often remained for hours about the house and garden, and 
the seeds disappeared rapidly. 
The position of the shelf favored observations. I was 
soon informed that there was much difference in the plumage 
of individual Juncos: — Was there more than one kind about? 
At length, while at home on a Sunday morning, I was called 
to look at a bird that was “different.” And sure enough, 
though I had been very skeptical, it was! Its sides were 
unmistakably pinkish brown; the blackish slate color on 
the breast extended farther downward, terminating in a full 
curve instead of more or less transversely as usual in our 
common species; and the head and neck were of a blacker 
hue; though this was not appreciable save under exceptionally 
favorable circumstances. 
After watching it for several days, and becoming convinced 
of its distinctness from our Eastern species, I visited the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge and examined 
a series of typical specimens of Western forms of Juncos 
selected by Mr. Outram Bangs, but was still unable to decide 
with certainty which one it represented. Mr. Bangs advised 
taking it, in order to make sure of its identity and establish 
the record, saying also that there was but one chance in a 
thousand of it ever getting back to its mates. This was 
accordingly done (January 28, 1919). The specimen was 
identified by Mr. Bangs as a typical male of Coues’ Junco, 
Junco oregonus couesi (Dwight), from the far West, and was 
presented to the Boston Society of Natural History where it 
is now in the mounted collection of New England birds. 
This was the only specimen seen which could be positively 
identified out-of-hand as of extra-limital origin, though hopes 
were raised now and then by brown tinted female or immature 
. birds. During the winter of 1919-1920 a sharp watch was 
kept but without further reward in this particular. Juncos 
were fewer in number and though numerous at times were 
quite overshadowed in interest by the visits of a dozen or 
more Purple Finches and a flock of about twenty Evening 
Grosbeaks whose size and beauty made amends for their 
voracious appetites and pugnacious ways. Arriving at dawn 
and making several visits in the course of the day, hungrily 
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