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Eye-Color of Juncos: A Correction

Authors
Allan Brooks
Journal
Condor
Volume
16
Issue
4 (July-August)
Year
1914
Pages
183
Section
From Field and Study
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Eye-color of Juncos: a Correction

I find the birds I called Junco phoeonotus dorsalis, on page 116 of the May CONDOR, are Junco phoeonotus caniceps.

We only had the 1910 Check-List, and Bailey's Hand-Book, with us in the field, and could not decide which subspecies the brown-eyed bird was, eventually deciding on dorsalis largely on account of the range as given in the Check-List.

Ridgway's Manual, however, proves all my birds to be caniceps, which he rightly gives full specific rank.

ALLAN BROOKS

Okanagan Landing, B. C.

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