FRINGILLID®, FINCHES, ETC.—GEN. 74. 145 
General color’a fine dark ash, paler below, whitening insensibly on chin 
and belly, more brownish on the rump, changing to dull brownish on the 
flanks and erissum, the middle of the back streaked =: 
with dark purplish-bay and ashy-white. No bright 
bay, like that of albicollis, anywhere, except some 
edging on the wing coverts and inner secondaries ; 
middle and greater coverts tipped with white, form- 
ing two bars; no yellow anywhere; Dill and feet 
reddish. Young birds have the black of the head 
replaced by very rich warm brown, the white of the 
head by pale brownish, and the general ash has a 
at Fie. 89. White-crowned Sparrow. 
brownish suffusion, and the back is more like th 
of albicollis; but the two species can hardly be confounded. North America, 
especially eastern and rather northerly, not nearly so abundant in the United 
States as albicollis, but common in many sections in winter and during the 
migrations. Wuts., iv, 49, pl. 31, f. 4; Nurr., i, 479; Aup., iii, 157, pl. 
ee wODr IOs COORS) LOO. seus hf. oo. | 2 « GEUCOPHRYS: 
Var. GAmBeLtt. Exactly like the last, but the lores gray or ashy, continuous 
with the white stripe over the eye, 7. e., the black of the forehead does not descend 
to the eye. Perhaps averaging a trifle smaller, and duller colored. Mr. Allen tells 
me he has seen specimens that resembled lewcophrys on one side of the head, and 
gambelii on the other! Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, there mostly replacing true 
leucophrys. Nurr., 2d ed. i, 556; Bp., 460; Coor., 195. 
Golden-crowned Sparrow. Adults of both sexes with the forehead and 
sides of the crown black, enclosing a dull yellow coronal patch; edge of the 
wing yellow. Above, much like albicollis, but with less bay; below, much 
like lewcophrys, but the ashy not so pure; larger than either. Young have 
the black of the crown replaced by brown, but there are always traces of the 
yellow on crown and wings. Pacific coast (to the Rocky Mountains?), 
abundant. Lringilla atricapilla Aup., iii, 162, pl. 193; F. aurocapilla 
Mintieecdcd. 1 D9). bp., 461s Coor., 197. . . . « . CORONATA. 
Harris's Sparrow. Adult g with whole crown, face and throat jet-black ; 
sides of the head pale ash, the auriculars darker ash, bounded by a black 
line starting behind the eye and curving around them. Under parts nearly 
pure white, but slightly ashy before and faintly brownish-washed behind, 
the sides with a few dusky streaks, the breast with a few black ones con- 
tinued from the black throat-patch ; back nearly as in coronata; bill and toes 
dark, tarsi pale; no yellow anywhere; very large, tail about 54; @ similar, 
but with much less black on head and throat. This and coronata represent 
the maximum dimensions above given, while the other two species are at 
or near the minimum. Missouri region; a bird of imposing appearance 
for a sparrow. J. querula Nutt.,i, 2d ed. 555; F. harrisii Aup., vil, 
PEED SAM Dewd4OO ns is as ss el Uy ~ QUERULA. 
Oxzs. Morton’s finch, 7. mortonii Avp., iii, 151, is a South American species 
of this genus (Z. matutina), erroneously attributed to California. 
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