BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 271 



son, Nevada) ; Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 274, pi. 11 (iron Springs, 

 Toquerville, and St. George, Utah; San Luia, Colorado; Gila R., Arizona). 



Poospiza belli, var. nevadenm Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 

 i, 1874, 594.— Bendire, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1877, 119 (Camp Harney e. 

 Oregon, breeding). 



Poospiza belli . . . var. nevadensis Henshaiv, Rep. Orn.Spec. Wheeler'.s Surv., 

 1876, 243 (near Kernville, California, 1 spec. October 28) . 



Poospiza belli nevadensis Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vii, Jan., 1875, 11, 13, 19, 21, 

 (localities in Nevada and Utah). — Goss, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 

 116 (San Marcial, New Mexico, fall and winter; habits, etc.). 



A-lmphispiza'] bellii var. nevadensis Oohes, Birds N. W., 1874, 234, in text. 



A.[mphispiza^ belli nevadensis Henshaw, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 296 

 (Carson, Nevada, etc.; descr. nest and eggs). 



Amphispiza bellii nevadensis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 180, 

 217. 



Amphispiza belli nevadensis Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 225a. — Coues, 

 Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 260.— Drew, Auk, ii, 1885, 16 (Colorado, up to 

 7,000 ft.). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 574a. — 

 Scott, Auk, iv, 1887, 203 (Santa Catalina Mts., Arizona, 1 spec. Sept.). — 

 CooKE, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 206 (Fort Davis, w^ Texas, winter) ; Bull, 

 no. 37, State Agri. Col. Colorado, 1897, 106 (east as far as San Luis Park, and 

 up to 8,000 ft.); Bull. no. 44, 1898, 166 (near Cheyenne, Wyoming).— 

 Stephens, Auk, vii, 1890, 296, 297 (Colorado Desert, California, winter). — 

 Merriam, North Am. Fauna, no. 5, 1891, 103 (Birch Creek, Lemhi R., Snake 

 R., etc., Idaho). — Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 144. — Grinnell, 

 Pub. ii, Pasadena Acad. Sci., 1898, 39 (head of Tujunga Canon, s. e. Cali- 

 fornia; 3,000 to 6,000 ft. in summer, lower mesas in winter). — Fisher, Auk, 

 XV, 1898, 190 (crit.). 



A.{m.phispiza'\ 6. [eZK] nevadenm Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 376. 



A. [mphispiza'] belli nevadensis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 427. 



Amphispiza nevadensis Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 476 (localities in 

 Nevada and Utah; habits, song, etc.). — Grinnell, Auk, xv, 1898,58,59 

 (central Los Angeles Co., California, 4,000 to 6,000 ft., July; crit.). 



[Amphispiza bdli.'\ Subsp. a. Amphispiza nevadenm Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xii, 1888, 630 ("British Columbia"; San Bernardino, California, etc.). 



Amphispiza belli cinerea ? (not of Townsend) Price, Bull. Cooper Orn. Club, i, 1899, 

 93 (Yuma, Arizona, winter). 



Genus JUNCO Wagler. 



Junco Wagler, Isis, 1831, 526. (Type, /. phseonotus Wagler.) 



Struthus (not of Boie, 1826) Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 31. (Type, 



Emberiza hyemalis Linnseus. ) 

 Niphiea^ Audubon, Synopsis Birds N. Am., 1839, 106. (Type, Emberiza hyemalis 



Linnseus. ) 



Small oi? rather small semiterrestrial Fringillidse, with tail nearly 

 (sometimes quite) as long as wing, double-rounded; coloration of adults 

 plain, without streaks (except on back in a single aberrant species), 

 with lateral tail-feathers more or less white (except in the aberrant 

 species mentioned). 



1 "Name from Ni ipo?, snow." 



