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White-crowned Sparrow 



white wing bars and no yellow on head or wings. It is found 

 in the eastern United States only during the colder months ; 

 its singing is remarkable, 

 resembling that of the 

 white-throated sparrow. 



Length, 6|; wing, 3 J (3-3}); 

 tail, 3 ; tarsus, nearly 1 ; cul- 

 men, |. North America ; breed- 

 ing north of the United States, 

 and wintering from Virginia to 

 Mexico. 



30. White-throated Spar- 

 row (558. Zonotrldiia albl- 

 cdllis). — A common, social, 

 large, streaky, brownish 

 sparrow, with a distinctly 

 striped head and a square white patch on the throat, dis- 

 tinct from the grayish under parts. The head has two black 

 and three white stripes, two of the white stripes yellow in 

 front, and there are two distinct white wing bars. This 

 beautiful sparroAV is especially abundant in small flocks, 



in the autumn and 

 winter, in the under- 

 growth of the woods 

 and along the bushy 

 fence rows. It is a 

 good singer and says 

 very distinctly pecv- 

 hody, peabody, whence 

 it derives one of its 

 names. (Peabody 

 White-throated Sparrow Bird.) 



Length, 6| ; wing, 2J (2f-3^) ; tail, Z\; tarsus, | ; culmen, f. North 

 America, from the Plains eastward ; breeding along the northern border 

 of the United States northward, and wintering from southern New Eng- 

 land southward to the Gulf. The Golden-crowned Sparrow (557. Zono- 

 trichia coronata), a Pacific coast species with a back like the white-throated 

 apgar's birds. — 9 



