266 CHECK-UST OF NORTH AMEEICAN BIRDS. 



Genus JUNCO Waglee. 



Junco Waglek, Isis, XXIV, 1831, 526. Type, by monotypy, Junco 

 phcEonotus Wagler. 



Junco aikeni Ridgway. White-winged Junco. [566.] 



Junco hyemalis var. aikeni Ridgway, Amer. Nat., VII, Oct., 1873, 613, 

 615. (El Paso Co., Colorado.) 



Range. — Central Rocky Mountain region. Breeds in the Bear 

 Lodge Mountains, Wyoming, the Black Hills, South Dakota, and in 

 northwestern Nebraska; winters from the Black Hills to southern Col- 

 orado and western Kansas, and casually to Oklahoma and New 

 Mexico. 



Junco hyemalis (LiNN.a;us). 



Range. — North America, from tree limit south to the Gulf coast 

 and Mexico, breeding northward and in the more elevated parts. 



a. Junco hyemalis hyemalis (Linn^its). Slate-colored Junco. [567.] 

 Fringilla hyemalis LiNN.a!trs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 183. (Carolina.) 



Range. — Eastern and northern North America. Breeds in Hudsonian and 

 Canadian zones in northwestern Alaska (tree limit), northern Mackenzie 

 (tree limit), central Keewatin, and central Ungava south to base of Alaska 

 Peninsula, southern Yukon, central Alberta, northern Minnesota, central 

 Michigan, Ontario, and mountains of New York, Pennsylvania, and Massa- 

 chusetts; winters throughout the eastern United States and southern Ontario 

 south to the Gulf coast; casual in California, Arizona, and New Mexico; 

 straggles to Siberia. 



6. Junco hyemalis oiegimis (J. K. Townsend). Oregon Junco. [567a.] 



Frinf/illa oregana Townsend, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII, Pt. 

 2, 1837, 188. (Near Fort Vancouver, Washington.) 



Range. — North Pacific coast. Breeds from Yakutat Bay, Alaska, to 

 Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia; winters southward along the 

 coast to Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties, CaUfornia; casually to eastern 

 Oregon and Nevada. 



c. Junco hyemalis connSctens Coues. Shufeldt's Junco. [5672>.] 



Junco hiemalis connectens Cottes, Key N. A. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 378. 

 (Colorado Springs, Colorado.) 



