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ZONOTRICHIA. 41& 
light buffy brown, broadly streaked with dusky ; adult with whole chin and 
throat, lores, and top of head uniform black. 
Adult: Sides of head dull brownish white or light grayish brown; rest 
of head mainly uniform black; breast (except centrally) and belly pure 
white. Jmmature: Top of head black, but this much obscured by 
whitish or buffy borders to feathers; whole side of head, including sides 
of forehead and superciliary region, buffy; chin and throat white, bor- 
dered along each side by a blackish streak (sometimes blotched with 
black); middle of chest blotched or spotted with black or dark brown; 
otherwise like adult; length 6.75-7.75, wing 3.20-3.60 (average about 
3.40), tail 3.30-3.75. Eggs (identification somewhat doubtful), .87 x .68, 
buffy whitish, thickly speckled with burnt-umber, slightly mixed with 
purplish gray. Hab. More eastern Great Plains and more western 
prairies, breeding from eastern Montana (?) north to Manitoba; south, 
in winter, to Texas, and east to Iowa, western Illinois, Missouri, ete. 
553. Z. querula (Nurt.). Harris’s Sparrow. 
«. Top of head black or brown, divided by a distinct median stripe of white, buff, 
yellow, or gray; sides and flanks grayish brown, without distinct streaks, 
or else with sides of forehead yellow and back rusty brown; adults with 
chin and throat whitish or light grayish. 
v.. Back gray, grayish brown, or smoky brown, streaked with brown or black ; 
chin and throat not abruptly white; sides of forehead not yellow. 
cl. Middle crown-stripe entirely white, ashy, or buffy ; top of head without 
yellow. 
Adults with lateral crown-stripes deep black, median stripe white or 
pale ashy; a broad white superciliary stripe, below which is a 
narrower black stripe behind eye (sometimes continued in front of 
it). Immature, with lateral crown-stripes and streak behind eye 
chestnut-brown or burnt-umber brown, middle crown-stripe dull 
buffy, superciliary stripe dull light buffy grayish. ; 
d', Edge of wing white; white or buffy median crown-stripe broad as 
or broader than lateral black or brown stripes; adults with 
back ashy streaked with burnt-umber or vandyke-brown, and 
chest ashy. 
* ©. Lores black or dark brownish, the white, grayish, or dull buff 
superciliary stripe not reaching to bill; length 6.50-7.50, 
wing 3.00-3.30 (3.19), tail 2.80-3.20 (3.00), exposed culmen 
.B8-.45 (41), tarsus .90-.98 (.91). Eggs .85 x .61, pale 
greenish blue, varying to pale cinnamon-brown, speckled, 
sprinkled, or spotted with reddish brown. Hab. Breeding 
from higher mountain ranges of western United States, 
Sierra Nevada, Rocky Mountains, and eastward, north of 
Great Lakes, to Labrador; in winter, over whole of United 
States, and south into Mexico. 
554. Z. leucophrys (Forst.). White-crowned Sparrow. 
