62. ZONOTRICHIA. 597 



d'". No white tips to the greater wing-coverts. 



e*. Wing-coverts uniform chestnut strigiceps, p. 607. 



f 1 . Lesser wing-coverts only chestnut ; re- 

 mainder of coverts like the back wkitii, p. 608. 



d". Crown without any lateral bands of black or 

 chestnut. 



e'". A patch of yellow on the forehead coronata juv., 



f". No yellow on the forehead, which is olive- [p. 601. 



brown like the crown ; eyebrow ashy grey, vulcani, p. 602. 

 b'. Sides of neck chestnut, extending in a bright 

 collar round the hind neck. 

 e". Sides of crown with a broad lateral streak of 



black pileata, p. 610. 



f". No black on the sides of the head, which is 



entirely grey canicapilla, p. 609. 



1. Zonotrichia querula. 



Fringilla querula, Nutt. Man. p. 555 (1840). 



Fringilla harrisii, Audub. B. Amer. 8vo, vii. p. 331, pi. 484 (1843). 



Fringilla cornata, Neuwied, Reis. ii. p. 352 (1841); id. J.f. O. 1858, 



p. 279. 

 Zonotrichia querula, Gambel, Joum. Philad. Acad. (2) i. p. 51 (1847) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 373 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 478 (1850) ; 



Baird, N. Amer. B. p. 462 (1858) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 488 ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 92, no. 7380 (1870) ; Allen, Amer. Nat. 



1872, p. 267 ; Baird, Brewer, fy Jiidgw. Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. 577, 



pi. 26. fig. 4 (1874) ; Cuues, Bull. U.S. Geol. Swrv. iv. p. 594 



(1878) ; McChesney, op. cit. v. p. 77 (1880) ; Ridgw. Bull. U.S. 



Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 24 (1881) ; Coues, Check-list N. Amer. B. 



p. 57 (1882) ; id. Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 384 (1884) ; 



Agersb. Auk, ii. p. 281 (1885) ; A. O. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. 



p. 270 '1886) ; Seton, Auk, iii. p. 323 (1886). 

 Zonotrichia cornata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 479 (1850). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, the scapulars and back 

 broadly streaked with black, and slightly tinged with rufous, and 

 edged with ashy fulvous ; lower back and rump dull ashy brown ; 

 lesser wing-coverts blackish, edged with ashy : median and greater 

 series black, edged with ashy fulvous, the inner greater coverts 

 externally rufous, both series tipped with white, forming a double 

 wing-bar ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts and quills blackish, 

 narrowly edged with ashy, tinged with rufous on the quills, the 

 primaries margined with white ; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers 

 brown, edged with ashy, the three outer ones fringed with white, 

 with which the outermost is also edged ; crown of head and nape 

 black ; hind neck chocolate-brown, mottled with dusky centres to 

 the feathers ; a broad streak of ashy grey along the sides of the 

 hinder crown ; lores, feathers round the eye, fore part of checks, 

 and entire throat black ; ear-coverts ashy ; on the hinder part of the 

 cheeks a white patch ; remainder of under surface of body white, the 

 sides of the breast brown, clearer on the flanks ; the centre of the 

 fore neck mottled with black spots, as also the sides of the breast ; 

 the flanks rather broadly striped with dark brown ; under tail-coverts 



