lr> UlilTE-TIUK'AIED Sl'AlUiOW. 



the 1'arren New Ergland hill sides ^^liicll the bird hihabits, 

 and has much to do with its singalurly pleasing effect. 



Genus. ZON'E-TILROATED SPARROWS. Zonctraciiia. 



Bill, rather pointed. Wings, longer than the tail which is 

 slightly forked, but with the outer feathers rounded. This 

 genus embraces two of our largest and finest sparrows, both 

 have the top of the head conspicuously marke^l with black 

 and white. Females somewhat duller than the males. 



Wh5te=thrcated Sparrew. 



ZONOTRACIIIA ALBICOLLIS. 



Plate III, Fig. 1. 



Reddish brown or chestnut above, conspicuously streaked 

 with dark brown. Top of head dark brown, with a central 

 stripe of white. Line in front of e3^e bright yellow, continued 

 over eye and back of it with white. Throat white, sides of 

 head, breast, sides and under tail coverts, ashy brown; remain- 

 ing under parts white. Edge of wing yellow. Occasionally 

 there is a dusky spot in the middle of the breast. 



Young birds, and usually females, have the yellow line on 

 the sides of head less extended, and the black and white of 

 the crown obscured with chestnut, and the white of the throat 

 is more or less obscured with dusky. Young of the year in 

 autumn have the markings of the crown wholly obscured by 

 dusky, chestnut and pale rufous. Q'here are black lines at 

 the base of the lower mandible, and the breast is streaked 

 with dusky. Nestlings differ from the above in being finely 



