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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS EGGS. 



554. White-crowned Sparrow. Zonotrichia leucophrys. 



Range. North America breeding abundantly in Labrador and about Hudson 

 Bay, and casually in northern New England and in western United States in 

 the Rockies and Sierras. 



Winters along our Mexican border and southward. A hand- 

 some species with a broad white crown bordered on either side 

 by black, and with a white superciliary line and black lores ; 

 the underparts are uniform grayish white. These birds appear 

 to be nowhere as common as the White-throated Sparrows with 

 which they associate during migrations and in the breeding 

 grounds. They build on the ground, generally near the edges 

 [Pale greenish blue.] O f WO ods or in clearings, and lay from four to six eggs similar 

 but larger, and with as much variation in markings as those of the Song Spar- 

 row; pale greenish blue, spotted and splashed with reddish brown and grayish. 

 Size .90 x .65. Data. Nachook, Labrador, June 10, 1897. Nest of fine grasses 

 on the ground in a clump of grass. Collector, G. Ford. 



Photo by ('. H. Merrill. 

 NEST AND EGGS OF SAVANNA SPARROW. 



