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especially the bushes and thickets of the streams, 

 greater or less numbers in Southern Arizona. 



I believe they winter in 



ZONOTEICHIA LEUCOPHRYS (Forst.), var. INTERMEDIA, Ridgw. 

 Ridg-iray'j!) Sparrow. 



Pl.ATE VII, riGsl./72. 



Zonotrkliia leucophrys var. intermedia, Eidg., ISIS. — CoUER, Check-List, app., No. 

 1836. — Yakrow & Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 

 1874, 14.— Henshaw, An. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., xii, 1874, G.—Id, An. List 

 Birds Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 44.— Id., Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, 

 Wheeler's Exped., 1874, (!2, 112.— CoUES, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1874, 15G. 



Zonotrichia leiico2>hrys var. (jamheli, CouES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 145 (in i)art). 



Zonotrichia intermedin, Yarrow, Rep. Oru. Si)ecs., 1871, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 35. 



Zonotrichia gambelii, Bd., Ives' (Jol. Exped., 1857-58, pt. iv, 6. — Id., Birds N. A., 

 1858, 4G0.— /(/., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, i)t. ii, 1850, Birds, 15.— 

 Heerm., p. R. R. Rep., x, pt. ii, 1859, 48 (New Mexico ; Texas). — Ken- 

 NERLY, P. R. R. Rep., Whipple's Route, 1859, 28. — Henry, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 107 (New Mexico).— Coop. & Suckl., P. R. R. Rep., 

 xii, pt. ii, 18G0, 201.— Hayd., Trans. Am. Pbil. Soc., xii, 1862, 100.— CouES, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1800, 84 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.).— Jrf., ib., 1808, 

 S3.— Stev., U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1870, 404.— Allen, BuI. Mas. Comp. 

 Zool, 1872, 177 (Wahsatch "Mountains). — Hold., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., XV, 1872, 199.— Merriam, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 081. 



Under the variety intermedia, Mr. Ridgway distinguishes the Middle 

 Province form from the true gamheli as restricted to the Pacific coast. This 

 variety is to be known by its lighter coloration and the chestnut-brown 

 dorsal streaks instead of black. Up to the lOth of Ma}', a few individuals 

 about Denver were seen accompanying flocks of the preceding; but they 



