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XOIJTll AMKUICAN IJIUD.^. 



Common" (^lARAf'TERS. Featliors of intorscipular rofrion l»laokish centrally, pass- 

 inj; into lutoiis-hrMWii ami ctlp-il with paltT. Uuinp and upper tail-roverts 

 uniform olivaceous-jishy brown. Two white hands on the wings; the tt-rtials 

 edired with nitons. IJeneath witliout streaks. Head ahove marked with black, 

 and prenerally with white. Cheeks plumbeous. 



A, Hlaek of the erown divided by a median light stripe. Jngulum ashy, 

 a. Throat tushy, uniform with the breaj^t 



1. Z. leucophrys. Median stripe of the erown white. A lilack 

 stripe from beiiind the eye, and a white superciliary stripe. 



a. A black stripe from the eye to forehead, a«Toss lore. Jf<ih. 

 Eastern Province of North America, west throughout Rocky 

 Momitains; Cape St. Lucks in winter . . var. J e n rophrys . 

 /3. No black streak in front of eye, the lores being wholly 

 a«shy. Ilab. Western Province North America, east to Rocky 

 Mountains ........ \m: gamhelL 



2. Z. coronata. Median stripe of crown yellow for anterior and 

 ash for posterior half. Black of crown coming down to eye and 

 ear coverts, h'aving no light superciliary stripe. Hah. Pacific 

 Province of North America; accidental east of Sierra Nevada. 



h. Throat pure white, in sharp contrast with the dark a^jh of cheeks 



and juguluni. 



o. Z. albicollis. Median stripe of crown white. A light super- 

 ciliary stripe, yellow anterior to the eye, and white behind it; a 

 black streak along upper edge of ear-coverts. Hah. Eastern Prov- 

 ince of North America. 

 B« Black of the crown not divided, but continuous. Jugulum white. 



4. Z. quenila. Lores forepart of cheeks, with the chin and 

 throat, deep black; whole side of head behind the eye, ashy. 

 Lower parts pure white. Hah. Mussouri Plains. 



Zonotrichia leucophrys, Swainsox 



WHITE-CBOWNED SPABBOW. 



Eutberiza leucophru^ Foksteh, Thilos. Trans. LXIl, 1772, 382, 426. — Gmelin, Syst Nat. 

 I, 1788, 874. — Wilson, Am. Orn. IV, 1811, 49, pi. xxxi, f. 4. FrhujiUn {Zminfrichia) 

 Icmnjihnj.s, S\\. F. B. Am. II, 1831, 255. Zinmtrkhia kucophnis, BoN. List, 1838. — 

 1b. C.nsp. 18.'>0, 478. — Baiki), Birds N. Am. 1858, 458, pi. lxi.x, f. 2. — CorF.s, 

 P. A. N. S. 1801, 224. — M.vvNAnn, liirds E. Mass. 187<», 118. —Cooper, Om. Cal. I, 

 19t>. —Samuels, 309. Friiujilln leucophriis, Arn. Orn. Biog, IT, 1834, 88; V, 515, 

 pL cxiv. — Ib. Syn. 1839, 121. — I b. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 157, nl. excii. ? Spizella 

 imuinui, BoxAi'. Conip. Rend. 1853 (either this or 2. gambeli). IVhite-crow^ncd 

 Spftn-on\ Pennant. 



Figured in Biffon. Ois. IV, 192, pi. coxxiii, f. 2. Winter. 



Sp. Char. Head above, upjHM- half of hnal region from the bill, and a narrow line 

 through and Ix-hind 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 continent 

 on the occiput, white. Si<les of the head, forepart of breast, an<l lower neck all round, 

 pale a^h, lightest beneath, ami shading insen.sibly into the whitish of the belly and chin ; 

 sides of belly and under tail-coverts tinged with yellow ish-broAvn. Interscapular region 

 streaked broadly with dark chestnut-brownish. Edges of the tertiaries brownish-chestnut. 

 Two white bauds on the wing. 



