270 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



552. Chondestes grammacus (SAY). 



Lark Sparrow. 



Fringilla grammaca SAY, LONG'S Exp, II. 1823, 139. 

 Chondestes grammaca BONAP. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 32. 



[B 344, part, C 186, part, R 204, C 281, part.] 



HAB. Mississippi Valley region, from Ohio, Illinois, and Michigan to 

 the Plains, south to Eastern Texas. Accidental near the Atlantic coast 

 (Massachusetts, Long Island, New Jersey, and Washington, D. C.). 



552 a. Chondestes grammacus strigatus (SWAINS.). 



Western Lark Sparrow. 



Chondestes strigattis SWAINS. Phil. Mag. I. 1827, 435. 

 Chondestes grammaca strigata RIDGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. III. Aug. 

 24, 1880, 179. 



[B 344, part, C impart, R 204 a, C 281, /^.] 



HAB. Western United States, from the Plains to the Pacific coast, 

 south into Mexico. 



GENUS ZONOTRICHIA SWAINSON. 



Zonotrichia SWAINS. F. B. A. II. 1831, 493. Type, by elimination, 

 Emberiza leucophrys FOR ST. 



553. Zonotrichia querula (Nun.). 



Harris's Sparrow. 



Fringilla querula NUTT. Man. I. 2d ed. 1840, 555. 

 Zonotrichia querula GAMB. Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 2d ser. I. 

 1847, 51. 



[B 348, C 185, R 205, C 280.] 



HAB. Middle United States, from Missouri and Iowa west to Mid- 

 dle Kansas and Dakota, and from Texas north to the Red River of 

 the North. 



554. Zonotrichia leucophrys (FORST.). 



White-crowned Sparrow. 



Emberiza leucophrys FORST. Philos. Trans. LXII. 1772, 382, 426. 

 Z\onotrichid\ leucophrys SWAINS. F. B. A. II. 1831, 493. 



