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almost the only ones who ever seek the neighborhood of man, 
the Snow-birds are certainly entitled to our affections; and 
their liveliness cannot but afford pleasure, when brought di- 
rectly in contrast at our very doors, so to speak, with the cold 
and storms of midwinter. 
Norre.— According to Mr. William Brewster (Bulletin, Nutt- 
all Ornithological Club, April, 1876, Vol. I, No. 1) a female 
Oregon Snow-bird (Junco Oregonus) was ‘‘ shot in Watertown, 
Mass., March 25th, 1874.” ¢ black; @ browner. Lower 
breast, etc., white. Back and wing-edgings, ‘‘ dull reddish- 
brown ;” sides paler. 
XVIII. PIPILO 
(A) ERyrHRoprHaLMmus. Towhee Bunting. ‘“‘Towhee.” “Che- 
wink.” “Ground Robin.” ‘Marsh Robin.” “Swamp Robin.” ® 
(A common summer-resident in Massachusetts, but not com- 
mon to the northward of this State.) 
Fig. 10. Towhee Bunting (3). 
(a). 8-83 inches long. (Iris, in the summer-season red, 
except in the young ; otherwise, white or nearly so.) ¢, black; 
lower breast, belly, and nearly the whole of the outermost tail- 
feathers, white. A conspicuous patch on the side of the breast, 
chestnut (with paler traces of it behind). Wings and tail 
® This name has been applied indiscriminately to several different birds. 
