ZONOTRICHIA^ ALBIGOLLIS, Bonap. 



(The American White-throated Sparrow.) 



By Mr. G. D. ROWLEY. 



(Plate XLVI.) 



The bird figured in company with the Buntings was exhibited by me at 

 the Zoological Society, June 4, 1872. It is a female, now in my collection, 

 which was captured "alive in a clap-net on the 22nd of March, 1872, at 

 Beven Dean, near Brighton, by a man catching Yellowhammers (^Emberiza 

 citrineHa), with which the Zonotrichia was in company. One previous 

 occurrence of this species in Great Britain has been already recorded in 

 the Society's 'Proceedings' for 1870, p. 52." This was the Aberdeen bird, 

 of which Professor Newton took charge ; and the following account of it 

 appears in 'Birds of the West of Scotland,' by Robert Gray, p. 138 : — "A 

 female specimen of this North-American bird was shot near the Broadhill, 

 on Aberdeen Links, by Alexander Mitchell, on the 17th of August, 1867, 

 and forwarded to me a few weeks afterwards by Mr. Angus, to whom 

 Mr. Mitchell had presented it. In March 1868 a notice of the occurrence 

 was communicated by Mr. Angus to the Natural- History Society of 

 Glasgow ; and a full description of the plumage, with other details, was 

 afterwards published in the 'Proceedings' of that Society, accompanied 

 by a Plate containing two figures which Mr. Sinclair had drawn for this 



■^ From ^covrjj a band or belt^ and Opl^, Tpcxo^j bair. 



