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FRINGILLIDiE, FINCHES, ETC. GEN. 74. 



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Fig. 87. Black-chinnecl 

 Sparrow. 



the tail (fully 3), which greatly exceeds the vfings (2J) ; the young lack 

 the black on the face, and have the crown wa,shcd with ashy-brown, and the 

 bill dusky above ; but may be known by the length of the tail. Mexico, 

 north to Colorado Valley; Cape St. Lucas. (S. atri- 

 mentalis Couch. 8. cana Bd. ,S'. evura Coues, Ibis, 

 1865, 118, 104.) Bd., 476; Coues, Proc. Phila. 

 Acad., 1866, 87; Coop., 210. . . . ateigularis. 



74. Genus ZONOTRICHIA Swainson. 

 *.j,*Embrachig oar largest and handsomest sparrows, 

 6t> to 71- inches long, the rounded wings and tail each 3 or 

 more ; the under parts witli very few streaks, or none, the middle of the back 

 streaked, the rump plain, the wings with two white cross-bars, and the head of the 

 adults with black. 



White-throated Sparrow. Peabody-Urd. Adult $ with the crown black, 

 divided by a median white stripe, l)ouuded by a white superciliary line and 

 yeUoiv »pot from nostrils to eye ; below this a bhick stripe through the eye ; 

 below this a maxillary black stripe bouuding the definitely pure white throat, 

 sharply contrasted with the dark ash of the breast aud sides of the neck and 

 head. Edge of loing yelloiv. Back continu- 

 ously streaked with black, chestnut and fulvous- 

 white ; rump ashy, uumarked. AVings much 

 edged with bay, the white tips of the median 

 aud greater coverts formiug two conspicuous 

 bars ; quills and tail feathers duskjs with pale 

 edges. Below, white, shaded with ashy-brown 

 ou sides, the ash deeper and purer on the 

 breast; bill dark, feet pale. ? , and immature 

 birds, with the black of the head replaced 

 by brown, the white of the throat less conspicuously contrasted with 

 the duller ash of surrouudiug parts, and frequently with obscure dusky 

 streaks on the breast and sides ; but the species may always be known by 

 the 3'ellow over the eye and on the edge of the wing (these never being 

 imperceptible), coupled with the large size and the general characters above 

 2;iven. A flue sparrow, abundant throughout Eastern North America in all 

 situations, generally in flocks, except when breeding; a pleasing if not 

 brilliant songster. Wils., iii, 51, pi. 22, f. 2; Nutt., i, 481; Aud., iii, 



153, pi. 191; Bd., 463 albicollis. 



J White-crovmed Sjxirrow. Adults of both sexes with the crown pure 

 white, enclosing on either side a broad black stripe that meets its fellow 

 ou the forehead and descends the lores to the level of the eyes, and bounded 

 by another narrow black stripe that starts behind tiic eye aud curves around 

 the side of the hind head, nearl3' meeting its fellow on tlie nape; edge of 

 under eyelid white. Or, we may say, crown black, enclosing a median 

 Avhite stripe and two lateral wliitc 8tri[)cs, all confluent ou the hind head. 



Fig. 88. White-tliroated Sparrow. 



