle of the breast behind and of the belly, the under tail coverts, and first 

 and second external tail feathers, white; the third tail feather white, margined 

 with black. Female: Paler in winter, washed with brownish to pinkish brown. 

 Young: Streaked above and below. 



"The wing is rounded; the second quill longest; the third, fourth and fifth 

 successively a little shorter; the first longer than the sixth. Tail slightly 

 rounded and a little emarginate. In full spring dress there is no trace of any 

 second color on the back, except an exceedingly faint and scarcely appreciable 

 wash of dull brownish over the whole upper parts. The markings of the third 

 tail feather vary somewhat in specimens. Sometimes the whole tip is. margined 

 with brown; sometimes the white extends to the end; sometimes both webs are 

 margined with brown; sometimes the outer is entirely white; sometimes the 

 brownish wash on the back is more distinct." 



Stretch of 

 Length. wing. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Bill. 



Male 6.20 9.70 3.15 2.75 .80 .43 



Female... 5.90 9.20 2.90 2.60 .80 .40 



Iris blackish brown; bill white, with a pinkish, sometimes 

 bluish tinge, dark at tips; legs brown; feet dark brown; claws 

 black. 



