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Range (Mountains of Virginia North)

Mountains of Virginia, North and South Carolina.

This is a common and apparently permanent resident species in the higher parts of the southern Alleghanies.

SHUFELDT'S JUNCO (567b. Junco hyemalis shufeldti), a western species, has been recorded from Illinois, District of Columbia, Maryland, and Massachusetts. It resembles J. hyemalis, but has the back browner and the sides brownish vinaceous. 575. Peucæa æstivalis (Licht.). PINE-WOODS SPARROW. Ad.- Upper parts light chestnut, more or less streaked with black and margined with gray; a grayish line over the eye; bend of the wing yellow; tailfeathers narrow, grayish fuscous, the outer ones much the shortest; breast and sides washed with pale brownish ash; breast sometimes with a few black spots; middle of the belly white. L., 5.80; W., 2:50; T., 2.50; B., 45.