370 FRINGILLIDZ. 
winter visitor to the highlands. Our specimens are from the valley of Mexico. It has 
been noticed at Guanajuato‘ and near the Rio Grande frontier”; but its name is absent 
from Sallé’s and Boucard’s lists, as well as from those of De Oca, Sumichrast, and 
Grayson. 
In North America it breeds in the Wahsatch Mountains and elsewhere, and plenti- 
fully in Labrador°®®. Its nest is placed on the ground, and is usually made of moss and 
grasses, and lined with fine fibrous roots. The eggs havea light greenish-white ground- 
colour, and are thickly marked, chiefly about the larger end, with reddish-brown and 
light purple-brown spots °®. 
2. Zonotrichia intermedia. 
Zonotrichia leucophrys, var. intermedia, Ridgw. Bull. Essex Inst. v. p. 198°. 
Zonotrichia intermedia, Ridgw. Field & Forest, 1877, p. 198°. 
_ Zonotrichia leucophrys, var. gambeli, Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. B. i. p. 569°; Lawr. Mem. 
Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 277* (nec Fringilla gambeli, Nutt.). 
Sp. precedenti valde affinis sed loris et superciliis albidis confluentibus, colore nigro capitis lateribus haud ocu- 
lorum ambitum attingente. 
Hab. Norta America, Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean 3.—Mexico, Mazatlan 
(Grayson *). 
We believe that it is to this bird that Mr. Lawrence refers Grayson’s Mazatlan speci- 
mens, under the name Z. leucophrys, var. gambeli*, but we have no Mexican examples 
to confirm this opinion. The true Z. gambeli is now justly considered a distinct species 
by Dr. Coues, the differences between it and Z. leucophrys and the present bird being 
sufficiently definite. 
That Z. intermedia is very closely allied to Z. leucophrys is obvious, but the slight 
distinction in the arrangement of the markings about the eye is not difficult to 
recognize ; and by this character alone adult specimens of Z. leucophrys and Z. inter- 
media can be determined without hesitation. 
The present bird is said to be very common between the Rocky Mountains and the 
Pacific coast from the Mexican frontier to the Arctic Ocean. It breeds in the north 
and in the higher mountain-ranges of the southern part of its range °. 
Its presence at Mazatlan is merely recorded, without comment +. 
3. Zonotrichia pileata. 
Emberiza pileata, Bodd. Tabl. Pl. Enl. p. 237. 
Zonotrichia pileata, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1858, pp. 454°, 552°; 1859, p. 140*; 1860, p. 76°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 
1859, p. 18°; P. Z. 8.1879, pp.507’, 606°; Cab. J. f. Orn. 1860, p. 411°; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. 
N. Y. ix. p. 103”; Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 301”; Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 190”; Cat. 
Strick]. Coll. p. 230”; Ibis, 1885, p. 216%; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 828”; Salv. & Godm. 
Ibis, 1879, p. 200*°; 1880, p. 122”; Tacz. Orn. Pér, iii. p. 45°. 
Supra brunnescens, uropygio immaculato, dorso medio nigro striato, alis et cauda fusco-nigricantibus brunne 
