5(i() NOirril AMElilCAN lUUDS. 



I'oMMON CliAHACTKiis. Ffiillicrs of iiitoisciipiiliir rpprioii liliu;kisli centrally, pass- 

 iiij? into nifoiis-lu-own and imIucI with pal.T. llunip and iippm- tail-Vovort.s 

 iniii'onii oliviiCL'ous-asliy blown. Two wiiito bands on the wings; the tertials 

 cdfrcil with iiilbiis. lionfiiih without stivaks. Head above marked with blaok, 

 and generally with white. Cheeks plumbeons. 



A. Black of the ciown divided by a median light stripe. Juguluni ashy. 

 a. Throat ashy, unii'orm with the brciust 



1. Z. leucophrys. Median stripe of the crown wliite. A black 

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



a. A black stripe from the eye to forehead, across lore. I fab. 

 Eastern Province of North America, west throughout Rocky 

 Mountains; Cape St. LucHs in winter vnr. le ii cophrys . 



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

 n.shy. Ilah. Western I'lovince North America, t>ast to Rocky 

 Mountains \M:yambeli. 



2. Z. coroiiata. ^Median stripe of ei-own yellow foi' anterior and 

 ash lor posteiior half. Black of crown conn'ng down to eye and 

 ear covert.s, leaving no light superciliary stripe. Ilah. Pacific 

 Province of North America; accidental east of 8icrra Nevada. 



i). Throat pin'e white, in sharp contrast with the dark ash of cheeks 

 and jugulum. 



3. Z. albicoXlis. Median stripe of crown white. A light super- 

 ciliary strijie, yellow antci^ior to the eye, and white behind it; a 

 black streak along upper edge of car-coverts. Ilab. Eastern Prov- 

 ince of North America. 



B. Black of the crown not divided, but continuou.^;. Jugulum white. 



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

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

 Lower parts pure white;. Hub. Missouri Plains. 



Zonotrichia leucophrys, Sw.unson. 



WHITE-CEOWNED SPABBOW. 



Eiiiberim Uucophnjx, Foi;.sti.:ii, Pliilos. Trans. LXII, 1772, 382, 426. — Omklik, Syst Nat. 

 I, 1788, 874. - Wir.soN, Am. Orii. IV, 1811, 1!), pi. .vx.vi, f. 4. Frhuiilln {Z,molndmi\ 

 leuo,,,hr,is, Sw. F. H. Am. II, 1831, 25.5. Znnntrkhia leucophn/s, Ilox. List, 1838 - 

 IH. (V.nsp. lS.-)0, 478.-1UII!!., Birds N. Am. IS.-iS, 4.18, pi. Ixi.x, f. 2.-Coitk.s, 

 P. A. X. S. 18(il, 224. — M,\vNAi!i>, Birds E. Ma.s.s. lS7(t, 118. — Coopkii, Orn. Tal. \, 

 19ti. — Sa.muki,s, 30i). FriiKji/lii /i-iimp/iri/s, Aun. Orn. Biog, II, 1834, 88- V .''.15 

 pi. .•xiv.-lB. Sy,,. 1830, 121.-1... Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 157, pi. c.xcii. ' > Sptella 

 vm.,im„, BoNAi'. Comp. Rond. 1853 (cith.-r this or Z. gtunbdi). iniitc-crnvncd 

 Sparroii; ri;xx.\NT. 



Figured ill Hiiffox, Ois. IV, 192, pi. ccxxiii, f. 2, Winter. 



Si>. Char. Head aliove, upper half of loral region from the bill, and a narrow line 

 through and behind the eye to the occiput, black; a hmgiludimd patch in the mid.lle of 

 the crown, and a short line from above the anterior corn.'r of the eve, the two confluent 

 on the occiput, wliite. Si.les of the head, forepart of breast, and lower neck all round, 

 pale ash, lightest beneath, and shading insensibly into the whiti.sh of the belly and chin \ 

 sides of belly and under tiiil-cov.'rls tinged with yellowish-brown. Inter.scapular region 

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

 Two white bauds on the wing. 



