66 THE WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW. 
The Harris Sparrow appears casually in Ilinois and Wisconsin during 
migrations, but no other instance of its occurrence has been reported from 
any point further east. 
No. 32. 
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW. 
A. O. U. No. 554. Zonotrichia leucophrys (Forst.). 
Description.—Adult: Crown pure white, becoming gray behind; lateral 
crown-stripes meeting in front, and post-ocular stripes, jet black, separated by 
white stripe beginning at anterior angle of eye; remainder of head, neck all around, 
and entire under parts slaty gray, darkest on nape, whitening on chin and belly, 
with a tawny wash on flanks and crissum; back and scapulars brown (burnt 
umber) edged with gray; rump and upper tail-coverts tawny olivaceous; wings 
and tail fuscous, the tertials dark-centered with edgings of bay and white; middle 
and greater coverts tipped with white, forming two inconspicuous wing-bars; 
rectrices with brown shafts and tawny edgings; bill reddish brown with tip of 
maxilla black. Young of the year have the black of head replaced by deep chest- 
nut, and the white by ochraceo-fuscous or gray; in general darker and browner 
above than adult. Length 6.50-7.00 (165.1-177.8) ; av. of seven Columbus speci- 
mens: wing 3.14 (79.8) ; tail 2.90 (73.7); bill .43 (10.9). 
Recognition Marks.—Sparrow size; broad white crown and jet black lateral 
stripes strongly contrasting; throat not definitely nor abruptly white. 
Nesting.—Does not breed in Ohio. Nest, on the ground or in bushes, of 
weeds and grasses lined with fine grass. Eggs, 4 or 5, pale bluish green, speckled 
and spotted with reddish brown, chiefly at the larger end. Avy. size, .gi x .61 
(Qazi 3x 15 05)))- 
General Range.—North America at large, breeding chiefly in the Rocky 
Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and northeast to Labrador. South in winter to 
the Valley of Mexico. 
Range in Ohio.—A regular spring and fall migrant, sometimes lingering 
into summer; not so common as the next species. 
THIS handsome and courtly gentleman, with his no less polished wife, 
is far more modest than his talents would warrant. Already this season we 
have leveled the glasses on a hundred heads, only to drop them again and 
exclaim ‘“\White-throat,” in a tone of mild disgust. But here at last on the 
tenth of May, we have come upon a company of the better birds holding court 
in a long, dense rose-briar thicket, which lines a sheltered fence. Our atten- 
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tion was attracted by a soft, varied whistle of gentle melancholy, a perform- 
ance which seemed to report correctly the sentiments of the whole party, for 
it was caught up and repeated at courteous intervals by half a dozen throats. 
