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j.exas, winter). — Meakns, Aiik, vii, 1890, 259 (breeding on northern Mogol- 

 lon Mts. and San Francisco Mts., Arizona). — Mebriam, X.Am. Fauna, no. 3, 

 1890, 40 (Grand Canon of the Colorado), 96 (San Francisco ]Mts., Arizona, 

 breeding in pine and spruce belts). 



Junco hiemalis dorsalis Coue,s, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 266. 



/. [unco'] h. [iemalis] dor-vilis CouEs, Key X. Am. Birds, 2d ed. , 1884, 379. 



Junco phieonotus dorsalix Ridgtvay, Auk, xii, Oct., 1895, 391. — American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 570a. — Cooke, Birds Colo- 

 rado, 1897, 106 (Fort Lewis, s. w. Colorado, spring, 1887). — JIitchell, Auk, 

 XV, 1898, 310 (San Miguel Co., New Mexico; breeding at 8,000 ft.). 



/.[unco] phxonotus dorsatis ■Eidgwav, Man. N. Xxn. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 423. 



" Hybrid between canireps and cinereus" Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 X. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 579, footnote. 



JUNCO PHiEONOTUS PHXONOTUS Wagler. 

 MEXICAN JUNCO. 



Similar to J. ccmiceps, but bill smaller, wings and tail shorter, max- 

 illa black, mandible yellow, iris yellow, greater wing-coverts, tertials, 

 and scapulars cinnamon-rufous, like back, and under parts more exten- 

 sively grayish. 



Adults in summer {sexes alike). — Head and neck, superiorly and lat- 

 erally, plain deep gray (intermediate between slate-gray and mouse 

 gray); malar region, chin, throat, chest, and sides decidedly paler 

 gray (olive-gray to light drab-gray), the flanks tinged, more or less, 

 with olive; abdomen, anal region, and under tail-covertg white, but the 

 white shading gradually into the gray anteriorly and laterally; lores 

 and anterior portion of chin blackish; back and scapulars cinnamon- 

 rufous, sometimes tinged or mixed with olive; rump olive or hair 

 brown, passing into a more grayish hue on upper tail-coverts; smaller 

 wing-coverts mouse gray; outer webs of greater coverts and tertials 

 cinnamon-rufous or russet; secondaries, primaries, and eight middle 

 rectrices dusky edged with gray, these edgings narrower, more sharply 

 defined, and much lighter gray on primaries; outermost rectrix mostly 

 white, the inner web, however, with more than basal half dusky; 

 second with less than terminal half of inner web white; third usually 

 without any white; maxilla black, mandible yellowish; iiis bright 

 yellow; tarsi pale yellowish brown, toes darker. 



Adults in winter. — Similar to summer adults, but plumage softer 

 and colors rather deeper. 



Young in first winter. — Similar to adults, but paler below, the throat 

 almost white, the pale gray of chest and sides faintly tinged with pale 

 buff jr olive, the rump more olivaceous, and the rusty color of back less 

 sharply defined against the gray of the hindneok. 



Young. — Much like adults, but pileum, hmdneck, back, throat, 

 chest, sides, and flanks streaked with blackish, the gray of head and 

 neck duller, more olivaceous, that of the under parts much paler or 



