FRINGILLIDjE: FINCHES, BUNTINGS, SPAEMOWS, ETC. 379 
J. h, annec'tens. (Lat. annectens, annexing ; ad, to, and necto, I join.) Pink-sided Sxow- 
liiKD. Characters in general of J. caniceps (No. 265) ; differs by more abrupt definition of the 
white belly from the ashy breast, and pinkish sides : by so much resembling oregonus. Southern 
liocky Mt. region, from Wyoming, and especially Colorado, to New Mexico and Arizona; 
migrating latitudinally with season, but chiefly working up and down the mountains. 
J. h. ca'niceps. (Lat. caniceps, gray-headed ; canus, gray.) Gray-headed Snow-bird. 
Clear ash, purest on head, paler below, and fading gradually into white on belly; interscapulars 
abruptly, definitely, chestnut or rusty-brown ; lores blackish ; bill fiesh-color ; iris brown ; no 
fulvous wash on sides ; no chestnut on wings in the typical form, llather larger than hiemalis; 
length about 7.00 ; wing over 3.00 ; tail about 3.00. The sexual and seasonal changes are not 
so well marked as in the heavily-colored hiemalis and oregonus, but parallel as far as they go. 
Very young birds are streaked, like all the rest. Rocky Mts. of the U. S., from Wyoming 
southward ; Wahsatch and Uintah Mts. Five or six of the styles of Junco, including /. 
hiemalis, occur together in the mountains of Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. 
J. h. dorsalis. (Lat. dorsalis, pertaining to the back ; dorsum, the back.) Red-backed 
Snow-bird. Characters in general of J. caniceps; but with the bill black and yellow, as in 
cinereus. Mountains of New Mexico and Arizona. 
J. h. cine'reus. (Lat. cinereus, ashy; cinis, ashes.) Cinereous Snow-bird. Mexican 
Snow-bird. Like J. caniceps. Under parts paler ash, fading sooner and more insensibly into 
white ; chestnut of back intense, and spreading over the wing-coverts and inner secondaries ; 
upper mandible black ; lower yellow ; iris yellow. Mexico to the U. S. border. Mt. Graham, 
Arizona. 
SPIZEL'LA. (Ital. diminutive form of Lat. spiza, from Gr. 
(TTTL^a, a finch.) CHIPPING SPARROWS. Embracing small ^^^^^ 
species, 5-6 inches long, with the long, broad-feathered, forked ^ , , 
tail about equalling (more or less) the rather pointed wings ; 
with no yellowish anywhere, and no streaks on the under parts ^ 
ivhen adult; interscapular region distinctly streaked; rump plain ' ' ■ 
(except atrigidaris) ; young fully streaked. Point of wing formed "^^sS- ~ 
by 2d to 4th or 5th quill ; 1st usually between 5th and 6th. Bill 
small, conic. Tarsus little if any longer than middle toe and fig. 237. — CLippy's head, as 
claw; lateral toes about equal. Tail-feathers widening a little large as life. (E.G.) 
to broadly oval tips. Numerous species. Eastern and Western, inhabiting shrubbery ; three 
of them familiar Eastern birds. 
Analysis of Species. 
Eastern and Western species with the crown of the adult chestnut. 
Bill black and yellow ; forehead not black ; two distinct white wing-bars ; dark spot on breast ; large : 
about 6.00 long montlcola 268 
Bill and forehead black ; wing-bars not conspicuous ; breast ashy-white, without spot ; length under G. 
Tail decidedly shorter than wing domestica 269, 270 
Bill brownish-red; forehead not black; wing-bars indistinct; breast buffy white, without spot. 
Length under 6.00 agrestis 271 
Western species, with the crown not chestnut, and streaked like the back. 
Crown divided by a median stripe, and its streaks separated from those of the back by an ashy 
interval. . Tail equal to wings pallida 272 
Crown not evidently divided, and streaked continuously with the back. Tail longer. . . . hreiceri 272 
Western species, with the crown of the adult dark ash. Face and throat black. Tail decidedly longer 
than wing atrigularis 274 
S. monti'cola. (Lat. monticola, inhabiting mountains ; mons, montis, a mountain ; colo, I 
dwell ; incola, an inhabitant.) Tree Sparrow. Winter Chip-bird. Bill black above, 
yellow below ; legs brown ; toes black. No black on forehead ; crown chestnut (in winter 
specimens the feathers usually skirted with gray), bordered by a grayish -white superciliary and 
loral line ; a postocular chestnut stripe over auriculars, and some vague chestnut marks on 
