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ever, reduced to a few feathers in spring dress. Interscapular region, witli the feathers, streaked with dark brown, suffused 

 with dark rufous externally. Two narrow white bauds on the wings. 



Length, about 7 to 7.50 inches; extent, 9.75 to 10.12 ; wing, 3.30. 



Eab, — Pacific coast from Russian America to southern California ; Black Hills of Eocky Mountains. ? 



The large and handsome golden-crowned sparrow seems to be only a straggler in the forest 

 regions west of the Cascade mountains, and, like other California birds, probably migrates 

 more abundantly to the open plains eastward of them. I saw them but once near Puget 

 Sound on the 10th of May, when they were probably migrating. Though I looked for them 

 carefully during two months after that, I could find no more. — C. 



This species resembles much, in habit and size, the last. It is also generally very fat — too 

 fat, frequently, for skinning nicely. Audubon, in his Synopsis, says that the species is rare. 

 This is not the case either in the vicinity of Fort Dalles or Fort Steilacoom, in both of which 

 places it is in summer quite abundant. 



The measurements of two specimens obtained by me at Fort Steilacoom are much larger than 

 those given in Audubon's Synopsis. Another specimen, (No. 90,) killed in May, 1854, at Fort 

 Steilacoom, measured 10.50 in extent, and weighed exactly one ounce. — S. 



JUNCO OREGONUS, S elate r. 



Oregon Suow Bird. 



FringiOa aregona, Townsend, J. A. N. Sc. VII, 1837, 188.— Ib. Narrative, 1839, 345.— Audubon, Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 



68 : pi. ?m. 

 Struthui oregonus, BoN. List, 1838.— Ib. Consp. 1850, 475.— Newberry, Zool. Cal. & Or. Koute ; Kep. P. R. K. IV, 



IV, 1857, 88. 

 Nipkoea oregona, Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 107. — Id. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 91 ; pi. 168. — Cab. Mus. Hein. 1851, 



134. 

 Junco oregonus, Solater, Pr. Zool. Soc. 1857, 7. — Baird, Gen. Rep. Birds, 466. 

 Friiigillahttdsonia, Licht. Beit. Faun. Cal. in Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, for 1838, 1839, 424. (Not F. hudionia, Forster.) 



Sp. Cu. — Head and neck all round sooty black ; this color extending to the upper part of the breast, but not along the 

 aides under the wings. Interscapular region of the back and exposed surface of the wings dark rufous brown. A lighter tin' 

 of the same on the sides of breast and belly. Rump Ijrownish ash. Outer two tail feathers white ; the thud with only an 

 obscure streak of white. Length, about 6 inches ; extent, 9 ; wing, 3 00. Iris brown; bill pale pink in winter; legs light 

 brown. 



ffab. — Pacific coast of the United States to the eastern side of the Rocky monntains. Stragglers as far east as Fort Leaven. 

 worth in winter and Great Bend of Missouri. 



The Oregon snow bird is a common species throughout the Ten-itory, especially in winter, 

 when it comes about houses and farms, with exactly the same habits as the common Atlantic 

 species. In summer I have only seen it about Puget Soimd, where it builds. I never could 

 discover its nest, which is built in the forest, and on the ground, according to Nuttall. I 

 noticed fledged young as earl)' as May 24. At this season they are not gregarious, and 

 frequent principally the edges of woods, having much the habits of the sparrows. — C. 



Extremely abundant throughout Washington and Oregon Territories, where it takes the same 

 position as the J. hyemalis does in the eastern States. An individual obtained by me at Fort 

 Steilacoom weighed exactly three drachms. — S. 



