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dooryard, picking up what they can find, or sitting in the bushes with 

 an air of contentment that it is pleasant to see. 



Coming, as they do, when most of the home birds have left for the 

 south, they bring their own welcome, and soon seem like old friends. 

 But if you would really know your gentle winter visitors, you must 

 go back into the woods when summer comes and find them in their 

 own homes. 



Look for them in a tangle of fallen tree-tops, logs, and upturned 

 roots. A pair I once surprised in such a place at first sat and chirped 

 at me with bills full of food but soon they were flying freely back 

 and forth to the upturned root where they had hidden their nest. 



I noticed with surprise that their gray plumage toned in so well 

 with the dark earth that they were hard to see. The sharp horizontal 

 line across the breast where the gray turns abruptly to white added 

 to the disguise, the straight line breaking the round form of the bird. 



The J tsip of the Junco is unmistakable and more often heard than 

 his song, but he has both a trill and a low, sweet song as unpretentious 

 and cheery as the friendly bird himself. 



FLORENCE MERRIAM BAILEY. 



567e. J. h. carolinensis Brewst. CAROLINA JUNCO. Similar to the 

 preceding, but slightly larger, the upperparts, throat, and breast uniform 

 grayish slate-color without a brownish wash, bill horn-color. W., 3*26; 

 T., 2-85; B., '43. 



Range. S. Alleghanies. Breeds in the Canadian zone (overlapping 

 into the Alleghanian fauna) of mts. from w. Md., Va., and W. Va., s. to n. 

 Ga.; winters in adjacent lowlands. 



Nesting date, Cold Knob, W. Va., May 21. 



This is a common and apparently permanent resident species in the 

 higher parts of the southern Alleghanies. 



567f. J. h. montanus Ridgw. MONTANA JUNCO. Similar to J. h. 

 hyemalis, but head and breast blacker, the former, sharply defined from the 

 brownish black, the sides strongly washed with brownish pink. W., 3' 15; 

 T., 2-60. 



Range. N. Rocky Mts. Breeds in Canadian zone from s. Alberta s. 

 to n. Idaho and nw. Mont.; winters s. to Ariz., N. M., Chihuahua, and Tex., 

 and e. casually to Kans., Ills., Ind., Mass., and Md. 



Cambridge, one record (Mch. 25, 1874). 



575. Peucsea aestivalis sestivalis (Licht.). PINE-WOODS SPARROW. 

 Ads. Upperparts light ^chestnut, more or less streaked with black and mar- 

 gined with gray; a grayish line over the eye; bend of the wing yellow; tail- 

 feathers narrow, grayish fuscous, the outer ones much the shortest; breast 

 and sides washed with pale brownish ash ; breast sometimes with a few black 

 spots; middle of the belly white. L., 5'80; W., 2'50; T., 2'50; B., '45. 



Range. Ga. and Fla. Breeds in Austroriparian fauna from s. Ga. s. 

 to cen. Fla. ; winters in cen. and s. Fla. 



Nest, of fine grasses, on the ground, beneath scrub palmetto. Eggs, 3-5, 

 pure white, '72 x '61. Date, Lake Okeechobee, Fla., Apl. 14; San Mateo, 

 Fla., Apl. 23. 



This is a common bird in Florida. It winters in the southern part 

 of the State and migrates northward in March. It is found only in 



