ZONOTRICHIA INTERMEDIA. 471 



of the party. One young individual, bred in a nest close to the camp, 

 became so sociable as to visit daily the cook's tent for the crumbs scattered 

 on the ground. 



List of specimens. 



IOCS, 5 ad.; Salt Lake City, Utali, May 29, 1809. C|_94. Bill, orange-brown, 

 lower mandible paler, tips of both black ; iris, brown ; tarsi and toes, deep brown. 



1292, nest and eggs (5); Parley's Park, Wahsatch Mountains, Utah, June 26, 

 1809. Nest on ground, under Geranium bush, 



1430, S ad.; 7— OJ. 1431, $ ad.; 0^%— 9§. Parley's Park, July 19, 18C9. Bill, per- 

 fectly uniform, deep purplish, mahogany-brown; iris, brown; tarsi, reddish hepatic- 

 brown ; toes, darker. 



1463, S juv.; Parley's Park, July 28, 1869. 6i— 10. Bill, mahogany-brown, 

 darker on culmeu and tip ; iris, brown ; tarsi and toes, dark purplish-brown. 



ZONOTRICniA INTERMEDIA. 

 Ridgway's Sparrow.' 



(Mooh'-um-pooh of the Washoes; You-00-hoot' -se-pah of the Paiutes.) 



Zonotrichia gambeli, Baird, Birds N. Am., 1858, 460 (part) ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 



1859, No. 346 (part).— CooPER, Orn. Cal, I, 1870, 195 (part). 

 Zonotrichia leucoplirys var. gambeli, Allen, Bull. JIus. Comp. Zool., Ill, 1872, 157, 



177.— OouES, Key, 1872, 145 (part); Check List, 1873, No. 183a (part).— B. B. 



& R., Hist. N. Am. Birds, 1, 1874, 509, pi. xxv, figs. 11, 12. 

 Zonotrichia leucophrys var. intermedia, RroowAY, Coues' Check List, App., 1872, 



No. 183b.— CouES, Birds N.W., 1874, 156.— Henshaw, 1875, 261, pi. vu, 



fig. 2 (adult). 



At the Summit Meadows, the most elevated portion of the Donner 

 Lake Pass of the Sierra Nevada, these birds were so extremely abundant 

 on the 9th day of July, that, on the evening we camped there, twenty- 

 seven of their eggs were found after a hurried search of less than twenty 

 minutes' duration. The pleasing songs of the males were heard on every 

 hand, not only during daylight, but at intervals through the night, these 

 songs resembling those of Z. leucophrys, although they seemed somewhat 

 more vigorous and distinct. They were exceedingly unsuspicious little 

 birds, the pair usually remaining close by when their nest and eggs 

 were being appropriated, the male even, ou several occasions, singing, as 

 he perched on the summit of a neighboring bush, while we were preparing 

 the eggs for preservation. 



'CoUES, Birds 0/ tlie Northicent, p. 156. 



