284 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



second tail-feathei- always (?) with less than half its area white; other- 

 wise like the male, but wings more tinged with brown, and vihaceous- 

 cinnamon of sides and flanks rather duller or less pinkish; length 

 (skins), 131.57-147.07 (138.68); wing, 70.61-7^.61 (71.37); tail, 59.44- 

 62.48 (60.96); exposed culmen, 10.41-11.43 (10.92); depth of bill at 

 base (three specimens), 6.35-6.60 (6.60); tar.sus, 19.56-21.59 (20.57); 

 middle toe, 13.46-15.24 (14.48).'. 



YoniKj. — Pileuni and hindneck grayish brown streaked with black- 

 ish; back and scapulars more rufescent brown (incliring to prout's 

 brown) streaked with black; throat, chest, sides, and flanks dull pale 

 butty streaked with blackish, the streaks broader and more or less 

 wedge-shaped on chest; otherwise essentially like adults. 



[Winter adults are like summer birds, but the colors are deeper or 

 richer, especially in the male, in which the back is rich vandj-ke brown, 

 sharply contrasted with the deep blackof the hindneck, and the feathers 

 •of chest are more or less tipped (narrowly) with whitish. 



Younger birds in winter are like adults, but the hiales, at least, have 

 the difl'erently colored areas less sharply contrasted.] 



Breeding from extreme northern end of British Columbia (Port 

 Simpson, etc.), north along Alaskan coast, including islands, to Yaku- 

 tat Bay; accidental on Unalaska (one specimen, April 8, 1879), and on 

 outer Iliasik Island, near Belkofski, Alaska Peninsula (one specimen, 

 January, 1889);^ in winter, south along the coast to Santa Cruz and 

 San Mateo counties, California, occasionally straggling to the interior 

 (FortKlamath, e. Oregon, October; West Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, 

 October). 



Fringilla oregana Townsend, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, 1837, 188 ( "forests 

 near the Columbia River ; ' ' type ' in U. S. Nat. llus. ) ; Narrative, 1 S39, 345. 



Fringilla oi'er/onii AnDVBON, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 68, pi. 398. 



F.[ringilla] oregona Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 372. 



■8t.ruihus oregonus Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 31. — Newberry, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., vi, pt. iv, 1857, 88, part (San Francisco, California, 

 winter). 



Niphsca oregona Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 107; Birds Am., oct. ed., iii, 1841, 91, 

 pi. 168. 



Niphien oregona Baird, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, lS.'i2. 316, part (Ore- 

 gon; California?). 



N.\_iphaen'\ oregoiiii Cabants, Miis. Hein., i, 1851, 134 (Sitka). 



Junco nregoirux Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 7. — Bairb, Rep. Pacific R. 

 R. Surv., ix, 18.58, 466, part; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 352, part.— Cooper 

 and SucKLEY, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 202, part (Puget Sound, 

 etc., winter). — Dall and Baxxister, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 284 

 (Sitka, Alaska).— Cooper, Orn. Oal., 1870, 199, part,— (?) Finsch, Abh. Nat. 

 Ver. Bremen, iii, 1872, 53(Alexandrovsk, Alaska).— Coues, Check List, 1873, 

 no. 175?, part; Birds N. W., 1874, 142, part. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 



' Ten specimens. 



^ In collection of Chawc Littlejohn. 



"Towuf-eud's specimens, including the type, are winter birds. 



