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. 
Young in first winter: Plumage softer, and duller, feathers edged largely with brown. 
Comparisons. —The Montana Junco is similar to the Shufeldt but has the head, 
neck, and chest slate-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 Gallinas 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¬ 
man); Las Vegas Hot Springs, December 6, 1882 (Batchelder); Arroyo Seco, 8,000 
feet, February 6, 1904 (Surber). 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 Juncos of this subspecies were seen in the 
Gallinas Mountains early in October, 1904, in the flocks of the Gray¬ 
headed (i caniceps ). The stomach of one taken was full of seeds, largely 
pigweed. 
PINK-SIDED JUNCO: Junco meamsi Ridgway 
Description. — Male: Length (skins) 5.7-6.1 inches, wing 3.1-3.3, tail 2.6-2.9, 
bill .4. Female: Length (skins) 5.4-5.9 inches, wing 2.9-3.4, tail 2.6-2.9, bill .4. 
Adult male: Head , neck , and chest gray, slaty above, pale gray below; lores blackish 
slate, hack and scapulars brown; rump and upper tail coverts gray, tail with two outer 
pairs of feathers mostly white, the third largely white; median underparts white, 
sides and flanks broadly pinkish; bill flesh-color. Adult 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 buffy or grayish ground. 
Range. —Breeds in Boreal region from southwestern Saskatchewan to northern 
Wyoming, southern Idaho and northeastern Utah; winters south through Wyoming, 
Utah, and Colorado to western Texas, southern New Mexico, Arizona, and north¬ 
eastern Sonora. 
State Records. —In western and northwestern New Mexico, the Pink-sided 
Junco is one of the common winter birds. It arrives in October—Chuska Moun¬ 
tains, 8,000 feet, October 1, 1908 (Birdseye)—and is abundant in the northwestern 
part of the State. It ranges at least as far south as the Mogollon Mountains, where 
it was noted, October 26, 1906, at 8,500 feet on Willow Creek; at Cliff, 5,000 feet, 
November 7-9, 1906 (Bailey); and Silver-City, 6,000 feet, all winter (Marsh). To 
the 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, 1882 (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. 
