604 FEINGILLID^!. 



(1864) ; Coues, Ibis, 1865, p. 164 ; Dresser, t. c. pp. 316, 488 ; 



Coues, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1860, p. 84 ; Baird, Ibis, 1867, p. 270 ; 



Brown, Ibis, 1868, p. 422 ; Ball § Barm. Trans. Chicago Acad. 



i. p. 284 (1869) ; Allen, Bull. Mm. Comp. Zool. iii. p. 157 (1872). 

 Zonotrichia leucophrys, var. gambeli, Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 



iii. p. 177 (1872) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 145 (1872, pt.) ; 



Baird, Brewer, $ Ridgiv. Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. 569 (1874) ; 



Zaivr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 277 (1874). 

 Zonotrichia leucophrys, var. intermedia, Ridgw. Bull. Essex Inst. v. 



p. 198 (1873); Coues, B. N.-West, p. 156 (1874); Hensh. Hep. 



Zool. Expl. 100th Merid. p. 261 (1875). 

 Zonotrichia intermedia, Riclgio. Rep. Surv. 40th Par. p. 471 (1877) ; 



Merrill, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 126 (1878) ; Belding, t. c. 



p. 415 ; Ridgw. Ibis, 1883, p. 400 ; Batchelder, Auk, ii. p. 124 



(1885) ; Salvin Sf Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 370 



(1886) ; Hensh. Auk, iii. p. 74 (1886) ; Goss, t. c. p. 114 ; Seton, 



t. c. p. 323 ; A. O. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 271 (1886). 

 Zonotrichia leucophrys intermedia, Coues, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. iv. 



p. 594 (1878); Sennett, op. cit. v. p. 391 (1880); Coues, Check-list 



N. Amer. B. p. 57 (1882) ; id. Keg N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 383 (1884). 

 Zonotrichia gambeli intermedia, Ridgw. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, 



p. 24 (1881) ; Nelson, Cruise R. S. ' Corivin,' p. 70 (1883) ; Belding, 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 533 (1883) ; Brown, Auk, i. p. 121 



(1884); Murdoch, Exped. Pt. Barrow, p. 107 (1885) ; Drew, Auk, 



ii. p. 16 (1885) ; Beckh. t. c. p. 141. 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. General colour above ashy brown, 

 striped with chestnut and grey on the back, the feathers being 

 broadly chestnut in the middle with ashy-grey margins ; the hind 

 neck and upper mantle uniform ashy grey ; lower back and rump 

 uniform brown ; lesser wing-coverts ashy grey ; median and greater 

 coverts blackish, edged externally with light brown, and having a 

 white spot at the end of the outer web, less distinct on the greater 

 coverts, the innermost of which are externally rufous : bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills dark brown, edged with lighter brown, 

 the primaries margined with ashy whitish towards their ends, the 

 inner secondaries externally rufous like the inner greater coverts, 

 and having a white mark along the end of the outer web ; upper 

 tail-coverts and tail-feathers brown, edged with ashy brown, the 

 outer feather rather lighter brown near the tip, which is fringed 

 with whitish ; centre of crown with a broad white band reaching to 

 the nape ; forehead and a broad band along the sides of the crown 

 black, followed by a distinct superciliary line of white from the fore 

 part of the eye to the nape, but separated from the ashy-white lores 

 by the black forehead impinging on to the eyelid, which is also 

 whitish ; cheeks and ear-coverts ashy grey like the sides of the neck, 

 with a black line above the ear-coverts, widening out on the sides 

 of the neck above the ear-coverts ; chin whitish ; remainder of under 

 surface of body ashy grey, the flanks browner ; centre of abdomen 

 whitish; under tail-coverts pale tawny buff ; thighs whitish, dusky 

 behind ; axillaries and under wing-coverts pale ashy, with light 

 brown bases ; quills dusky brown below, ashy along the inner webs : 

 " bill reddish orange, tipped with brown ; feet pale brown ; iris 



