Perching Birds Chiefly Brown or Streaked. 



554. White-crowned Sparrow {Zonotrichia leu- 

 cophrys). L. 6.9. No yellow before eye. Ads. 

 White stripe over eye not reaching to bill; lores black; 

 breast gray, throat but little paler; back gray streaked 

 with brown, rump browner, Yng. Black crown- 

 stripes replaced by chestnut, the white ones by buff; 

 back much browner, no gray. Notes. Call, a sharp 

 chip; song, a plaintive, musical whistle usually of five 

 or six notes, the first two longest. 



Range. — North America; "breeds from northern New England and 

 (in the higher Rockies and Sierra) New Mexico, Arizona, and Cal- 

 ifornia north to Labrador and Hudson Bay region; winters from 

 southern United States into Mexico. 



554a. Intermediate Sparrow (Z. /. gambeli). Sim- 

 ilar to Nt>. 544, but the lores wholly gray or whitish, 

 the white line over the eye reaching the bill. 



Range. — Western North America; breeds from Montana and eastern 

 Oregon northeast of Coast Mountains, to lower Mackenzie and north- 

 ern Alaska; winters from southern United States into Mexico; casual 

 in migrations east to Mississippi River States. 



554b. Nuttall Sparrow (Z. /. nuttalli). Similar to 

 No. 554a, but smaller, L. 6.5, margins to feathers of 

 back browner, underparts browner, bend of wing 

 yellow. 



Range. — "Pacific coast district, breeding from Monterey, Californ- 

 ia, to Mt. Simpson, British Columbia, south in winter to San Pedro 

 Martir Mountains, Lower California." (Ridgw.) 



557. Golden-crowned Sparrow {Zonotrichia coron- 

 ata). L. 7.2. Ad. J 1 . Center of crown yellow, its 

 sides black; below grayish white, sides brownish; 

 back brown streaked with black; two white wing-bars; 

 bend of wing yellow. Ad. $. Crown like back; its 

 front tinged with yellow; breast washed with brownish. 



Range. — Pacific coast; breeds in Alaska; winters from Oregon 

 south to northern Lower California. 



558. White-throated Sparrow {Zonotrichia albicol- 

 lisj". C. 6.7. A yellow mark before the eye and on 

 bend of wing. Ads. Crown black, a narrow white 

 stripe through its center and bounded by white behind 

 the eye; throat white sharply defined from gray breast; 

 back reddish brown streaked with black. Yng. Less 

 yellow before eye, crown browner, its stripe gray; 

 throat grayer, sometimes like breast. Notes. Call, a 

 low tseep, and sharp chink; song, a musical, clearly 

 whistled sow-wheat peverly, peverly, peverly; or peabody, 

 peabody, peabody. 



Range.- Eastern North America, west to the Plains, casually to the 

 Pacific; breeds from Massachusetts (locally), northern New York, 

 northern Michiean, and eastern Montana, north to Labrador and West 

 Hudson Bay region; winters from Massachusetts (rarely) and Illinois 

 south to the Gulf. 



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