FRINGILLlDiE — THE FINCHES — ZONOTRICHIA. 



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toes very nearly equal Hind toe longer than the lateral ones ; their claws just reaching 

 to base of middle one. Inner claw contained twice in its toe proper ; claws all slender 

 and considerably curved. Wings moderate, not reaching to the middle of the tail, but 

 beyond the rump ; secondaries and tcrtials C(|ual and considerably less than lonj^cst pri- 

 maries; second and third (piills longest ; first about equal to the fifth, nnich longer than 

 tcrtials. Tail rather long, moderately rounded ; the feathers not very broad. Back 

 streaked. Hump and under jjarts immaculate. Head black, or with white streaks en- 

 tirely dilfercnt from the back. 



Zonotrichia Gambelii, Nuttall. 



THE WESTERN WHITE-CKOWNED FINCH. 



Friiiyilln Gambelii,l^UTT\I.h,M:\n. I. 2d cd. 1840, 55G. (California) — Znnntrirhia GmiMU, 



Gambel, J. A. N. Sc. 2d Scries, 1. Dec. 1847, .50. — B.\ird, P. K. Kcp. IX. Birds, 4C0. 



Ie. Birds of N. Anicr. ; pi. 09, t'. 1. — Kexnekly, X. iv. 28. — IIeekmann, X. vi. 48. — 



Cooper and Suckley, XII. iii. Zoul. of W. T. 201. 

 "Zonotrichia lencophrys," of older authors on tlie West Coast birds, not of Forstcr (Eastern). 



— Newberry, Zool. Cal. and Or. Route; P. R. Rep. VII. iv. 1857, 87. — Nuttall, 



Man. I. 2d cd. 5.54. 



Sp. Cii.\r. Head above, and a narrow line behind the eye to the occiput, l)lack ; a 

 longitudinal patch in the middle of the crown, and a line above the ejc, the two continent 

 on the occiput, white. Lores gray. Sides of the head, tore part of breast, and lower neck 

 all round, pale-ash, lightest beneath and shading insensibly into the whitish of the belly and 



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Adult. 



chin ; sides of belly and under tail coverts tinged with ycllowisli-lirown. Interscapular 

 region streaked Ijroadly with dark chestnut brownish. Edges of the tcrtiaries brownish- 

 chestnut. Two white bands on the wing. 



Female similar, but smaller; immature male with the black of the head replaced by 

 dark chestnut lirowu, the white tinged with brownish-yellow. Length, G.50 ; extent, 9.50 ; 

 wing, 3.25; tail, 3,12. Iris brown ; bill brown, below yellow ; feet pale brown. 



Hub. Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast. 



In the Culorado Valley, at Fort Mojave, I found this bird txuite common 



