264. 
265. 
266. 
267. 
83. 
268. 
FRINGILLIDZE: FINCHES, BUNTINGS, SPARROWS, ETC. 379 
J.h.annec’tens, (Lat. annectens, annexing ; ad, to, and necto, I join.) PrnK-sIpED SNow- 
BIRD. Characters in general of J. caniceps (No. 265) ; differs by more abrupt definition of the 
white belly from the ashy breast, and pinkish sides: by so much resembling oregonus. Southern 
Rocky Mt. region, from Wyoming, and especially Colorado, to New Mexico and Arizona; 
migrating latitudinally with season, but chiefly working up and down the mountains. 
J. h. ca/niceps. (Lat. caniceps, gray-headed ; canus, gray.) GRAY-HEADED SNOW-BIRD. 
Clear ash, purest on head, paler below, and fading gradually into white on belly; interscapulars 
abruptly, definitely, chestnut or rusty-brown ; lores blackish ; bill flesh-color ; iris brown ; no 
fulvous wash on sides ; no chestnut on wings in the typical form. Rather larger than hiemalis; 
length about 7.00; wing over 3.00; tail about 3.00. Thesexual and seasonal changes are not 
so well marked as in the heavily-colored hiemalis and oregonus, but parallel as far as they go. 
Very young birds are streaked, like all the rest. Rocky Mts. of the U. 8., from Wyoming 
southward ; Wahsatch and Uintah Mts. Five or six of the styles of Junco, including J. 
hiemalis, occur together in the mountains of Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. 
J. h. dorsa'lis. (Lat. dorsalis, pertaining to the back; dorsum, the back.) REep-BACKED 
SNow-BiRD. Characters in general of J. caniceps; but with the bill black and yellow, as in 
cinereus. Mountains of New Mexico and Arizona. 
J. h. cine/reus. (Lat. cinereus, ashy; cinis, ashes.) CINEREOUS SNOW-BIRD. MEXICAN 
Snow-sirp. Like J. caniceps. Under parts paler ash, fading sooner and more insensibly into 
white; chestnut of back intense, and spreading over the wing-coverts and inner secondaries ; 
upper mandible black; lower yellow; iris yellow. Mexico to the U. 8. border. Mt. Graham, 
Arizona. 
SPIZEL'LA. (Ital. diminutive form of Lat. spiza, from Gr. 
onifa, a finch.) Cupping Sparrows. Embracing small 
species, 5-6 inches long, with the long, broad-feathered, forked 
tail about equalling (more or less) the rather pointed wings ; 
with no yellowish anywhere, and no streaks on the under parts 
when adult ; interscapular region distinctly streaked ; rump plain 
(except atrigularis) ; young fully streaked. Point of wing formed 
by 2d to 4th or 5th quill; 1st usually between 5th and 6th. Bill 
small, conic. Tarsus little if any longer than middle toe and Fic. 237.—Chippy’s head, as 
claw; lateral toes about equal. Tail-feathers widening a little arse aslife. (E. C.) 
to broadly oval tips. Numerous species, Eastern and Western, inhabiting shrubbery ; three 
of them familiar Eastern birds. 
Analysis of Species. 
Eastern and Western species with the crown of the adult chestnut. 
Bill black and yellow; forehead not black; two distinct white wing-bars; dark spot on breast; large: 
about 6.00long . .. . .monticola 268 
Bill and forehead black ; wing:bavs net conspicuous ; breast sah galt, without apeti - length under 6. 
Tail decidedly shorter than wing . . + domestica 269, 270 
Bill brownish-red; forehead not black; nae nee indistinct; breast busty white, without spot. 
Length under6.00 2. ........ 0 2. 2. ee eee soe + « agrestis 271 
Western species, with the crown not chestnut, and streaked like the back. 
Crown divided by a median stripe, and its streaks separated from those of the back by an ashy 
interval. Tailequalto wings . . ~ 1. pallida 272 
Crown not evidently divided, and streaked poritiouedéie with the bade Tail isteet: - + « breweri 272 
Western species, with the crown of the adult dark ash. Face and throat black. Tail decidedly longer 
thanwing . : . Bes : . atrigularis 274 
S. monti/cola. (Lat. monticola, inhabiting mountains; mons, montis, a mountain; colo, I 
dwell; zmcola, an inhabitant.) Tree Sparrow. WINTER Curp-BirD. Bill black above, 
yellow below; legs brown; toes black. No black on forehead; crown chestnut (in winter 
specimens the feathers usually skirted with gray), bordered by a grayish-white superciliary and 
loral line; a postocular chestnut stripe over auriculars, and some vague chestnut marks on 
