WITH BROWN PREDOMINATING 295 
554b. NUTTALL SPARROW. — Zonotrichia leucophrys 
nuttalli. 
Famity: The Finches, Sparrows, ete. 
Length: 6.00-7.00. 
Adults: Like the white-crowned sparrow, but white superciliary stripe 
extending to bill; lores white, and general coloration brown. : 
Geographical Distribution: British Columbia to Southern California, 
south in winter to Lower California. 
California Breeding Range: Humid coast belt from Oregon south to 
Point Sur. 
Breeding Season: March 15 to May 1. 
Nest: Bulky ; of weed stems, and lined with grasses ; placed in thick 
clumps of weeds or low trees or bushes. 
Eggs: 3 to 5; pale greenish blue, spotted with pale rusty. Size 0.87 X 
0.64. 
LIKE the intermediate sparrow, the Nuttall Sparrow is 
also a subspecies of the white-crowned, and similar in 
habits. It is a resident of the coast belt in the vicinity 
of Santa Cruz, and straggles as far south as Los Angeles 
in winter. 
557. GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW. — Zonotrichia 
coronata, 
Famity: The Finches, Sparrows, ete. 
Length : 7.00-8.00. 
Adults: Upper parts olive-brown, streaked on the back with rusty 
black ; two white wing-bars ; middle of crown yellow, between two 
black lines, the yellow merging to gray for the last third ; under 
parts gray, tinged with brown on sides. 
Young: Similar, with forehead suffused with yellow, and black crown. 
stripes streaked with brown ; under parts soiled white. 
Geographical Distribution : Pacific Coast, Southern California to Alaska, 
straggling to the Rocky Mountains and Wisconsin. 
Breeding Range: Alaska. 
Lreeding Season: June. 
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