Junco hyemalis. Descriptions of First Plumage of Certain North Am. Bbs. Wm.Brewster, 67. Junco hyemalis. First plumage : male. Upper parts dark brown, everywhere suffused with ashy, but most appreciably so upon the top and sides of head ; every feather marked obscurely with dull black. Greater and middle coverts tipped with reddish-brown, producing two rather indistinct wing-bands. Throat, and breast anteriorly, ferruginous-ashy, nearly obscured by streakings of dull black. Rest of under parts dull ashy-white, with a faint buffy tinge, spotted everywhere excepting on the abdomen with dusky. Crissum pale fulvous. From a specimen in my cabinet collected at Upton, Me., August 25, 1874. Considerable variation is exhibited by the series of specimens in first plumage before me. Some have the upper parts dull reddish-brown, with the streakings but faintly indicated, and scarcely any appreciable ashy either above or beneath. The first plumage is worn by the young of this species for an unusually long time. Bull. N.O.C. 3, July, 1878. p. 120-121. MAINE, (L. Umbagog.) 1855- Oct. 9_ Numerous up to Oct. 21st, after which they diminished rapidly. On several still warm days I heard the so singing in that peculiar low, soft, warbling strain heard in early spring. On the 21st as many as a dozen were all warbling at once in the top of a low spruce in the woods. // Junco hyemalis 41