WHERE JUiNCO ROOSTS. 



Answers to the question: "Where does Junco Roost?" have been 

 received from sufficiently scattered localities to furnish a fairly reliable 

 record of its northern and southern winter range, and its roosting habits, 

 for the past winter. 



It appears to have been absent north of 42° during the greater part of 

 the winter, and is reported as wintering north of 41" from only scattering 

 localities and in especially favorable places. It was not common much 

 above 40°, except in isolated places. Last winter it ranged further north 

 in the extreme east and in the states bordering the Mississippi River than 

 in Ohio and adjoining regions. Mr. Widmann found it wintering in 

 Louisiana about New Orleans. His is the only report from the far south. 



Junco's roosting habits are so interesting that contributors should be 

 allowed to speak for themselves. 



Philadelphia, Pa. — Within fifty feet of the side of our house there is a 

 small patch of evergreen trees, mostly cedars and hemlocks, and in these 

 trees the Juncos roost in large numbers every night through the winter. 

 — Russell Gray. 



Berwyn, Pa. — I have always found the Junco — one of our most com- 

 mon winter visitors — in the sheltered and briery nooks of old and ne- 

 glected fence rows — here commonly called the worm or Virginia fence — 

 in very stormy days, or early morning and late evening. They will also, 

 whenever it is possible, roost in cedar trees or bushes. — Frank L. Burns. 



Washington, D. C — At my home, in a suburb of the city, we have 

 many Juncos throughout the winter (from October to the end of April), 

 and having made a practice of feeding them, together with White-throated 

 Sparrows and other winter birds (including of course, the English Spar- 

 row — an unwelcome guest, however), we have many opportunities for 

 observing them. The veranda of our house extends across the west, 

 south, and part of the east sides, and is enclosed with diagonal lattice. 

 Through this many Juncos make their way about dusk, and roost beneath 

 the porch floor, probably upon the sills or braces. Of course I have 

 closed all openings through which cats might possibly gain access to them. 

 Very often, when returning home in the evening, I have startled from 

 their hiding place Juncos that had taken shelter beneath the board walk, 

 over which I was passing. I have also accidentally startled them (other 

 birds as well) from the dense foliage of small red cedar trees in my yard, 



