THE WHITE-THROATED SPARROW. 311 
of an inch in length, are proportionally broad, of a light sea-green 
color, mottled toward the larger end with brownish spots and 
blotches; a few spots of a lighter tint being dispersed over the 
whole. . . . We found many nests, which were all placed on the 
ground or among the moss, and were all constructed alike. This 
species deposit their eggs from the beginning to the end of June. 
In the beginning of August, I saw many young that were able to 
fly; and, by the twelfth of that month, the birds had already com- 
menced their southward migration. The young follow their parents 
until nearly full grown. 
“The food of this species, while in Labrador, consists of small 
coleopterous insects, grass seeds, and a variety of berries, as well 
as some minute shell-fish, for which they frequently search the mar- 
gins of ponds or the seashore. At the approach of autumn, they 
pursue insects on the wing to a short distance, and doubtless secure 
some in that manner.” 
The song of the White-crowned Sparrow consists of six 
or seven notes, the first of which is loud, clear, and musi- 
cal, although of a plaintive nature; the next broader, less 
firm, and seeming merely a second to the first; the rest 
form a cadence, diminishing in power to the last note, which 
sounds as if the final effort of the musician. These notes 
are repeated at short intervals during the whole day, —even 
on those dismal days produced by the thick fogs of the 
country where it breeds, and where this species is, of all, 
the most abundant. 
ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS. — Bonaparte. 
The White-throated Sparrow; Peabody Bird. 
Fringilla albicollis, Gmelin. Syst. Nat., I. (1788) 926. Wils. Am. Orn., III. 
(1811) 51. 
Zonotrichia albicollis, Bonap. Consp. (1850), 478. 
Fringilla Pennsylvanica, Audubon. Orn. Biog., I. (1831) 42; V. 497. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Two black stripes on the crown separated by a median one of white; a broad 
superciliary stripe from the base of the mandible to the occiput, yellow as far as 
the middle of the eye and white behind this; a broad black streak on the side of the 
