336 BIEDS — FRmaiLLID^. 



Thickets along railroads are favorite resorts of this species, and a tele- 

 graph wire is a favorite perch while singing. 



The nest ('i the Field Sparrow is placo(! on the ground, in a t, ';k of 

 grc. _ ;, or in a low bush or ties but a few inohes above the grou .t is 



composed of grass, with a foundation of dead leaves and a lining of hair. 

 The eggs are four or five, white, more or less thickly spotted with reddish- 

 brown. 



Genos ZONOIRICHIA. SwaineoD. 



Bjdy rather stout. Bill slightly uotuhed, eoruewhTt conipreesed, excavated inside. 

 Wings moderate, rounded, not reaching to middle of tail; gecondarits and tertiala equal, 

 ahortar than the flrst priiuary. Tail roiindtd, about equal to the wings. Feet stout; 

 tarsus rather longer than middle toe. Hind toe longer than lateral. Claws slender and 

 considerably curved. 



ZONOTEICHIA ALBICOLLIS (Gm.) Bp. 

 AVliite-tiaroated. iSparrow^. 



Fr'mij il la pennsi/Ieanica, Kirtland, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 164, 183. — Read, Proc. Phila. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci., vi, 1853, 395. 



Zonotrichia alhicoHis, Baird, P. K. R. Rep., ix, 1858; 464 — Wheaton, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 

 1860, 366; Reprint, 1861, 8 ; Food of Biros, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. fur 1874, 566; Re- 

 print, 1875, 6. — Langdon, Cat. Birds of Cin., Ilr77, 9;' Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 175; Reprint, 9. 



White-throated Finch, KiKTLANi), Fam. Visitor, i, 1850, 148, 164. 



Fnngilla anicollis, Gmklin, Syst. Nat,, i, 1788, 926. 

 FnngiUa penns ijlvanica, Latham, Ind. Orn., 1790, 446. 

 Zonotrichia aVncolKs, Bonapartk, Cousp. A.V., 18J0, 478. 



Adult male, with the crown black, divided by a median white stripe, bounded by a 

 white superciliary line and yellow spot fi'om nostril to the eye; below this a black stripe 

 through the eye; below this a maxillary black snipe bounding the definitely pnre white 

 throat, sharply contrasted with the dark ash of the breast and sides of the neik and 

 head. Edge of whig yellow . Back continuously streaked with black, chestnut, and fnlvoua- 

 white; rump ashy, unruarked. Wings much edgtd with bay, the white tips of the 

 median and greater coverts forming two conspicuous bars; quills and tail feathers 

 dusky, with pale edges. Below, white, shaded with ashy-brown on sides, the ash deeper 



Spizella pallida (Sw,) Bp. 

 Clay-colored Sparro-w. 



Syizella pallida, Wheaton, Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 566; Reprint, 

 1875, 6. 



Emberiza pallida. Swainson and Richardson, Fn. Bor.-Aoi., ii, 1831, 251. 

 Spizella pallida, Bonaparte, List, 1838, 33, 



Hahitat, from Texas to the Upper Missouri and Saskatchewan ; east to Iowa, Wiscon- 

 sin, and Illinois. Given as a bird of Ohio by me in 1875, on what I now consider insuf- 

 ficient authority. 



