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Zonotrichia gambeli Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. AVheeler's Surv., 1876, 242 (Mount 

 Whitney, g. California, 2 specs. Sept. 1?).— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 iii, 1880, 179; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 207.— Codes, Check List, 2d ed., 

 1882, no. 278.— American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 

 556.— Anthony, Auk, iii, 1886, 168 (Washington Co., Oregon, breeding).— 

 Evermann, Auk, iii, 1886, 182 (Ventura Co., California, winter).— Fannin, 

 Check List Birds Brit. Columbia, 1891, 36 (w. side Cascade Mts.). 



Z-lonoirichia'] gambeli Coves, Key 1^. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 383.— Ridgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 416. 



IZonoirkhia leiKOphrys.] Var. gamhelii CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 145, part. 



Zonotrichia leucophrys, . . . var. gambeli CouES, Check List, 1873, no. 183a, part. 



Zonolrichia leucophryu, var. gambeli Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 569, part; iii, 514 (crit.).— Hbnshaw, Zool. Exp. W. 100th 

 Merid., 1875, pi. 7, fig. 1. 



Z.[_onotric]na} leucophrys gambeli 'Rihgw w , Auk, vii, Jan., 1890, 96 (crit.); Man. 

 N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 416. 



Zonotrichia leucophrys gambeli Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 351. — 

 American Ornithologists' Union Co.mmittee, Aux, vii, Jan., 1890, 65; Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 5546.— Palmer (T. S.), Auk, ix, 1892, 309 (coast from 

 San Francisco to British Columbia) . — Anthony, Zoe, iv, 1893, 241 (San Pedro 

 Martir Mts., Lower California, winter j. 



Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii Ghinnell, Pub. ii, Pasadena Acad. 8ci., 1898, 37 

 (Los Angeles, California, 1 spec. Jan. 13). 



[Zonotrichia leucophrys.] Subsp. a. Zonotrichia gambeli Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xii, 1888, 606 (Fort Simpson, Esquimault, San Juan I., Saturna I., 

 and Vancouver I., British Columbia, etc.). 



Fiingilla leucophrys (not Emberiza leucophrys Fqrster) Ndttall, Man. Orn. U. S. 

 and Canada, 2d ed., i, 1840, 553, part (Santa Barbara, California, Apr. 13). 



Zonotrichia leucophrys Heermann, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci., 2d ser., ii, 1852, 266 (San 

 Francisco, California, breeding). — Newberry, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., vi, 

 pt. iv., 1857, 87, part (San Francisco, California). 



Zonotrichia leucophrys nuttalli Ridgway, Auk, xvi, Jan., 1899, 36 (type from 

 Santa Cruz, mid. coast, California; U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS (Gmelin). 

 WHITE-THROATED SPARROW. 



Adult male. — Pileum black (more or less mixed or tinged with brown 

 posteriorly}, divided medially by a line or narrow stripe of white; a 

 broad superciliary stripe bright yellow anteriorly (from bill to above 

 eyes), white posteriorly: a broad postocular streak of black; auricular 

 and suborbital regions plain gray; lores paler gray; a conspicuous 

 patch covering chin, upper throat and greater part of malar region 

 white, margined above by a more or less distinct rictal streak of 

 blackish, this white patch abruptly defined below against the gray 

 (paler than that on sides of head) of lower throat and chest, which 

 passes into a more brownish hue on sides and flanks, the latter more 

 or less streaked with grayish brown; breast, abdomen, and under tail- 

 coverts white, the latter with pale brown central (concealed) spaces; 

 back and scapulars rusty brown streaked with black, the feathers 

 more or less edged exteriorly with pale brownish gray; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts light olive or hair brown; tail deeper hair brown 



