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Si-i.,1897, 18 (San Clemente I., California, Mar. 31); Pub. ii, 1898, 37 (Los 

 Anseles Co., California, up to 5,000 ft.; Sept. 2-4 to May 9). 



[Zonotrichi(t'\ coronata Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 145. 



Z.\_onofric]ria^ coronata Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 108 (Racine, Wis- 

 consin, 1 spec. Apr., 1858).— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 383.— 

 KiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 416. 



FringUla aurocapllla Nuttall, Man. Orn. I". S. and Canada, 2d ed., i, 1840, 555 

 (near Fort Vancouver, Washington; coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. ). 



Zonotrichia aurocapilla Boxm'arte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 32. — Gambel, 

 Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1847, 51 (California). ^Newberry, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., vi, pt. iv, 1857, 88 (San Francisco, California, winter). 



Z.[onotricJtla'] aaricapilla Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 373. 



IZonotricJiia'] aurlcapUla Boxaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 478 (California). 



Z.{pnotrichia'] ^«iapa(7oe?vs/.^ Bonaparte, Consp. A v., i, July 15, 1850, 479(" Gala- 

 pagos," i. e., California; Paris Mus.; see Salvin, Trans. Zool. Soc.Lond.,ix, 

 1876,491). 



[Zonotrlclila^ gaJapagoenxi.'^ (tray. Hand-list, ii, 1870, 94, no. 7380. 



ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS LEUCOPHRYS (Forster). 

 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW. 



Adult iiudt. — Pileuui with two broad lateral bands of deep black, 

 inclosing a median one of white or gra} ish white of approximately 

 equal width; black of forehead descending over upper half, or more, 

 of lores and extending posteriorly to the anterior angle of the eye; a 

 white or grayish white supra-auricular stripe, extending anteriorly 

 above the eye nearly or quite as far as its anterior angle; below this a 

 narrow postocular stripe or streak of black, terminating on side of 

 nape; hindneck, sides of neck, and auriculars plain gray, the first 

 sometimes obsoletely streaked with brown; back and scapulars light 

 gray, or brownish gray, broadly streaked with chestnut-brown or 

 Vandyke brown; rump and upper tail-coverts plain hair brown; tail 

 dark hair brown with paler edgings; middle and greater wing-coverts 

 dusk}^ grayish brown, edged with pale hair brown and tipped with 

 white, forming two distinct bands; tertials dusky, margined termi- 

 nally with whitish, this passing into chestnut-brown toward basal por- 

 tion of outer webs; the innermost greater coverts also edged with 

 chestnut-brown; primaries dusky hair brown narrowly edged with 

 paler; sides of head and neck (including lower half of lores), and chest 

 uniform rather light gra}' (olive-gray or inclining to smoke gray), 

 fading into nearly white on throat, chin, and abdomen; sides and 

 flanks pale buffy brown, the under tail-coverts pale buffy or buffy 

 whitish with indistinct darker (concealed) central areas; bill cinnamon- 

 brownish with tip of maxilla dusky; iris brown; tarsi light brownish, 

 toes usually darker; length (skins), 14S.3J-171.20 (160.53); wing, 

 75.69-83.31 (80.01); tail, 68.07-82.04 (74.68); exposed culmen, 10.92- 

 11. 94 (11.43) ; depth of bill at base, 7. 11-8. 38 (7. 62) ; tarsus, 22. 10-23. 88 

 (23.37); middle toe, 14.99-17.78 (16.76).^ 



^ Thirteen specimens. 



