566 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Common Characters. Feathers of interscapular region blackish centrally, pass- 

 ing into rufous-brown and edged with paler. Rump and upper tail-coverts 

 uniform olivaceous-ashy brown. Two white bands on the wings ; the tertials 

 edged with rufous. Beneath without streaks. Head above marked with black, 

 and generally with white. Cheeks plumbeous. 



A. Black of the crown divided by a median light stripe. Jugulum ashy. 



a. Throat ashy, uniform with the breast. 



1. Z. leucophrys. Median stripe of the crown white. A black 

 stripe from behind the eye, and a white superciliary stripe. 



a. A black stripe from the eye to forehead, across lore. Hab. 

 Eastern Province of North America, west throughout Rocky 

 Mountains; Cape St. Lucas in winter . . \?i\'.leucoplir7js. 

 /3. No black streak in front of eye, the lores being wholly 

 ashy. Hah. Western Province North America, east to Rocky 

 Mountains \&\: g amheli. 



2. Z. coronata. Median stripe of crown yellow for anterior and 

 ash for posterior half. Black of crown coming down to eye and 

 ear coverts, leaving no liglit superciliary stripe. Hab. Pacific 

 Province of North America; accidental east of Sierra Nevada. 



b. Throat pure white, in sharp contrast with the dark ash of cheeks 

 and jugulum. 



3. Z. albicollis. Median stripe of crown white. A light super- 

 ciliary stripe, yellow anterior to the eye, and white behind it; a 

 black streak along upper edge of ear-coverts. Hab. Eastern Prov- 

 ince of North America. 



B. Black of the crown not divided, but continuous. Jugulum white. 



4. Z. querula. Lores, forepart of cheeks, Avith the chin and 

 throat, deep black ; whole side of head behind the eye, ashy. 

 Lower parts pure white. Hah. Missouri Plains. 



Zonotrichia leucophrys, Swainson. 



WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW. 



Emheriza leucophrys, Forster, Philos. Trans. LXII, 1772, 382, 426. — Gmelin, Syst Nat. 

 I, 1788, 874. — Wilson, Am. Orn. IV, 1811, 49, pi. xxxi, f. 4. Fringilla {Zonotrichia) 

 leucophrys, Sw. F. B. Am. II, 1831, 255. Zonotrichia leucophrys, BoN. List, 1838. — 

 Ib. Consp. 1850, 478.— Bairr, Birds N. Am. 1858, 458, pi. Ixix, f. 2. — Coues, 

 P. A. N. S. 1861, 224. — Maynard, Birds E. Mass. 1870, 118. —Cooper, Orn. Cal. I, 

 196. —Samuels, 309. Fringilla leucoi^rys, Aud. Orn. Biog, II, 1834, 88 ; V, 515, 

 pi. cxiv. — Ib. Syn. 1839, 121. — Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 157, pi. cxcii. ? Spizella 

 maxima, Bonap. Comp. Rend. 1853 (either this or Z. gambeli). irhite-crowned 

 Sparroio, Pennant. 



Figured in Buffon, Ois. IV, 192, pi. cexxiii, f. 2. Winter. 



Sp. Char. Head above, upper half of loral region from the bill, and a narrow line 

 through and behind the eye to the occiput, black; a longitudinal patch in the middle of 

 the crown, and a short line from above the anterior corner of the eye, the two confluent 

 on the occiput, white. Sides of the head, forepart of breast, and lower neck all round, 

 pale ash, lightest beneath, and shading insensibly into the whitish of the belly and chin ; 

 sides of belly and under tail-coverts tinged with yellowish-brown. Interscapular region 

 streaked broadly with dark chestnut-brownish. Edges of the tertiaries brownish-chestnut. 

 Two white bands on the wing. 



