^>j^ NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



lauds of tlie Rocky Mountains, in tlie prairies. They were running on the 

 oround. He lieard no note Ironi them. He alterwurds saw a few stragfijlers, 

 in tlie early part of winter, in the thickets of the? forests of the ( •olumbia 

 River, near Fort Vancouver. He also met witli them, in the winter and 

 until late in the sprinj,', in the woods and thickets of California. 



Dr. Heennann found this species very abumUiut in the fall season, gener- 

 ally associated witli tlie California Song Sjjarrow and the Z. gamhcU. It 

 resorts to the deep shady thickets and woods, where it ])asses the greater part 

 of its time. In the moimtainous districts it prefers the hillsides, covered 

 with dense undergrowtli. It occasionally breeds in California, as Dr. Heer- 

 mann I'ound its nest in a l)ush near Sacram(>nto City. It was composed of 

 coarse stalks of weeds, and lined internally with fine roots. The eggs were 

 four in nundjer, and are described as Iiaving been of an ashy-white ground, 

 with markings of brown uud)er, at times appearing almost black from the 

 dei)th of their shade. Tiiey were marked also with a few spots of a neutral 



Lint. 



Many of these biids were obtained in Sitka and in Kodiak, by Rischoff, 

 and also in British C)oUunbia l)y Elliot. 



Only one specimen of this species was met with by Mr. Ridgway in his 

 explorations with ^Ir. Clarence King's survey. This was taken October 7, 

 1807, in the West Humboldt Mountains, in company with a Hock of Z. 

 yamhcli. 



Zonotrichia albicollis, Konap. 



WHXTE-THBOATED SFASBOW. 



Friii'jilla albicollis, G.mki,in, .Syst. X.il. I, 1788. 92ti. — WiLoON, .Vin. Orn. HI, 1811, 51, 



1)1. x.;ii, !'. 2. Licili'. Vciz. Doubl. Xo. 247 (1823). Zuiwtrichin ulhicoUis, Br. 



Coiis|). 1850, 478. — ('ATI. Mils, llciii. 1851, i;!2. - li.\iiti>, ninls N. Am. 1858, 4«3. 

 — Sa.muels, 311. I'lissi-r pniiittiihmiticus, IJitissoN, 17<)0, Appendix, 77. Friiujilla 

 pennHjilmiiicit, Lath. Iiidi-x, 1. 1790, 445. — Aui). Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 42; V, 497, 

 pi. viii. — 111. Syn. 1839, 121. — In. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 153, pi. cxci. —Max. Uak 

 Jour. VI, 1858, 27ti. Frinijilla (ZomlriMii) peumyhnuiai, Sw. F. B. Am. II, 1831, 

 250. Zoiwtrivhia peaiisylvaniLii, BoN. List, 1838. . 



Sr. CiiAii. Two black strijies on the crown, .separated l)y a median one of white, A 

 broad superciliary stripe from the Ijase of the mandible to the occinut, yellow as far as the 

 middle of the eye and white behind this. A broad black .streak on the side of the head 

 from behind the eye. Chin white, abrnptly dcjfmcd anfainst the dark ash of the sides of 

 the head and upper part of the breast, fading into white on the belly, and margined by a 

 narrow black maxillary line. Edge of wing and axillaries yellow. Back and edges of 

 secondaries rafon.s-browii, the former streaked with dark In-own. Two narrow white 

 bands across the wing-coverUs. Length, 7 inches; \v'ing, 3.10; tail, 3.20. Young of the 

 year not in the collection. 



IIaii. Eastern Province of North America to th<; Missouri. Breeding in most ol' the 

 northern United States and British Provinces, and wintering in tiie I'liited States almost to 

 their .-southern limit Aberdineshirc, England, August 17, 18(!7 (Zoologist, Feb., 1809, 

 1547 ; P. Z. S. 1857, 52). Scotland (Xkwton, Pr. Zo61. Soc. 1870, 52). 



