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western Texas, and e\'en to northern Mexico (Sierra de los Patagones, 

 Chihuahua); occasional in winter in northern (and eastern?) Califor- 

 nia (Humboldt Bay, Shasta County, etc.), and straggling eastward.' 



[,S'/ru<7(Ms] oregona {not Fringilln oregana Townsend) Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 

 1850, 475 (n. Mexico). 



Slruthus oregonus Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and Col. R., 1853, 

 83 (San Francisco Mt., Arizona, Oct. ).—(?) Newberry, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., vi, pt. iv, 1857, 88, part (Oregon, in summer). 



Niphcea oregona Baied, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 316, part (New 

 Mexico; Utah). 



Junco oregonus Baikd, Rep. Pacific R. R.Snrv., ix, 1858, 466, part (chiefly), 927, 

 part (Fort Bridger, Wy(^ming); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 352, part. — Ken- 

 NERLY, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. vi, 1859, 28 (Zuni, New Mexico; Lit- 

 tle Colorado R., Arizona). — Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 xii, pt. ii, 1860, 202, part (Puget Sound, etc., breeding). — (?) Blakiston, 

 Ibis, 1863, 76 (Mackenzie R.).— (?)Lord, Pr. Roy. Art. Inst. Woolw., iv, 1864, 

 120 (Vancouver I.).— Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 85 (Fort 

 Whipple, Arizona, Oct. to May); Check List, 1873, no. 175?, part; Birds N. 

 W., 1874, 142, part— (?)Bkown, Ibis, 1868, 422 (Vancouver I.).— Cooper, 

 Orn. Cal., 1870, 199, part.— Stevenson, Prelim. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv., 1871 

 (1872), 464 (Green R., etc., Wyoming). — Holde.n' and Aiken, Pr. Bost. Soc, 

 XV, 1872, 200 (Colorado; Wyoming).— Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 

 1872, 167 (Ogden, Utah, fall), 177 (Ogden, Sept.; Wahsatch Mts.).— Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 584, part (not pi. 26, 

 fig. 3,=/. 0. thurberi). — Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 

 114 (Bayard, New Mexico, Oct.); List Birds Utah, 1874, 6; Zool. Exp. W. 

 100th Merid., 1875, 267 (localities in Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona, Oct., 

 Nov.); Auk, iii, 1886, 74 (upper Pecos R., New Mexico, fall). — Ridgwav 

 Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 473, part (Nevada and Utah, winter); Norn. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1881, no. 218, part. — Bendire, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xix, 1877, 

 118 (Camp Harney, e. Oregon, winter; summit Canyon City Mts. summer). — 

 Drew, Auk, vi, 1881, 90 (Colorado). — Brown, Auk, vii, 1882 (Boerne, Ken- 

 dall Co., Texas, winter). 



IJunco] oregonus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 141, part. 



IJunco hyemalisi var. oregonus Ridgway, Am. Nat., vii, Oct., 1873, 613, part. 



J-lunco'] hyemalis var. oregonus Ridgway", Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 1873, 170, in 

 text (Wahsatch Mts., Utah, fall).— Tripf^, in Coues' Birds N. W., 1874, 144 

 (Colorado). 



Junco hyemalis var. oregonux Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 1873, 182 



(Colorado). 



Junco hyemalis oregonus Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vii, Jan., 1875, 19, part (West 

 Humboldt Mts., Nevada, Sept. ). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check 

 List, 1886, no. 567a, part.— Anthony, Auk, iii, 1886, 169 (Washington Co., 

 Oregon, breeding). — (?) Turner, Contr. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 1886, 174, part 

 (Kadiak, Alaska, breeding).— (?) Nelson, Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 

 192, part (Kadiak).— Scott, Auk, iv, 1887, 200 (Pinal Co., s. Arizona, Oct. to 

 Apr.).— Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 206,' part (w. Manitoba, etc.).— 

 Merria.m, North Am. Fauna, No. 3, 1890, 96 (San Francisco Mts., Arizona, 

 after Sept. 22). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1890, 145 (coast British 

 Columbia, breeding). 



'So many of the more eastern references to this form or to "/. oregonus" pertain 

 to ./. montanvs that in the absence of specimens it is impossible to say which really 

 belong here. 



