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Z. leucojplirys. (Gtr. XevKos- leucos, white ; o^pis, ophrus, eyebrow. Fig. 242.) White- 

 browedICrown Sparrow. $ 9 , adult : Crown pui'e white, enclosing on either side a broad 

 black stmpe that meets its fellow on the forehead and descends the lores to the level of the eyes, 

 and bounded by another narrow black stripe that starts behind the eye and curves around the 

 side of the hind-head, nearly meeting its fellow on the nape ; edge of under eyelid white. Or, 

 we may say, crown black, enclosing a median white stripe and two lateral white stripes, all 

 confluent on the hind head. No yeUow anywhere. General color a fine dark ash, paler below, 

 whitening insensibly on chin and belly, more brownish on the rump, changing to dull brownish 

 on the flanks and crissum, the middle of the back streaked with dark purplish-bay and ashy- 

 white. No bright bay, like that of albicollis, aatywheTe, except some edging on the wing- 

 coverts and inner secondaries ; middle and greater coverts tipped with white, forming two bars. 

 BUI and feet reddish. Length 6.25-7.00; extent 9.20-10.30 ; wing and tail 2.90-3.20 ; usually 

 6.75 — 9.50 — 3.10. Young : Black of the head replaced by very rich warm brown, the white of 

 the head by pale brownish ; the general ash has a brownish suffusion, and the back is more like 

 thut oialbicolUs, being streaked with dusky 

 and ochrey-brown ; but the two species 

 'cannot be confounded. Very young: Be- 

 fore the first moult, there are indications of 

 the head markings as last described ; but 

 the whole upper parts, sides of the neck 

 and fore under parts are streaked with 

 blackish and ochrey-brown or whitish. 

 North Amer., especially eastern and rather 

 northerly ; W. to the Rocky Mts., where 

 mixed with Z. I. intermedia; Greenland ; 

 Cape St. Lucas. Not nearly so abundant 

 in the U. S. as albicollis, but common in 

 many sections in winter and during the 

 migrations. Breeds occasionally in North- 

 em New England, and plentifully in Lab- 

 rador, where it is one of the commonest 



sparrows. Nesting the same as that of j-i,,. ^42. - White-browed Crown Sparrow, reduced. 



albicolUs, and eggs undistinguishable. (Sheppard del. Nichols sc. ) 



Z. 1. interme'dia. (Lat. intermedia, intermediate, in the middle.) Intermediate Crovstn 

 Sparrow. Exactly like the last, but lores gray or ashy, continuous with the white stripe over 

 the eye, *'. e., the black of the forehead does not descend to the eye. Perhaps averaging a trifle 

 smaller, and duller colored. Some specimens resemble leucophrys on one side of the head, and 

 i/ntermed/ia on the other. Rocky Mts. to the Pacific, mostly replacing true leucophrys. (Z. 

 gamheli Bd., 1858, Cones, 1872, nee Nutt.) 



Z. gamOieU. (To Wm. Gambel, of Phila.) Gambel's Crown Sparrow. Markings of the 

 head much the same as in Z. I. intermedia; body colors entirely different, and almost exactly as 

 in coronata. No. 279. Streaking of the back sooty-black. Edge and lining of the wing yellow, 

 as in coronata and alUcolKs. Bill in dried specimens blackish and yellow, not reddish. Size of 

 coronata. Pacific coast, U. S., southerly. (Z. gambeU Nutt., 1840, nee Baird, Coues.) 

 Z. corona'ta. (Lat. coronata, crowned ; corona, a crown.) Golden Crown Sparrow. 

 $ 9 , adult : Forehead and sides of the crown black, enclosing a dull yellow coronal patch 

 anteriorly, an ashy one posteriorly ; a yellow spot over eye ; lores black. Edge of the wing 

 yellow. Above, much like albicollis, but with less bay and no whitish ; two white wing-bars. 

 Below, including sides of head and neck, ashy, passing inseiisibly into whitish on the belly, and 

 much shaded with brownish on the flanks and crissum ; thus much like leucophrys, but the 



