. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush;. Birds; Birds. 132 KEY AND DESCRIPTION singer, especially of the early evening, and its notes have great variety. Length, 5|; wing, 2| (2§-2f) ; tail, 2|; culmen, f. Eastern United States and southern Canada ; breeding from South Carolina northward, and wintering from Illinois and Virginia southward. 35. Slate-colored Junco (567. Junco hyemhlis). — A small, slate-colored, winter bird, with white belly and under tail feathers, and flesh-colored bill. The slate color of th
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush;. Birds; Birds. 132 KEY AND DESCRIPTION singer, especially of the early evening, and its notes have great variety. Length, 5|; wing, 2| (2§-2f) ; tail, 2|; culmen, f. Eastern United States and southern Canada ; breeding from South Carolina northward, and wintering from Illinois and Virginia southward. 35. Slate-colored Junco (567. Junco hyemhlis). — A small, slate-colored, winter bird, with white belly and under tail feathers, and flesh-colored bill. The slate color of the breast abruptly changes to the white of the belly. This very common and easily recognized bird of the snowy season is usually found in flocks of twenty to thirty in the fields and among the bushes. When it flies, the white of the under tail feathers is readily seen. (Junco; Snow-bird; Black Snow-bird.) Length, 6 ; wing, 3 (2J-3}-) ; tail, 2|; tarsus, Slate-colored Junco f; culmen, \ nearly. North America mainly east of the Rocky Mountains; breeding among the higher parts of the Alleghanies and other mountains northward, and wintering throughout. The Carolina Junco (567e. J. h. carolinensis) differs in having a darker colored bill and the back without any show of brownish, which can always be noticed on the common Junco. It is a common resident variety of the mountains of Virginia, North and South Carolina. A much browner variety than even the common one is Shufeldt's Junco (567b. ./. h. shii- feldti). In this the sides are almost a wine-brown. This belongs to the region from the Rocky Mountains westward, but has been seen in a num- ber of the Eastern States, Massachusetts, Maryland, etc. The White- winged Junco (566. Junco alkeni) has two very distinct white wing bars. It breeds in the Black Hills, and in winter is found south to 36. Bachman's Sparrow (575a. Peuccea cestivctlis bachmdnii). —A streaky, brownish-red-backed sparrow with the lower parts grayish-bu
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