268 FRINGILLID^J. 



Genus JUNCO, Wagler. 



Junco hyemalis (Linn.). 

 (Plate XII. fig. 13.) 



Junco hyemalis, Baird, Brewer fy Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 580 



(1874); Coues, Birds N.-West, p. 141 (1874): Sharps. Hand-l. v. 



p. 303 (1909). 

 Junco hiemalis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 647 (1888) ; Nehrk. Kat. 



Eiersamml p. 115 (1899). 

 Junco hyemalis hyemalis. Ridyw. Birds North 8f Middle Amer. i. p. 278 



(1901). 



Eggs of the Snow-bird or Slate-coloured Junco are of a regular 

 oval shape and have a fair amount of gloss. They are creamy- 

 white, mottled and blotched with pale reddish-brown and lilac-grey. 

 The markings are often confluent at the broad end of the egg and 

 form a cap. One example in the Collection is mottled entirely 

 with faint lavender-grey. They measure from ? to '8 in length, 

 and from 4 56 to '6 in breadth. 



4. North America. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 2. North America (Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. North America (Henshaw Coll.) Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 4. Fort Rae, Great Slave Lake (S. Salvia-Godman Coll. 



Jones: Henshaiu Coll.). 



2. Musquash, New Brunswick, 6th Crowley Bequest. 



May (A. Dunn : Tristram 

 Coll.). 



3. Musquash, 12th May (A. R. Crowley Bequest. 



Dresser). 



4. Grand Manan I., Bay of Fundy, W. Radciiffe Saunders, Esq. 



Nova Scotia, 7th June (S. F. [P.]. 



Cheney). 



Junco oregonus (Townsend). 



Junco oregonus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 650 (1888) ; Nehrk. 



Kat. Eiersamml p. 115 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 303 (1909). 

 Junco oreganus oreganus, Ridgw. Birds North 8f Middle Amer. i. p. 283 



(1901). 



Five eggs received in the Crowley Bequest and believed to be 

 those of the Oregon Junco, vary greatly both in size and markings. 

 Two resemble those of J. hyemalis, being white, spotted and blotched 

 with light red and lilac, chiefly about the broad end. They measure 

 respectively -74 by -57 and '76 by '6. A third egg is similar in 

 colour, but much smaller, '71 by -53. Two eggs from Forfc 

 Resolution are pale greenish-white, thickly and evenly spotted all 

 over with brown and lilac-grey. They measure respectively -8 by 

 59 and "75 by *6. 



No description of the eggs of this species appears to have been 

 published. It seems doubtful if the eggs from Fort Resolution 



