PASSERES FRINGILLIDAE Z. VAB. INTERMEDIA. 



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especially the bushes and thickets of the streams. I believe t 1 >y winter in 

 greater or less numbers in Southern Arizona. 



ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS (Forst.), var. INTERMEDIA, Ridgw. 



Ridgway's Sparrow. 



PLATE VII, FIGS. 1, 2. 



Zonotricliia leucophrys var. intermedia, RIDG., MS. COUER, Check-List, app., No. 

 I83b. YARROW & HENSHAW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 

 1874, 14. HENSHAW, An. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., xii, 1874, 6. Id, Au. List 

 Birds Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 44. Id., Rep. Oru. Specs., 1873, 

 Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 62, 112. COUES, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1874, 156. 



Zonotrichia leucoplirys var. gambcli, COUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 145 (in part). 



Zonotrichia intermedia, YARROW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1871, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 35. 



Zonotrichia gambelii, BD., Ives' Col. Exped., 1857-58, pt. iv, 6. Id., Birds N. A., 

 1858, 460. LI., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 15. 

 HEERM., P. R. R. Rep., x, pt. ii, 1859, 48 (New Mexico ; Texas). KEN- 

 NERLY, P. R. R, Rep., Whipple's Route, 1859, 28. HENRY, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 107 (New Mexico). COOP. & SUCKL., P. R. R. Rep., 

 xii, pt. ii, 1860, 201. HAYD., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., xii, 1862, 166. COUES, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila,, 1866, 84 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.). Id., ib., 1868, 

 83. STEV., U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1870, 464. ALLEN, Bui. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., 1872, 177 (Wahsatch Mountains). HOLD., Proc. Bost, Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., xv, 1872, 199. MERRIAM, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 681. 



Under the variety intermedia, Mr. Ridgway distinguishes the Middle 

 Province form from the true gambeli as restricted to the Pacific coast. This 

 variety is to be known by its lighter coloration and the chestnut-brown 

 dorsal streaks instead of black. Up to the 10th of May, a few individuals 

 about Denver were seen accompanying flocks of the preceding; but they 



