FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC.: PINK-SIDED JUNCO 739 
mainly white; bill flesh-colored. Adult female: Similar but usually duller, and the 
gray averaging lighter, the brown of back often extending up over back of head. 
Yfing iff first winter: Plumage softer, and duller, feathers edged largely with brown. 
Comparisons.—T he Montana Junco is similar to the Shufeldt but has the head, 
neck, and chest .date-color instead of black. (See p. 737.) 
Range. —Breeds in Canadian Zone from southern Alberta south to northwestern 
Montana, northern Idaho, and central northern Utah; winters south to Arizona, 
New Mexico. Chihuahua, and Texas; casually east to Kansas, Massachusetts, and 
Maryland. 
State Records. —The present knowledge of the range of the Montana Junco in 
New Mexico is rather limited. Its distribution in the State is undoubtedly more 
extensive than the few notes now available would indicate. It has been taken at 
Lake Burford, 7,600 feet, September 27, 1904, and Galhnas Mountains, October 9, 
1904 (Gaut); Mogollon Mountains, 8,300-8,500 feet, October 18-26, 1906 (Bailey); 
Gila, 4.000 feet, October 10, 1908, Kingston, 9,000 feet, November 4, 1908 (Gold- 
naan); Las Vegas Ilot Springs. December 6, 1882 (Batchclder); Arroyo Seen, 8,000 
feet, February G, 1904 (Surfer). In most of these cases only a few birds were seen, 
whereas it seems probable that quite a share of the individuals of the subspecies 
spend the winter in New Mexico.—W. W. Cooke. 
General Habits.—A few Jtincos of this subspecies were seen in the 
Gallinas Mountains early in October, 1904, in the flocks of the Gray¬ 
headed (caniceps). The stomach of one taken was full of seeds, largely 
pigv<eii 
PUOC-SZDf O JUNCO: Junco mefimsi Ridgway 
1 h 5 7 6.1 inches, wing 3 1 3.3, mi! 2.6 2.9, 
bill 1 emiT' : k rt 5 t- 5.9 inches, wing 2 9-3.4, tail 2.G-2.9, bill .4. 
AduU »,•<•£>•; Jii,i *. /ark, nn*l ' omy, *ini •; ■ibo\e, pale gray below; lores blackish 
slate, buck awl >oi-,ud‘ < .< broan, rump and upper tail coverts gray, tail with two outer 
pairs of feathers mostly white, the third largely white; median undeiparts white, 
sides and flanks broadly pinkish; bill flesh-color. Adidl female: Similar, but colors 
averaging less pure, the head more brownish, the sides less pinkish, and, usually, 
second tail feather largely dusky. Young in juvenal plumage: Head and back 
brownish, broadly streaked with blackish, wings with two brownish buff bars; 
underparts streaked, on huffy or grayish ground. * 
Ran.; Broods in Boreal region from southwestern Saskatchewan to northern 
W y t: i:- southern Idaho and northeastern Utah; winters south through Wyoming, 
I :\]; ■ : i dorado to western Texas, southern New Mexico, Arizona, and north¬ 
east l 1 *-e:ora. 
v >: \; t. ftords. In western and northwestern New Mexico, the Pink-sided 
.i.u:- s of the common winter birds. It arrives in October—Chuska Moun- 
i js. s.oou f c r, October 1, 1908 (Birdseye)—and is abundant in the northwestern 
' 5 ‘ r f • >' »Sfate. 11 ranges at least as far south as the Mogollon Mountains, where 
:{ -* 1 noted, October 26, 1906, at 8,500 feet on Willow Creek; at Cliff, 5,000 feet, 
.November 7-9, 1900 (Bailey); and Silver-City, 6,000 feet, all winter (Marsh). To 
. !jc northeastward it was common along the Red River, Colfax County, October 21, 
1913 (Kalmbach); was taken at Arroyo Seco, 8,000 feet, February 7, 1904 (Surber); 
and at Las Vegas, December 6-22, 1S82 (Batchelder). 
In the spring migration, the last seen at Silver City in 1884, was on March 25 
(Marsh); at Carlisle, in 1890, on April 10 (Barrell).— W. W. Cooke. 
