junco hyemails. 
D#aoriptions of First Plumage of Cer¬ 
tain North Am. Bbs. Wm. Brewster. 
67. Junco hyemalis. 
First plumage : male. Upper parts dark brown, everywhere suffused 
with ashy, but most appreciably so upon the top and sides of head ; every 
feather marked obscurely with dull black. Greater and middle coverts 
tipped with reddish-brown, producing two rather indistinct wing-bands. 
Throat, and breast anteriorly, ferruginous-ashy, nearly obscured by 
streakings of dull black. Rest of under parts dull ashy-white, with a 
faint huffy tinge, spotted everywhere excepting on the abdomen with 
dusky. Crissum pale fulvous. From a specimen in my cabinet collected 
at Upton, Me., August 25, 1874. Considerable variation is exhibited by 
the series of specimens in first plumage before me. Some have the upper 
parts dull reddish-brown, with the streakings but faintly indicated, and 
scarcely any appreciable ashy either above or beneath. The first plumage 
is worn by the young of this species for an unusually long time. 
BullN.O.Q. 3, July, 1878. p. /£0-/Z/* 
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