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SYSTEMA TIC S YNOPSIS. — PA SSERES — OSCINES. 



region, from Lower California to British Columbia. {Z. gamheli NuTT. 1840, nee Baird, 

 1858, CouES, 1872. This is given as a full species in the 2(l-4th eds. of the Key, 1884-90 ; 



in the A. 0. U. List, 1886, No. 55G; and 

 KiDGW. Man. 1887, p. 416 ; but is re- 

 duced to a subspecies in the A. 0. U. 

 List, 2d ed. 1895, No. 554 h. It cer- 

 tainly seems to me an entirely different 

 bird, and I have seen no intermediates ; 

 but such no doubt occur, as otherwise 

 the Committee would not have reversed 

 its former ruling.) 



Z. corona'ta. (Lat. coronctta, crowned ; 

 corona, a crown. Fig. 295.) Goldek 

 Crowned Sparrow. Adult ^ ? : 

 Forehead and sides of crown black, 

 enclosing a dull yellow coronal patch 

 anteriorly, an ashy one posteriorly; a 

 yellow spot over eye ; lores black. 

 Edge of wing yellow. Above, much 

 like albicollis, but with less bay and 

 no whitish ; two white wing-bars. 

 Below, including sides of head and 

 neck, ashy, passing insensibly into 

 whitish on belly, and much shaded 

 with brownish on flanks and crissum; 

 Fig. 295. -Golden-Crowned Sparrow. ^j^^g ,^^^(.1^ jjl-p leiicoplmjS, but the 



ashy not so pure; larger than leucophrys ; length 7.00 or more; wing and tail over 3.00. 

 Young : Black of crown replaced by brown ; but always traces of yellow on crown and wings. 

 The yellow eye-spot is small, and not always evident. This large and handsome species in- 

 habits the Pacific coast region, 

 from Alaska S. to Lower Cali- 

 fornia, and has occurred casu- 

 ally in Colorado, Wisconsin, 

 and on Guadaloupe island ; 

 breeds in Alaska. Eggs 

 0.85 X 0.65. 



Z. que'rula. (Lat. querula, 

 (pierulous, plaintive ; queror, 

 I complain, lament. 

 Fig. 296.) Hooded Crown 

 Sparrow. Harris's Spar- 

 row. Adult ^ , in breeding 

 })lumage : Whole crown, face, 

 and throat, jet-black; sides 

 of head pale ash ; auriculars 

 darker ash, bounded by a 

 black line starting behind 

 <'ye and curving around them. 

 Under parts nearly pure white, but slightly ashy before and faintly brownish-washed behind ; 

 sides with a few dusky streaks; breast with a few black spots continued from tlie black ihroat- 



FiG. 296. — Harris's Sparrow. 



