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273. Spizella breweri Cass. B 361. c isoa. r 212. 



Brewer's Chipping Sparrow. 



274. Spizella atrignlaris (Cab.) Bd. b 362. c I8I. r 215. 



Black-chinned Chipping Sparrow^. 



275. Zonotrichia albicoUis (Gm.) Bp. b 349. c I82. r 209. 



White-throated Crow^n Sparrow. 



276. Zonotrichia leucophrys (Forst.) Sw. b 345. c 183. r 206. 



White-brow^ed Crow^n Sparrow^. 



277. Zonotrichia leucophrys intermedia Riclg. b 346. c 1836. r 207a. 



Intermediate Crow^n Sparrow^. 



278. Zonotrichia gambeli Nutt. b 346. c issa. r 207. 



Gambel's Crow^n Sparrow. 



279. Zonotrichia coronata (Pall.) Bd. b 347. c 184. R 208. 



Golden Crown Sparrow. 



280. Zonotrichia querula (Nutt.) Gamb. B 348. c 185. R 205. 



Harris's Crown Sparrow^. 



281. Chondestes grammicus (Saj-) Bp. b 344. ci86. R 204, 204a. 



Lark Finch. 



273. S. brew'-gr-i. To Thomas Mayo Brewer, of Boston, long the leading oologist of the 



United States. 



This is given in the first ed. of the Check List as a var. of pallida. 



274. S. a-trl-gul-a'-ris. Lat. ater, a^ra, a^ram, black ; and ^(tfem, pertaining to the throat ; ^«/a, 



the tiiroat, gullet. 



275. Z5-n6-trich'-I-a [pronounced Dzonotreekeya] al-bl-col'-lls. Gr. fwi/17, a girdle, band, 



zone, and rpixois or rpixids, some kind of bird ; in allusion to the conspicuously banded 

 heads of sparrows of this group. Or, the latter part of the word may be directly from 

 Tptx'ias (0pi^, genitive rpixos), hairy; i.e., having the head striped. — Lat. albicollis, 

 white-throated ; alhus, white, and collum, the collar, neck. 



276. Z. leQ-co'-phrys. Gr. \evK6s, white, and o<ppvs, eyebrow. 



277. Z. 1. in-ter-mgd'-I-a. Lat. ir\termedius, intermediate, between two things; inter, between. 



among, and medius, middle ; related to Gr. netros, of same meaning. 



Not in the orig. ed. ; since discriminated both from leucophrys and from gamheli. 



278. Z. gam'-bel-i. To William Gambel, of Philadelphia, one of the pioneers in Californian 



ornithology. 



In the orig. ed. this is given as a var. of leucophrys; since decided to be distinct. 



279. Z. c6r-6-na'-ta. Lat. coronatus, crowned, participle of corona,! crown; corona, a. crown. 



Coronis or Kopdyis was the name of a Thessalian princess ; also, a scroll with which 

 writers marked the end of a piece of writing — " finis coronat opus." Corone or Kopwuv 

 was also a crow or raven, into which the princess was fabled to have been transformed 

 by her spouse Apollo, and survives in ornithology in the term Corvus corone L. 



280. Z. qugr'-u-la. Lat. querulus or querulosus, plaintive, querulous ; from queror, to complain, 



lament. 



281. Chon-des'-tes gram'-ml-cus. Gr. x-^^V^. cartilage ; also, a kind of grain; -estes is from 



the root rSo,, I eat. Is not the word more properly to be written chondrestes ? We suppose 

 it to be masculine. — Lat. grammicus, from gramma, a line, word, mark, in allusion to the 



