Western Bird Guide: Birds of the Rockies and West to the Pacific

by Charles K. Reed

SLATE-COLORED JUNCO.

567. Junco hyemalis. 6 inches.

This is common “Black and White Snowbird” of the east, and is the same as above, but darker and does not have any white wing bars. They breed mostly north of the United States, nesting on the ground, often under some boulder, making their nest of roots and grass in which they lay four greenish white eggs, spotted with brown about the larger end (not illustrated).