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black; bill longer, and general dimensions somewhat less; young much 

 more stronglytinged with buflf beneath. 



Adult //«ffc.— Length (skin), l::i7.00-139.4:6 (132.08); wing, (;9.09- 

 73.66 (70.87); tail, 58.42-6i.77 (61.21); exposed culmen, 10.16-11.43 

 (10.92); depth of bill at base (one specimen), 6.86; tarsus, 19.sl-20.32 

 (20.32); middle toe, 13.97-15.24 (14.48).' 



Adult female.— LQw^th. (skin), 124.46-143.61 (131.06); wing, 66.65- 

 70.87 (68.83); tail, 58.67-60.71 (59.69); exposed culmen, 10.16-11.43 

 (10.67); depth of bill at base (one specimen), 6.60; tarsus, 19.05-20.32 

 (19.81); middle toe, 12.70-13.72 (13.21).' i 



Southern Coast Range of California (Point Pinos, near Monterey). 



Junco ;nnosus Looms, Auk, x, Jan., 1893, 47 (Point Pinos, Jlonterey Co., Cali- 

 fornia; coll. Leland Stanford Jr. University). 



Junco hyemalis pinosus American Oknithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xi, 

 Jan., 1894, 47; Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 567d.— Loomis, Auk, xi, 1894, 

 265, pi. 7.— RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 603.— Kaeding, 

 Bull. Coop. Orn. Club, i, 1899, 81 (habits). 



JUNCO MONTANUS Ridgway. 

 MONTANA JTJNOO. 



Similar to J. oreganus s/mfeldti, but adult male with head, neck, and 

 chest slate-gray or slate color, instead of black; similar also to J. 

 mearnsi, but wing and tail decidedly shorter and color of head, neck, 

 and chest much darker. 



Adult male in summer. — Head, neck, and chest slate-gray or slate 

 color, sometimes approaching blackish slate on top and sides of head, the 

 lores, blackish slate or slate-black; back and scapulars broccoli brown; 

 smaller wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts gray (between gray 

 no. 6 and smoke gray^); sides and flanks, vinaceous-cinnamon; median 

 under parts, including under tail-coverts, white; greater wing-coverts, 

 remiges, and six middle rectrices, dusky, edged with gray, these edg- 

 ings more brown (hair-brown or broccoli brown) on innermost greater 

 coverts and tertials; outermost rectrices, entirely white or with only 

 a little dusky at base of inner web; second rectrix, chiefly white; 

 third, dusky, with more or less of white on terminal or subterminal 

 portion of inner web; bill, pale reddish or yellowish brown (pinkish 

 white in life?), usually with more or less of the tip dusky; tarsi, light 

 brownish; toes, darker. 



Adult female in summer. — Similar to the male, but usually rather 

 duller in color, the occiput or hindneck often tinged with grayish 

 brown, and the gray color of head, neck, and chest averaging rather 

 lighter. 



^Five specimens. 



^ See Ridgway' s Nomenclature of Colors, pi. 2. 



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