Fniv«JiM-in.i: — TiiH fixciiks. 



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r>. S. atrigularis. Ilciirl and neck all round, ami ninip, tinifnrm 

 dark ash, ^Madually liidiii,:,' into white on the alxloiiu-n ; win^'- 

 Itands in<listinrt ; hill li^dit hrownish-red. .1'/. Lores, rliin, and 

 \\\t\H-v i»ai« of thnuit hla<-k. Jur. without l)laek ahout the head. 

 (K.!.',L'< miknown.) Huh. A<ljai'ent poitions <>r Mexieo and southi'ni 

 Miiidle I'ntvinee nf i'nited States (l'\»it Whipple, Arizona, CoL'Ks; 

 Cape St. Lueas, Xantus). 



Spizella monticola, Haikd. 



TBEE 8FABR0V^ 



Fn'iuj'Ioi mimficitlrr^ T.m. Syst. Xat. I, 1788, 912. Znnntrirhin miwticnhi, Gii.vy, ('.tntTa. 

 SpihitcH numtio'hix, (.'auams, Mii>. Hciii. 18,'>1, 134. Sjtizrlfn innutoo/i>, JJAiitK, lUnls 

 N. Am. 18,-,s, 47-2. — Coves, V. A. N. S. 18»!1, 224 (I^ihrad-.r). —(<... i-kii & .Sr« ki.ky, 

 •_o:5 iWiiNliiiiu'tuii T»T.). — Dali, & liANNisTKii. Tr. ( "h. A.-. I, ]»;\), 28'!. — Coui-ki:, 

 (>iu. (id. 1, iio»i. — Samtki-s, :n7. P'lssrr CI, I'uf, lists, Hi;i.ns,»n, Oni. HI, 17»;o, 102. 

 Fn'ii'fif/ii ,■„„,, Jnisis, Lath. Indtx, \, 17!»o, 4;}4. — Ald. Orii. I'.i.)-.,'. II, I5.34, ')11 ; 

 V, .'104, pi. cl.x.xxviii. — Max. Cab. .luur. VI, 1>.')S, 2S0. EmbirhK auuidtii.sis, 8w. 

 y. W. Am. II, 1831, 202. — Aro. Syn. 1839. — In. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 83, pi. olxvi. 

 Sjrizi'lhi cnnathnsis^ I»o\. List, 1838. — In. C'onspfctus, ISiiO, 480. Friinjilln. arhorec, 

 Wii.s. Am. Oiii. II, l>lo, 12, pi. xii, f. 3. Mninatu du Canada, liuFFu.v, PI. Eul. 

 223, f. 2. ''Mountain Finch," Lami. Syn. II, 1, 205. 



Sp. Chau. Middle of baek with the feathers dark hrown centrally, tluMi rufous, and 



edtred with pale fulvcMis (sometimes with whit- 

 ish). Hood ami upper jiart of nape conMmious 

 ehestnut ; a line of the same from behind the 

 eye, a.s well as a short maxillary stripe. .Side.s 

 of head and neek ashy. A l»road lii^ht .super- 

 ciliary band. Beneath whitish, tin^'-cd with ful- 

 vous; the thrt»at. with a.shy : a small circular 

 blotch of brownish in the middle of the upper 

 part of the l>reast; the .ssides ehestnut. Edp's of 

 tail-feathers, primary (piills, and two bands acr«)ss 

 the tips of the secondaries, white. Tertiaries 

 n(\arly Idaek : ed-jed externally with rufous, turn- 

 inj; to white near the tips. Lower jaw yellow; 

 upper black. Yomiir bird streaked on throat 

 and lireast, as well as on crown, Leniith, G.25 

 inches ; winir, .J.OO. 



Had. Eastern North America to the ^[issouri. north to Arctic Ocean ; al.^so on Pole 

 Creek and Little Colorado River, New ;Mexico ; Western Nevada. 



Tliis species varies in the aiiiount ot whitish edging to the tiuills and 

 tail. 



Habits. Essentially a nortliern bird, the Tree Sparrow breeds in high 

 Arctic regions, only appearing in winter within tlie United States, It is then 

 common as far south as Pennsylvania. A few winter in South Carolina. 



It arrives on the Saskatchewan in the latter ])art of April, where it only 



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