298 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



longer, bill larger, with mandible flesh-colored or lilac whitish instead 

 of yellow, iris brown instead of yellow, rufous of upper parts con- 

 fined to the interscapular region (the scapulars and greater wing- 

 coverts being pure gray), and with the two lateral rectrices more 

 extensive!}' white. 



Adult ma^^.— Length (skins), 147.57-163.83 (154.43); wing, 81.79- 

 86.61 (84.58); tail, 72.90-76.96 (75.18); exposed culmen, 11.18-12.70 

 (11.94); depth of bill at base, 7.11-8.13 (7.62); tarsus, 19.81-22.10 

 (21.34); middle toe, 14.22-15.24 (14.99).^ 



A(Mt female.— L&ngih (skins), 139.45-155.45 (146.30); wing, 76.20- 

 81.53 (79.25); tail, 68.33-74.17 (70.36); exposed culmen, 11.43-12.19 

 (11.68); depth of bill at base, 7.37-7.62 (7.62); tarsus, 20.57-21.08 

 (20.83).' 



Breeding on high mountains of New Mexico (Nutria, San Miguel 

 County, Lincoln County, etc.) and central Arizona (White Mountains, 

 San Francisco Mountains, MogoUon Mountains, near Apache, etc.); 

 southward in winter to northeastern Sonora, northwestern Chihuahua 

 (San Diego), and western Texas (Fort Davis). 



Strathus caniceps Woodhouse," in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and Col. E,., 1853, 

 83, part (description?). 



Juneo dorsalis Henky, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., x. May, 1858, 117 (Fort Thorn, 

 New Mexico; U. S. Nat. Mus. ) ; 1859, 107 (Fort Stanton, New Mexico, breed- 

 ing).— Baihd, -Eep. Pacific E. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 467; ed. 1860 (" Birds N. 

 Am."), atlas, pi. 28, fig. 1; Cat. N.Am. Birds, 1859, no. 351.— Brewer, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 73 (near Camp Apache, Arizona, breeding; 

 descr. eggs). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 221. — Shaepe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 655 ("Fort Bridger, Utah" »). 



[Junco] dorsalis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 93, no. 7371. 



[Junco caniceps] var. dorsalis Hensh.aw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 

 (1874), 113 (crit). 



Junco caniceps . . . var. dorsalis JiKSsaAw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 

 (1874), 115 (Nutria, New Mexico, July; White Mts., New Mexico, Sept.; 

 White Mts., Arizona, Sept.; habits). 



Junco cinereus . . . var. dorsalis Henshaw, Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 270, 

 pi. 9 (White Mts., Arizona, July; mts. of s. w. New Mexico; Nutria, New 

 Mexico, July 19; Camp Apache, Arizona, breeding; habits; descr. nest and 



Junco cinereus var. dorsalis Stephens, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, April, 1878, 94 

 (breeding in higher mts. of New Mexico). 



■ Junco cinereus dorsalis Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, Oct., 1882, 195 (Chiri- 

 cahuaMts., s. Arizona, Mar. 26). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii; 

 1885, 355; Auk, ii, 1885, 364 (crit.); Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 423.— Ameki 

 CAN Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 570a. — Scott, Auk, iv, 

 1887, 201 (Santa Catalina Mts., s. Arizona, Jan., Apr.). — Alle.\, Auk, iv. 

 1887, 201 (crit.) ; Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., v, 1893, 39 (San Diego, n. w. Chi' 

 huahua, Nov.).— Cooke, Bird Jligr. Miss. Val., 1888, 206 (Fort Davis, w 



^ Eight specimens. 

 ^ Three specimens. 

 ■' Either the identification or the locality erroneous. 



