BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 283 



North Carolina, alt. 4,000 ft.; resident).— Brewster, Auk, iii, 1HK6, 98, in 

 text (mountains of w. North Carolina).— Rives, Auk, iii, 1886, 157, 160, in 

 text (Salt Pond Mountain, s. w. Virginia, June).— Batchelder, .Vuk, iii, 

 1886, 308 (Asheville, North Carolina, winter). 



Junco hyemalis carolinensin Brewster, Auk, iii, .Jan., 1886, 108 (Black Mountain, 

 w. North Carolina; coll. W. Brewster).— Batchelder, Auk, iii, 1886, .312 

 (crit.).— Bennett, Auk, iv, 1887, 242 (mountains of w. North Carolina, above 

 3,000 ft.; crit.) .—Jeffries, Auk, vi, 1889, 121 (Highlands, w. North Caro- 

 lina, May).— Chapman, Auk, v, 1888, 398.— Neheling, Our Native Birds, 

 etc., ii, 1896, 139.— Rives, Auk, xv, 1898, 136 (spruce region, West Virginia); 

 Cat. Birds Virginias, 1890, 74 (White Top Mt., breeding).— American Orni- 

 thologists' Union Committee, Auk, ix, 1892, 107; Check List, 2d ed., 1895, 

 no. 567c. 



J. [unco] hyemalvi carolinensis Ridgw.vy, Man. X. Am. Birds, 1887, 423. 



Junco carolinemis Brewster, Auk, iii, April, 1886, 277, in text. — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Suppl. to Check List, 1889, 13; Check List, abridged 

 ed., 1889, no. 567.1.— D wight. Auk, viii, 1891, 290 (crit.). 



[Junco hiemalv^.'] Subsp. a. Junco carolinensis 8harpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xii, 1888, 649. 



JUNCO OREGANUS OREGANUS (Townsend). 

 OREGON JUNCO. 



Adult iiuxl,'. — Head, neck, and chest black (sometimes inclining to 

 slate-black on throat and chest), sharply or abruptly defined all round 

 posteriorly; back and scapulars chestnut, chocolate, or walnut brown, 

 varying to chocolate or vaudyke brown or warm sepia; rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, and lesser and middle wing-coverts dull slate-gray or mouse 

 gray; wings and tail blackish, the greater coverts (broadly), primaries, 

 secondaries, and recti'ices (narrowly) edged with grayish; innermost 

 greater coverts and secondaries with outer webs mostly brownish; out- 

 ermost tail-feather white, sometimes with a little dusky on basal por- 

 tion of inner web; second tail-feather mostly white, and third partly 

 white near tip; sides and flanks light vinaceous- cinnamon, the latter 

 more or less tinged or mixed with grayish brown; rest of under parts 

 (posterior to chest) white; bill pinkish white (in life), with a little 

 dusky at tip; iris reddish brown or claret red; tarsi light brownish, 

 toes darker; length (skins), 139.70-154.18 (1-±1:.27); wing, 72.rt-l-78.23 

 (75.18); tail, 61.72-68.33(64.77); exposed culmen, 10.41-11.43 (10.92); 

 depth of bill at base (two specimens), 6.35-6.60 (6.42); tarsus, 20.-32- 

 21.84 (21.08); middle toe, 13.21-15.24 (14.48).^ 



Adult female. — Quite different from the male. Head, neck, and 

 chest dull slate color or mouse gray, the pileum and hindneck mostly 

 brown (light bistre or sepia); back and scapulars light bistre or sepia 

 brown, varying to prout's brown, lighter in color than brown of hind- 

 neck; rump, upper tail-coverts, and smaller wing-coverts hair brown; 



' Ten specimens. 



