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Z. leuco'phrys. (Gr. \(vk6s, leucos, white ; 6<f>pii, ophrus, eyebrow. Fig. 242.) Wiiite- 

 BROWEi) Ckown Sparrow. ^ 9 i Jidult'- Crown puio white, enclosing on either side a broad 

 black stripe that meets its fellow on the forehead and descends the lores to the level of the eyes, 

 and bounded by another narrow black stripe that starts behind the eye and curves around the 

 side of the hind-head, nearly meeting its fellow on the nape ; edge of under eyelid white. Or, 

 we may say, crown black, enclosing a median white stripe and two lateral white stripes, all 

 confluent on the hind head. No yellow anywhere. General color a fine dark ash, paler below, 

 whitening insensibly on chin and belly, more brownish on the rump, changing to dull brownaish 

 on the flanks and crissum, the middle of the back streaked with dark purplish-bay and ashy- 

 white. No bright bay, like that of albicollis, anywhere, except some edging on the wing- 

 coverts and inner secondaries ; middle and greater coverts tipped with white, fonning two bars. 

 Bill and feet reddish. Length 6.25-7-00 ; extent'.). 20-10. 20 ; wing and tail 2.90-3.20 ; usually 

 6.75 — 9.50 — 3.10. Young: Black of the head replaced by very rich warm brown, the white of 

 the head by pale brownish ; the general ash has a brownish suffusion, and the back is more like 

 that oi albicollis, being streaked with dusky 

 and ochrey-brown; but the two species 

 cannot be confounded. Very young : Be- 

 fcjre the first moult, there are indications of 

 the head markings as last described ; but 

 the whole upper parts, sides of the neck 

 and fore under parts are streaked with 

 blackish and ochrey-brown or whitish. 

 North Amer., especially eastern and rather 

 northerly; W. to the Rocky Mts., where 

 mixed with Z. I. intermedia; Greenland ; 

 Cape St. Lucas. Not nearly so abundant 

 in the U. S. as albicollis, but common in 

 many sections in winter and during tlic 

 migrations. Breeds occasionally in Nortli- 

 ern New England, and plentifully in Lab- 

 rador, where it is one of the commonest 

 sparrows. Nesting the same as that of 

 albicollis, and eggs undistinguishable. 



:Syarrow, reduced. 



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(Slieppard del. iiichols sc. ) 



Z. 1. interme^dia. (Lat. intermedia, intermediate, in the middle.) Intermediate Crown- 

 Sparrow. Exactly like the last, but lores gray or ashy, continuous with the white stripe over 

 the eye, i. e., the black of the forehead does not descend to the eye. Perhaps averaging a trifle 

 smaller, and duller colored. Some specimens resemble leiicophrys on one side of the head, and 

 intermedia on the other. Rocky Mts. to the Pacific, mostly replacing true leucophnjs. {Z. 

 ffambeli Bd., 1858, Cones, 1872, nee Nutt.) 



Z. gamlbeli. (To Wm. Gambel, of Phila.) Gambel'.s Crown Sparrow. ^larkings of the 

 head much the same as in Z. I. intermedia; body colors entirely different, and almost exactly as 

 in coronata, No. 279. Streaking of the back sooty-black. Edge and lining of the wing yellow, 

 as in coronata and albicollis. Bill in dried specimens blackish and yellow, not reddish. Size of 

 coronata. Pacific coast, U. S., southerly. (Z. gambeli Nutt., 1840, nee Baird, Cones.) 

 Z. corona'ta. (Lat. coronata, crowned ; corona, a crown.) Golden Crown Sparrow. 

 $ 9 1 adult : Forehead and sides of the crown black, enclosing a dull yellow coronal patch 

 anteriorly, an ashy one posteriorly ; a yellow spot over eye ; lores black. Edge of the 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, passim; insensibly into whitish on the belly, and 

 much shaded with brownish on the flanks and crissum ; thus much like leiicophrys, but tlie 



