PASSERES— FE1N01LLIDAE— Z. VAR, INTERMEDIA. 



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especially the bushes and thickets of the streams. I believe they winter in 

 greater or less numbers in Southern Arizona. 



No. 



7' 



So 



4 

 16 



42 



87 



107 



67 

 120 

 125 



Sex. 



£ acl. 

 Jjun. 

 9 ad. 



£ ad. 

 £ ad. 



£ ad. 

 £ ad. 

 9 ad. 

 Ad. 

 9 ad. 

 9 ad. 



Locality. 



Date 



Collector. 



Cull Run, Nev ' May 



Daneills's Canon, Utah ; Aug. 

 Strawberry Valley, .Vug. 

 Utah. 



Denver, Colo \ May 



do May 



do May 



do ; May 



.... do [ May 



do June 



Camp Bowie, Ariz j Oct. 



do Oct. 



1871 



1S72 

 1S72 



1S73 

 lS73 

 1S73 

 1S73 

 1873 

 1S73 

 1S73 

 ■873 



F. Bischoff 



II. W. Henshaw 

 do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



Dr. J. T. Rothrock . 

 Dr. C. G.Newberry. 

 do 



Wing. 



3.02 



3-'5 

 3- 16 



2.95 

 3.1S 



2.95 



Tail. 



3.16 



3-3 2 

 3-12 



3-12 



3.00 



3-3° 

 3.00 



3. II 



Bill. 



°-43 



o-43 

 0.44 



°-43 

 o-43 

 0.50 

 o. 46 



0.44 



Tarsus. 



o. 92 

 0.86 

 0.03 

 0.S5 

 0.S5 

 0.95 

 o. SS 

 0.S5 



ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS (Forst.), var. INTERMEDIA, Ridgw. 



Ricigway's .Sparrow. 



Plate VII, Figs. 1, 2. 



Zonotrichia leucoplirys var. intermedia, Ridg., MS. — Coues, Cheek-List, app., No. 

 1S3&. — Yarrow & Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 

 1874, 14— Henshaw, An. Lye. Nat, Hist. N. Y., xii, 1874, 6.— Id., An. List 

 Birds Utali, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 44.— M., Rep. Orn. Specs., 187.5, 

 Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 62, 112.— Cotes, D. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1874, 156. 



Zonotrichia leucoplirys var. gambeli, Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 145 (in part). 



Zonotrichia intermedia, Yarrow, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1871, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 35. 



Zonotrichia gambelii, Bd., Ives' Col. Exped., 1857-58, pt. iv, G. — Id., Birds N. A., 

 1858, 400.— LI., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1850, Birds, 15. — 

 Heerm., P. R. R. Rep., x, pt. ii, 1859, 48 (New Mexieo ; Texas).— Ken- 

 nerly, P. R, R. Rep., Whipple's Route, 1850, 28. — Henry, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sei. Phila., 1850, 107 (New Mexico).— Coop. & Suckl., P. R. R. Rep., 

 xii, pt. ii, 1860, 201.— Hayd., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, xii, 1802, 100.— Coues, 

 Proc. Aead. Nat, Sei. Phila., 1800, 84 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.).— Id., ih., 1808, 

 83. — Stev., U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1870, 404. — Allen, Bui. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., 1872, 177 (Wahsatch Mountains). — Hold., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., xv, 1872, 199.— MERRIAM, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 681. 



Under the variety intermedia, Mr. Ridgway distinguishes the Middle 

 Province form from the true gambeli as restricted to the Pacific coast. This 

 variety is to be known by its lighter coloration and the chestnut-brown 

 dorsal streaks instead of black. Up to the 10fh of May, a few individuals 

 about Denver were seen accompanying flocks of the preceding; but they 



