364 Birds of Colorado 
Description.—Male—Top of the head, face and throat black; sides 
of the head and ear-coverts light brown; back and rump brown, the 
former streaked with darker; wings and tail dusky, the middle and 
greater-coverts tipped with white, forming a wing-band ; below white, 
becoming pale brown on the flanks, which are streaked more or less 
with chestnut and dusky ; iris brown, bill coral-red, legs light brown. 
Length 7-25; wing 3-5; tail 3-25; culmen -52; tarsus -90. 
The female resembles the male—wing 3-25; a young bird has the 
black crown-feathers edged with grey, the throat and chest white, 
the latter spotted with dusky. 
Distribution.—Middle North America, breeding on the shores of 
Hudson Bay and south across the great plains and Mississippi Valley, 
to winter in Texas. 
A rare straggler in Colorado in winter or on migration; a male in 
autumn dress, mingled with a flock of Juncos, was shot near Pueblo, 
October 19th, 1886, by Beckham; and Cooke observed one near Holly, 
in the south-east corner of the State, on May 10th, migrating with 
White-crowned Sparrows. Smith reports a female shot by W. C. Ferril, 
October 9th, 1907, near Kit Carson, in Cheyenne co., associating with 
a flock of Tree- and Vesper-Sparrows, while there are two Colorado 
examples in the Colorado College Museum—one from Salida, taken 
December 15th, 1907, by J. W. Frey, and another from Butte, El Paso 
co., taken January 24th, 1908, by C. E. Aiken. 
White-crowned Sparrow. Zonotrichia leucophrys. 
A.O.U. Checklist no 554—Colorado Records—Allen 72, pp. 156, 163 ; 
Aiken 72, p. 200; Trippe 74, p. 155; Henshaw 75, p. 260; Scott 79, 
p. 94; Minot 80, p. 229; Drew 81, p. 138; 85, p. 16; Tresz 81, p. 246 ; 
Allen & Brewster 83, p. 191; Beckham 85, p. 141; Morrison 88, p. 74 ; 
89, p. 37; Kellogg 90, p. 89; Anthony 91, p. 379 ; McGregor 97, p. 38 ; 
Cooke 97, pp. 18, 102, 214; Keyser 02, pp. 54, 238, 281; Henderson 
03, p. 236; 09, p. 236; Gilman 07, p. 157; Warren 08, p. 23; 
Rockwell 08, p. 172. 
Description.—Adult Male—Crown with a median white stripe separat- 
ing two broad lateral black ones; these are produced over the lores 
and cut off the narrow, white superciliary stripe in front; a narrow, 
postocular black stripe bounds the superciliary stripe below; hind- 
neck, breast and back, ashy-grey, striped with dark brown; rump and 
tail plain brown, wings dusky, edged with paler or rufous; the middle 
and greater coverts white-tipped, forming a double wing-band ; below 
the ashy becomes whitish on the chin and abdomen, with a wash of pale 
buffy on the flanks and under tail-coverts; iris brown, bill reddish- 
brown, dusky at the tip; legs horny-brown. Length 6-65; wing 
3-30; tail 3-0; culmen -5; tarsus -85. 
