WITH BROWN PREDOMINATING 225 



554 b. NUTTALL SPARROW. —Zo»o<ricAiafeja;op%* 

 nuttalli. 



Family : The Finches, Sparrows, etc. 



Length: 6.00-7.00. 



Adults: Like the white-crowned sparrow, but white superciliary stripe 



extending to bill ; lores white, and general coloration brown. 

 Geographical Bistributum : British Columbia to Southern California, 



south in winter to Lower California. 

 California Breeding Range: Humid coast belt from Oregon south to 



Point Sur. 

 Breeding Season: March 15 to May 1. 

 Nest : Bulky ; of weed stems, and lined with grasses ; placed in thick 



clumps of weeds or low trees or bushes. 

 Eggs .• 3 to 5 ; pale greenish blue, spotted with pale rusty. Size 0.87 X 

 . 0.64. 



Like the intermediate sparrow, the Nuttall Sparrow is 

 also a subspecies of the white-crowned, and similar in 

 habits. It is a resident of the coast belt in the vicinity 

 of Santa Cruz, and straggles as far south as Los Angeles 

 in winter. 



557. GOLDEN-CROWNED SF ARROW. — Zonotrichia 

 coronata. 



Family : The Finches, Sparrows, etc. 



Length: 7.00-8.00. 



Adults : Upper parts olive-brown, streaked on the back with rnsty 



black ; two white wing-bars ; middle of crown yellow, between two 



black lines, the yellow merging to gray for the last third ; under 



parts gray, tinged with brown on sides. 

 Young : Similar, with forehead suffused with yellow, and black crown. 



stripes streaked with brown ; under parts soiled white. 

 Geographiegil Distribution : Pacific Coast, Southern California to Alaska, 



straggling to the Rocky Mountains and Wisconsin. 

 Breeding Range : Alaska. 

 Breeding Season : June. 



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