5(30 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



CoMsfON Characters. Feathers of interscapular region blackish centrally, pass- 

 ing into riifous-brown and edged with paler. Rump and upper tail-coverts 

 uniform olivaceous-ashy brown. Two white bands on the wings ; the tertials 

 edged with rufous. Beneatli without streaks. Head aljove marked with black, 

 and generally with white. Cheeks plumbeous. 



A. Black of the crown divided by a median light stripe. .lugulum a.shy. 



a. Throat ashy, uniform with the breast 



1. Z. leucophrys. Median stripe of the crown white. A Mack 

 stripe from behind the eye, and a white superciliary stripe. 



a. A black stripe from the eye to forehead, across lore. Hab. 

 Eastern Province of North America, west throughout Rocky 

 Mountains; Cape St. Lucas in winter . . var. leucoplirys . 

 /3. No black streak in front of eye, the lores being wholly 

 ash}-. Hab. Western Province North America, east to Rocky 

 Mountains \in\ yam b el i. 



2. Z. coronata. Median stripe of crown j'ellow foi- anterior and 

 ash for postciior half. Black of crown coming down to eye and 

 ear coverts, leaving no light superciliary stripe. Hab. Pacific 

 Province of North America ; accidental east of Sierra Nevada. 



b. Throat pure white, in sharp contrast with the dark ash of cheeks 

 and jugnluni. 



3. Z. albicoUis. Median stripe of crown white. A light super- 

 ciliary stripe, yellow anterior to the eye, and white behind it ; a 

 black streak along upper edge of ear-coverts. Hab. Eastern Prov- 

 ince of North America. 



B. Black of the crown not divided, but continuou.s. Jugulum white. 



4. Z. querula. Lores, forepart of cheeks, with the chin and 

 throat, deep black; wliole side of head behind the eye, ashy. 

 Lower parts pure white. Hab. Missouri Plains. 



Zonotrichia levicophrys, Sw.\inson. 



WHITE-CEOWNED SPARKOW. 



KmbervM leucophrys, Forster, Philos. Trans. I, XII, 177:2, 382, 426. — Gmf.lix, S}'st Nat. 

 I, 1788, 874. — Wilson', Am. Orti. IV, 1811, 49, pi. .xxxi, f. 4. FriiufiUn (Zonotrichia) 

 leucophrys, Sw. F. B. Am. II, 1831, 255. Zonotrichia leucojjhrys. Box. List, 1838. — 

 Ib. Consp. 1850, 478.— BAiitn, Birds N. Am. 1858, 4.18, pi. Ixix, f. 2. — CotJE.s, 

 P. A: N. S. 1861, 224. — Mayxard, Birds E. Mass. 1870, 118. —Cooper, Orii. Cal. I, 

 196. —Samuels, 309. Fringilla. leucophrys, AuD. Orii. Biog, II, 1834, 88 ; V, 515, 

 pi. cxlv. — Ib. Syn. 1839, 121. — Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 1.57, pi. cxcii. ? Spizella 

 maxima, Bonap. Conip. E«nd. 1853 (either this or Z. gambeli). White-crowned 

 Sparrow, Pennant. 



Figured in Buffon, Ois. IV, 192, pi. ccxxiii, f. 2. Winter. 



Sp. Char. Head above, upper half of loral region from the hill, and a n.arrow line 

 through and behind the eye to the occiput, black ; a longitudinal patch in the middle of 

 the crown, and a short line from above the anterior corner of the eye, the two confluent 

 on the occiput, white. Sides of the head, forepart of brc^ast, and lower neck all round, 

 pale ash, lightest beneath, and shading insensiblj' into the whitish of the belly and chin ; 

 sides of belly and under tail-coverts tinged with yellowish-brown. Interscapular region 

 streaked broadly with dark chestnut-brownish. Edges of the tertiaries brownish-chestnut. 

 Two white bjinds on the wing. 



