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woods west of North Evanston, a large flock of Juncos, in which 

 there was an Arctic Towhee. He shot five of the birds, one of 

 which proved to be Junco montanns, an identification which was 

 later confirmed by Mr. Ridgway. Mr. Dayton says : 



"The birds were feeding on the seeds of ragweed and I would 

 have passed them by but for the fact that the darkest one flew 

 to the dead limb of a sapling and was so strikingly different from 

 our common Juncos that I shot the bird and also four others 

 which showed a very dark plumage." 



This species was recorded some thirty years ago by Mr. H. 

 K. Coale (as Junco oregonus), who says:* "October 14, 1875, I 

 saw a flock of some dozen birds in a willow tree and killed one 

 of them with a sling ; the rest flew off and were not seen again. 

 The specimen was sent to Mr. Nelson, who identified it as Junco 

 oreganus, the first one of this species captured in the state (Illi- 

 nois), its extreme eastern range heretofore known being Kan- 

 sas." Mr. Coale informs me that this specimen was taken in a 

 yard in Chicago. Junco montanus would seem to be a rare win- 

 ter visitant. 



The range of this species is as follows : Breeding from north- 

 western Montana and northern Idaho north to Northwest Terri- 

 tory and Alberta; in winter south to Arizona, northern Chihua- 

 hua, western and middle Texas, etc. East more or less casually 

 to eastern Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, northern Indiana, Massa- 

 chusetts, Maryland, etc. 



Junco oreganus shufeldti (Coale). Shufeldt's Junco. 



Junco hyemalis shufeldti Coale, Auk, IV, p. 330, Oct., 1887. 



Junco hyemalis shufeldti Coale, A. O. U. Check List, p. 235, 1895. 



There is a specimen of this bird in the Field Museum of 

 Natural History, which was taken at Waukegan, Illinois, Feb- 

 ruary 26th, 1897. It is an adult male and very typical of shufeldti. 

 The skin was purchased from Mr. Henry K. Coale, who de- 

 scribed the variety. 



The range of shufeldti is as follows : Breeding from the in- 

 terior of northern British Columbia, east to the Rocky Mountains 

 in Alberta, south to Vancouver Island, Washington and northern 

 Oregon, probably to northwestern Montana and western Idaho; 

 south in winter over entire Rocky Mountain plateau of the United 

 States to Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas and even to 

 northern Mexico ; occasional in winter in northern (and eastern?) 



*Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, Vol. 22, July, 1877. 



