470 ORNITQOLOGY. 



List of specimens. 



8, nest and eggs (3); Sacramento, California, June 8, 18G7. Lower branch of 

 email oak, in grove. 



30, nest and eggs (3) ; Sacramento, California, June 11, 1867. Cottonwood copse, 

 ten feet from ground. 



50, nest and eggs (3) ; Sacramento, California, June 18, 1867. Twenty feet from 

 ground, in oak-grove. 



72, nest and eggs (3); Sacramento, California, June 20, 1867. Twenty feet from 

 ground, in oak-grove. 



8a, nest and eggs ; Sacramento, California, June 28, 1867. Six feet from ground, 

 in cotton-wood copse. 



90, nest and eggs ; Sacramento, California, Juno 29, 1867. Six feet from ground, 

 in cotton-wood copse. 



783, nest and eggs (4) ; Truckee Reservation, Nevada, June 3, 1868. On ground 

 beneath sage-bush, on 7nesa. 



960, S ad.; Salt Lake City, Utah, May 20, 1869. 7J— 11§. Upper mandible, 

 brownish-ash, lower whitish-blue ; iris, brown ; tarsi and toes, brownish-white. 



1020, nest and eggs; Salt Lake City, May 22, 1809. 



1045, nest and eggs (5); Salt Lake City, May 25, 1869. 



•1046, nest and eggs (5) ; same locality and date. 



1047, 1048, nests and eggs; Salt Lake City, Slay 26, 1869. 



1056, nest and eggs ; Salt Lake City, May 27, 1869. 



1174, nest and eggs (4); Salt Lake City, June 10, 1809. 



1175, nest and eggs (4) ; Salt Lake City, June 17, 1869. 

 1197, nest and eggs; Salt Lake City, June 21, 1869. 



Nests, all on the ground beneath sage-bushes; maximum number of eggs, five'. 



ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS. 

 ^'Iiid'-crownod Sparrow. 



Emberiza leiwophrys, FORSTER, Phil. Trans., LXII, 1772, 382, 403, 426. 



Zonotrichia leucophyrs, Bonap., Comp. & Geog. List, 1838, 32. — Baird, B. N. Am., 

 1858, 458, pi. 69, fig. 2 ; Cat. N. Am. B., 1859, No. 345.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 

 I, 196.— CouES, Key, 1872, 144; Check List, 1873, No. 183.— B. B.& R., Hist. 

 N. Am. B., I, 1874, 566, pi. xxv, figs. 9, 10.— Henshaw, 1875, 260. 



Tlu-oughout tho Rocky Mountain ranges, westward to the very verge 



of the desert-region of the Great Basin, this eastern form entirely replaces 



in summer the more western Z. intermedia of the Sierra Nevada. It was a 



very abundant summer species in the elevated parks of the Wahsatch and 



Uintah Mountains, where, from May to the latter part of August, not a 



single individual of Z. intermedia was found. At our camp in Parley's Park 



these l)irds were our most familiar neiglibors, and by reason of their con- 



lidiug habits and sweet morning carols endeared themselves to the members 



