WITH BROWN PREDOMINATING 225 



554b. NUTTALL SPARROW. — Zonofrichia leucophrys 



nuttalli. 



Family : The Finches, Sparrows, etc. 



Length: 6.00-7.00. 



Adults: Like the white-crowned sparrow, but white superciliary stripe 



extending to bill ; lores white, and general coloration brown. 

 Geographical Distribution : British Columbia to Southern California, 



south in winter to Lower California. 

 California Breeding Bangc : Humid coast belt from Oregon south to 



Point Sur. 

 Breeding Season: March 15 to IVIay 1. 

 Nest : Bulky ; of weed stems, and lined with grasses ; placed in thick 



clumps of weeds or low trees or bushes. 

 Eggs : 3 to 5 ; pale greenish blue, spotted with pale rusty. Size 0.87 X 

 6.64. 



Like the intermediate sparrow, the Xuttall Sparrow is 

 also a subspecies of the whitc-crowiied, and siniihir in 

 habits. It is a resident of the coast belt in the vicinity 

 of Santa Cruz, and straggles as far south as Los Angeles 

 in winter. 



557. GOLDRX-CROWXED SV ARROW .—■ Zouotrichia 

 coronata. 



Family : The Finches, Sparrows, etc. 



Length: 7.00-8.00. 



Adults: Ujtper parts olive-brown, streaked on the back with rustv 



black ; two white wing-bars ; middle of crown yellow, between two 



black lines, the yellow merging to gray for tlie last tliird ; under 



parts gray, tinged witli brown on sides. 

 Young: Similar, witli forehead suffused witli yellow, and black crown- 



stripes streaked with brown ; under parts soiled white. 

 Geographical Distribution : PaeiHc Coast, Southern California to Alaska, 



straggling to the Rocky Mountains and Wisconsin. 

 Brerding I^ange : Alaska. 

 Breeding Season : June. 



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