470 OENITnOLOGY. 



List of specimens. 



S, iR'st <incl eggs (3); Sacrameuto, Oalilbrnia, June 8, 1807. Lower hiancli of 

 small oak, in grove. 



30, nest and eggs (3) ; Sacramento, California, June 11, 18G7. Cottonwood copse, 

 ten feet from ground. 



50, nest and eggs (3) ; Sacramento, California, Juno 18, 1SG7. Twenty feet from 

 ground, in oak-grove. 



72, nest and eggs (3) ; Sacramento, California, June 20, 1SC7. Twenty feet from 

 ground, in oak-grove. 



85, nest and eggs; Sacramento, California, June 28, 1SG7. Six feet from grouml, 

 in cotton-wood copse. 



90, nest and eggs ; Sacramento, California, June 29, 18G7. Six feet from ground, 

 in cotton-wood copse. 



783, nest and eggs (4) ; Truckeo Reservation, Nevada, June 3, 18G8. On ground 

 beneath sage-bush, on mesa. 



900, S ad.,- Salt Lake City, Utah, May 20, 1809. 7^—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, 1809. 



1040, nest and eggs (5) ; same locality and date. 



1047, 1048, nests and eggs; Salt Lake City, May 2G, 1869. 



1056, nest and eggs; Salt Lake City, Jlay 27, 1809. 



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



1175, nest and eggs (4) ; Salt Lake City, June 17, 1809. 

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



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



ZONOTKICHIA LBUCOPHRYS. 

 1il(|iite-crowncd Sparrow. 



Embcriza leucophnjs, Forster, Phil. Trans., LXII, 1772, 382, 403, 420. 



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

 1858, 458, pi. 09, fig. 2 ; Cat. N. Am. B., 1859, No. 345.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 

 I, 190.— CouES, Key, 1872, 144; Check List, 1873, No. 183.— B. B.& li.. Hist. 

 N. Am. B., I, 1874, 560, pi. xxv, figs. 9, 10.— Oenshaw, 1875, 260. 



Throughout the Rocky Moiintain 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 Parle 

 these l>Jnls wen- our most familiar neighbors, and by reason of their con- 

 fiding habits ;iud sweet morning carols endeared themselves to the members 



