NO. 5 CHECK-LIST OF FOSSIL BIRDS — WETMORE lOI 



Chondestes grammacus (Say) : Lark Sparrow 

 Fringilla grammaca Say, in Long, Exped. Rocky Mts., vol. i, 1823, p. 139. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene : Rancho La Brea, Los 

 Angeles, California, 



Genus AMPHISPIZA Coues 



Amphispiza Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, p. 234. Type, by original designa- 

 tion, Emberisa bilineata Cassin. 



Amphispiza bilineata (Cassin) : Black-throated Sparrow 



Emberiza bilineata Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 5, No. 5, 

 September-October (Dec. 7), 1850, p. 104, pi. 3. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene : Rancho La Brea, Los 

 Angeles, California. 



Amphispiza belli (Cassin) : Bell's Sparrow 



Emberiza Belli Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 5, No. 5, 

 September-October (Dec. 7), 1850, p. 104, pi. 4. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene: McKittrick, Kern 

 County, and Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California. 



Genus SPIZELLA Bonaparte 



Spizella Bonaparte, Giornale Arcadico, vol. 52, October-December 1831 

 (1832), p. 205. Type, by monotypy, Fringilla pusilla Wilson. 



Spizella passerina (Bechstein) : Chipping Sparrow 



Fringilla passerina Bechstein, in Latham, Allgem. Uebers. Vogel, vol. 3, 

 pt. 2, 1798, p. 544, pi. 120, fig. I. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene : Rancho La Brea, Los 

 Angeles, California. 



Genus ZONOTRICHIA Swainson 



Zonotrichia Swainson, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., 

 vol. 2, 183 1 (February 1832), p. 493. Type, by subsequent designation, 

 Fringilla pensylvanica Latham^ Fringilla albicollis Gmelin (Bonaparte, 

 1831). 



Zonotrichia leucophrys (Forster) : White-crowned Sparrow 



Emberiza leucophrys J. R. Forster, Philos. Trans., vol. 62, art. 29, 1772, 

 p. 426. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene : Rancho La Brea, Los 

 Angeles, California. 



