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nesota and Montana northward, in suitable localities throughout 

 their range, which I feel confident will be found to extend much 

 farther north than Manitoba, its present northern limit as given. 

 Capt. Chas. Bendire describes in "The Auk," Yol. 6, p. 150, a 

 nest containing four eggs, found June 24, 1885, in a willow 

 thicket near Fort Custer, Montana, which he thinks will prove 

 to be the nest and eggs of this bird; and Eidgway says: "Eggs 

 (identification somewhat doubtful), .S7x.68; buffy whitish, 

 thickly speckled with burnt umber, slightly mixed with purplish 

 gray." 



Zonotrichia leucophrys (Forst.). 



WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW. 

 PLATE XXVIII. 



A rare winter sojourner in the southern part of the State; 

 during migration very common. The bulk move northward in 

 April, a few linger into May; return in October. 



B. 345. R. 206. C. 276. G. 104, 224. U. 554. 



Habitat. North America at large, breeding in the Sierra Ne- 

 vada and Kocky Mountain regions, and eastward north of the 

 Great Lakes to Labrador; wintering throughout the southern 

 portion of the United States and southward into Mexico. 



Sp. Char. Top of head black or brown, divided by a distinct median stripe 

 of white, buff, yellow or gray; sides and flanks grayish brown, without distinct 

 streaks, or else with sides of forehead yellow and back rusty brown; adults with 

 chin and throat whitish or light grayish. Back gray, grayish brown or smoky 

 brown, streaked with brown or black; chin and throat not abruptly white; sides 

 of forehead not yellow; middle crown stripe entirely white, ashy or buffy; top 

 of head without yellow. Adults with lateral crown stripes deep black, median 

 stripe white or pale ashy; a broad white superciliary stripe, below which is a 

 narrower black stripe behind eye (sometimes continued in front of it). Imma- 

 ture, with lateral crown stripes and streak behind eye chestnut brown or burnt 

 umber brown; middle crown stripe dull buft'y; superciliary stripe dull light buffy 

 grayish. Edges of wing white; white or buffy median crown stripe, broad as, 

 or broader than, lateral black or brown stripes; adults with back ashy, streaked 

 with burnt umber or vandyke brown, and chest ashy. Lores black or dark 

 brownish, the white, grayish or dull buff superciliary stripe not reaching to bill. 

 {Rklgicay.) 



Stretch of 

 Length. zuing. Wing. Tail. Tarstts. Bill. 



Male 7.00 10.30 3.30 3.20 .90 .43 



Female... 6.50 9.80 3.10 3.00 .88 .40 



