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WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW. 



ZONOTRICIIIA LEUCOPHRYS {Forst.) Sw. 



Chats. Adult, of both sexes : Crown of head white, enclosing a 

 broad black band on either side, which meets its fellow across 

 forehead and descends to fill the lores, and bounded by a black 

 stiipe from the eye to the nape ; lower eyelid wiiite. General 

 color dark ash, paler below than above, whitening on chin and 

 belly, brownish on the flanks and under tail-coverts, the middle 

 of the back streaked with purplish-bay and ashy-white. Wing- 

 coverts and inner quills edged with bay ; wings with two white 

 cross-bars ; no yellow on head or wing ; bill and feet reddish. 

 Young : The black of the head of the adults replaced by rich 

 warm brown, the white by pale brown, and the general ashy color 

 obscured with brownish. Size of ^T. albicollis. 



This elegant Sparrow, not inferior in size and 

 beauty to the last species described, is a bird of the 

 same general habits and appearance, and somewhat 

 similar distribution ; but it is on the whole more north- 

 erly, more irregular in its appearance, and not so 

 common. It is placed by Mr. Allen in the same 

 Faunal category as the White-throat, as a species lim- 

 ited in southern distribution in the breeding season 

 by the Canadian Fauna ; but might perhaps be better 

 considered as a member of the Hudsonian, though cer- 

 tainly overlapping the other. It is scarcely known in 

 New England except as a migrant and occasional 

 winter loiterer in southern portions. It is, however, au- 

 thenticated as breeding within our limits. Dr. Brewer 

 has given such a record (Bull. Nutt. Club, iii, 1878, 

 p. 195), Mr. H. E. Boughton, of Rudand, Vermont, 

 having found a pair breeding in that locality. The 

 nest was situated in a clump of blackberry and maple 



