270 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



552. Chondestes grammacus (SAY). 



Lark Sparrow. 



Fringilla grammaca SAY, LOXG'S Exp II. 1823, 139. 

 Chondestes grammaca BONAP. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 32. 



[B 344, part, C \S6, part, R 204, C 281, part."] 



HAB. Mississippi Valley region, from Ohio, Illinois, and Michigan to 

 the Plains, south to Eastern Texas. Accidental near the Atlantic coast 

 (Massachusetts, Long Island, New Jersey, and Washington, D. C.). 



552 a. Chondestes grammacns strigatus (SWAINS.). 



Western Lark Sparrow. 



Chondestes strigatus SWAINS. Phil. Ma. I. 1827, 435. 

 Chondestes grammaca striata RIDGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. III. Aug. 

 24, 1880, 179. 



[B 344, part, C 186, /<?;-/, R 204 a, C 281, part.~\ 



HAB. Western United States, from the Plains to the Pacific coast, 

 south into Mexico. 



GENUS ZONOTRICHIA SWAINSON. 



Zonotrichia SWATNS. F. B. A. II. 1831, 493. Type, by elimination, 

 Emberiza leucophrys FOKST. 



553. Zonotrichia querula (NUTT.). 



Harris's Sparrow. 



Fringilla querula NUTT. Man. I. 2cl ed. 1840, 555. 

 Zonotrichia querula GAMB. Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 2d ser. I. 

 1847, 51. 



[B 348, C 185, R 205, C 280.] 



HAR. Middle United States, from Missouri and Iowa west to Mid- 

 dle Kansas and Dakota, and from Texas north to the Red River of 

 the North. 



554. Zonotrichia leucophrys (FORST.). 



White-crowned Sparrow. 



Emberiza leucophrys FORST. Philos. Trans. LXII. 1772, 382, 426. 

 Z{onotrichia~\ leucophrys SWAINS. F. B. A. II. 1831, 493. 



