THE WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW. 309 



DESCRIPTION. 



Above olivaceous-brown ; beneath white ; the breast and sides of body j ellowish- 

 brown, obsolete!}' streaked with plumbeous ; sides of head and body, a central stripe 

 on the head above, a maxillary stripe, and indistinct longitudinal streaks on the 

 breast, ashy-brown ; the sides and the breast tinged with yellowish; the maxillary 

 stripe cuts off a white one above it; a superciliary stripe is bright-yellow anterior to 

 the eye, and plumbeous above and behind it ; edge of wing yellow ; bill blue. 



Length, about six inches ; wing, two and fifty one-hundredths inches. 



This bird's habits and distribution are the same as those 

 of the preceding species, as also are the nests and eggs, 

 which are impossible of identification when placed side by 

 side. 



ZONOTRICHIA, SWAINSON. 



Zonotrichia, SWAINSON, Fauna Bor. Am., II. (1831). (Type Emberiza leucopkrys.) 

 Body rather stout; bill conical, slightly notched, somewhat compressed, excavated 

 inside ; the lower mandible rather longer than the upper ; gonys slightly convex ; 

 commissure nearly straight ; feet stout ; tarsus rather longer than middle toe ; the 

 lateral toes very nearly equal ; hind toe longer than the lateral ones, their claws just 

 reaching to base of middle one; inner claw contained twice in its toe proper; clawa 

 all slender and considerably curved ; wings moderate, not reaching to the middle of 

 the tail, but beyond the rump ; secondaries and tertials equal and considerably less 

 than longest primaries; second and third quills longest; first about equal to the fifth, 

 much longer than tertials; tail rather long, moderately rounded; the feathers not 

 very broad ; back streaked ; rump and under parts immaculate ; head black, or with 

 white, streaks, entirely different from the back. 



ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS. Swainsm. 

 The White-crowned Sparrow. 



Emberiza leucqphrys, Forster. Philos. Trans., LXII. (1772) 382, 426. Wils. Am. 

 Orn., IV. (1811) 49. 



Fringilla (Zonotrichia) leucophrys, Swainson. F. B. Am., II. (1831) 255. 

 Fringilla leucophrys, Audubon. Orn. Biog., II. (1834) 88; V. 515. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Head above, upper half of loral region from the bill, and a narrow line through 

 and behind the eye to the occiput, black; a longitudinal patch in the middle of the 

 crown, and a short line from above the anterior corner of the eye, the two confluent 

 on the occiput, white ; sides of the head, fore part of breast, and lower neck all 

 -ound, pale-ash, lightest beneath and shading insensibly into the whitish of the belly 

 and chin; sides of belly and under tail coverts tinged with yellowish-brown; inter- 

 scapular region streaked broadly with dark chestnut-brownish ; edges of the tertiariei 

 brownish-chestnut ; two white bands on the wing. 



