The Slate-colored Junco ( Junco hyemalis hyemalis) breeding near 
Boston. — On June 4, 1918, Miss Agnes J. Galligan discovered a pair of 
Juncos ( Junco hyemalis hyemalis) in some rocky oak woods in West 
Roxbury, Mass. I visited the place with her on June 7 and found the male 
bird with one young one in the speckled juvenal plumage, pretty well 
fledged and able to fly. We did not see the female, and we saw but the 
one young bird, though I thought at one time that I heard another calling. 
The note of the young was a trisyllabic zi-zi-zi. On July 1, Miss Galligan 
found the pair in another locality, about an eighth of a mile away, feeding 
a young bird which was evidently of a second brood, as it could not fly 
and was apparently just out of the nest. I visited the spot July 3, but 
saw nothing of the birds in the limited time at my disposal, though I heard 
the male singing. The breeding of the Junco in eastern Massachusetts 
is sufficiently uncommon to make the occurrence seem worth recording, 
especially as it is evident that two broods were hatched. West Roxbury 
is a part of Boston, and I know of no previous record of the breeding of this 
species within the limits of that city. — Fkancis H. Allen, West Roxbury, 
Mass. ^ 
