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?, April 26, 1882, Colorado Springs, Colo.). I have examined it and, as cor- 

 rectly stated by Mr. Eidgway (1901, Birds North and Middle Amer., Pt. 1, 

 p. 276, footnote), it is clearly a specimen of hyemalis, and shows the characters 

 common to sex and season. 



The American Ornithologists' Union Committee (1897, p. 128; 

 1910, p. 266) follows Cones (1897, p. 94) in applying the name con- 

 nect ens to the fonn named J unco hyemaUs shufeldti by Coale (1887, 

 p. 330) and re-named (as I believe) Junco oregonus couesi by Dwight 

 (1918, p. 291). 



It is thus seen that the two men (Eidgway and Dwight) who have 

 most carefully studied the genus Junco in recent years unite in the 

 belief that connectens is not a recognizable form. It is after some 

 hesitation that I offer a contrary opinion, but I believe that the new 

 material at my disposal justifies my view. As to the treatment of the 

 name connectens by the A. 0. U. Committee, I am of the same opinion 

 as Eidgway, that it is wrongly applied in the Check-List to the form 

 that should be called Junco oreganus shufeldti Coale. The description 

 by Allen and Brewster (1883, p. 189) of the Colorado bird that served 

 later as the type of connectens, obviously a migrant or winter visitant 

 at the point of capture, fitted so nearly my specimens from the Stikine 

 region as to lead me to suspect them to be the same. This bird, as part 

 of the Brewster collection, is now in the collection of the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, at Cambridge. I have not examined it myself, 

 but at the kind suggestion of Mr. Outram Bangs I sent him a selected 

 series of the Stikine birds for comparison with the type of connectetis, 

 and, incidentally, with any other pertinent material. He remarks upon 

 them as follows : 



I have compared the skins most carefully with our very large series of eastern 



birds The very black, sharply marked ofi top of the head in your male 



birds I cannot match. The type of J. connectens Coues is a female taken at 

 Colorado Springs, Colorado, Apr. 26, 1882. It is a counterpart of your no. 10945 

 (Mus. Vert. Zool., no. 39957). Indeed you would have difficulty in telling the 

 two apart, except that the type of connectens is, although taken at an earlier 

 date, in a little more worn plumage. I can 't find spring females from the east 

 just like these, but on the other hand, autumnal females much resembling them 

 (probably young birds of the year?) are common in our series. 



For comparison with hyemalis, the form to which I believe con- 

 nectens is most nearly related, I have had an abundance of non-breed- 

 ing birds from various places in the eastern United States, and a few 

 from western points. No series of breeding birds of the eastern Jtmco 

 h. hyemaUs is available. 



