[115] From the fact that this form is not found in any part of Alaska, nor, indeed, north of California, it is probable that the localities of anthinus and alaudinus were transposed in Bonaparte’s original descriptions.
[116] Hybrid between oregonus and caniceps, = “annectens,” Baird, Geol. Surv. Cal. Orn. I, p. 564.
Char. Pinkish sides and convex outline to ash of breast, as in oregonus, with the bright rufous back and ashy head, with black lores of caniceps; a tendency in the rufous of back to tinge the wings, as in oregonus. Hab. Southern Rocky Mountains. (Fort Whipple, Arizona, Coues; Fort Bridger, Wyoming, Drexler; Fort Burgwyn, Mountains of Colorado, Aiken.)
[117] Hybrid between hyemalis and oregonus.
Char. Plumbeous back of hyemalis, with pinkish sides of oregonus; or else reddish back of oregonus and plumbeous sides of hyemalis, or colors mixed both above and below. Hab. Sun River, Dakota; McKenzie River District? Fort Whipple, Arizona; and Fort Bridger, Wyoming.
[118] Hybrid between caniceps and cinereus, = “dorsalis,” Henry, Pr. Phil. Ac. 1858, 117; Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 467.
Char. Rufous restricted to interscapular region, as in the former, with black upper mandible, and pale ash throat of the latter. Hab. Fort Thorn, New Mexico.
[119] Junco cinereus, Cabanis, Mexican Snowbird. Fringilla cinerea, Sw. Syn. Birds Mex. in Phil. Mag. I, 1827, 435. Junco cinereus, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1850, 134.—Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 465. “Fringilla rufidorsis, Licht.,” Bonaparte; probably a catalogue name. Junco phæonotus, Wagler, Isis, 1831, 526.—Bonap. Comptes Rendus, XXXVII, 518.
Sp. Char. Ash-color above; with a broad quadrate interscapular patch of rufous-chestnut, this extending over the wing-coverts and inner secondaries. Beneath paler ash, lighter in middle region below, but without distinct line of demarcation. Lores and anterior region of eye dusky; in decided contrast. Outer three tail-feathers white, but dusky at base and on outer web at end; the amount increasing internally. Upper bill entirely black; lower yellow. Length, 6.40; height of bill, .25; culmen, .46. Hab. Table-lands of Mexico.
[120] Junco alticola, Salvin, Guatemalan Snowbird. Junco alticola, Salvin, P. Z. S. 1863, 189 (Highlands, Guatemala).—Ib.. Ibis, 1866, 193.