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rectrix mostly white, but basal portion of inner web extensively 

 dusky; second rectrix with terminal third (approximately) of inner 

 web white; sides and flanks pinkish buff; l)reast, abdomen, and under 

 tail-coverts white; maxilla dusky brown, mandible yellowish (bright 

 yellow in life); iris bright orange-j^ellow; tarsi light brown, toes 

 darker. 



Adults in winter.— '&imi\a.x to summer adults, but plumage softer, 

 colors rather deeper (the back, throat, and chest especially), the 

 hindneck and occiput usually washed or tinged with light brown. 



Toung. — Much like adults, but pileum and hindneck buffy grayish, 

 streaked with dusky; back and scapulars streaked with dusky; chin 

 and throat dull white, flecked with dusky; chest pale buffy, with 

 wedge-shaped dusky streaks, and sides and flanks light buffy. 



^cZ-mZ?; mafes.— Length (skins), 130.81-l-i8.08 (141.22); wing, TO.87- 

 72.39 (71.37); tail, 60.96-65.79 (64.01); exposed culmen, 10.67-11.43 

 (11.18); depth of .bill at base (one specimen), 7.11; tarsus, 20.67-21.34 

 (20.83); middle toe, 13.46-14.99 (14.22).' 



Ad'idt females-.— lu^ng^h (skins) 133.35-141.73 (137.67); wing, 66.80- 

 68.33 (67.56); exposed culmen, 10.67-10.92 (10.79); depth of bill at 

 base, 7.11; tarsus, 20.07; middle toe, 13.97.' 



Southern part of Lower California (Victoria Mountains, Mount 

 Miraflores, etc.). 



Junco hairdi " Belding, MS." Eidgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.,vi, no. 10, Oct. 5, 

 1883, 155 (Laguna, Lower California; U. S. Nat. Mus.)', 348 (crit.).— Bel- 

 ding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883,348 (Victoria Mts., Lower California, 

 alt. 3,000 ft.) .—American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no.571.— 

 Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 653. 



J. \unco\ hairdi Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 425. 



JUNCO CANICEPS (Woodhouse). 

 GRAY-HEADED JUNCO. 



Head, neck, chest, and sides gray; interscapulars rufous or brown, 

 but none of this color on wings; bill light brown (pinkish in life). 



Adults in s%mi7rter {sexes alike). — Head, neck, chest, sides, flanks, 

 scapulars, smaller wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts plain 

 slate-gray, the inferior portions lighter (intermediate between gray 

 no. 7 and olive-gray); abdomen, anal region, and under tail-coverts 

 white; lores slate-blackish; interscapulars cinnamon-rufous, forming 

 a conspicuous dorsal patch, this sometimes broken by admixture of 

 grayish (rarely — in some females only ? — replaced by a patch of rusty 

 olive-brownish) ; greater wing-coverts, remiges, and six middle rectrices 

 duskj'', edged with slate-grayish (edgings on primaries narrower, more 

 sharply defined, and paler); outermost rectrices white, the second 



^ Five specimens. ^ Two specimens. 



