Note 119 — Family FRINGILLIDÆ.—The Finches. (continued 5)
Reading edition
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.