370 PEINGILLID^. 



winter visitor to the highlands. Our specimens are from the valley of Mexico. It has 

 been noticed at Guanajuato ^ and near the Eio Grande frontier ^ ; but its name is absent 

 from Salle's and Boucard's lists, as well as from those of De Oca, Sumichrast, and 

 Grayson. 



In North America it breeds in the Wahsatch Mountains and elsewhere, and plenti- 

 fully in Labrador ^ ®. Its nest is placed on the ground, and is usually made of moss and 

 grasses, and lined with fine fibrous roots. The eggs have a light greenish-white ground- 

 colour, and are thickly marked, chiefly about the larger end, with reddish-brown and 

 light purple-brown spots ^. 



2. Zonotrichia intermedia. 



Zonotrichia leucophrys, var. intermedia, Ridgw. Bull. Essex Inst. v. p. 198 '. 

 Zonotrichia intermedia, Ridgw. Field & Forest, 1877, p. 198". 



Zonotrichia leucophrys, var. gambeli, Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. B. i. p. 569'; Lawr. Mem. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 277' (nee Fringilla gambeli, Nutt.). 



Sp. precedenti valde affinis sed loris et superciliis albidis confluentibus, colore nigro capitis lateribus liaud ocu- 

 lorum ambitum attingente. 



Hob. NoETH America, Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean ^. — Mexico, Mazatlan 

 {Grayson^). 



We believe that it is to this bird that Mr. Lawrence refers Grayson's Mazatlan speci- 

 mens, under the name Z. leucophrys, var. gambeli ^, but we have no Mexican examples 

 to confirm this opinion. The true Z. gamheli is now justly considered a distinct species 

 by Dr. Coues, the difierences between it' and Z. leucophrys and the present bird being 

 sufficiently definite. 



That Z. intermedia is very closely allied to Z. leucophrys is obvious, but the slight 

 distinction in the arrangement of the markings about the eye is not difficult to 

 recognize ; and by this character alone adult specimens of Z. leucophrys and Z. inter- 

 media can be determined without hesitation. 



The present bird is said to be very common between the Eocky Mountains and the 

 Pacific coast from the Mexican frontier to the Arctic Ocean. It breeds in the north 

 and in the higher mountain-ranges of the southern part of its range ^. 



Its presence at Mazatlan is merely recorded, without comment ^- 



3. Zonotrichia pileata. 



Emberiza pileata, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 23 ^. 



Zonotrichia pileata, Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 454^ 552' ; 1859, p. 140* j 1860, p. 76 = ; Sel. & Salv. Ibis, 



1859, p. 18"; P. Z. S. 1879, pp. 507', 606' ; Cab. J. f. Orn. 1860, p. 411'; Lawr. Ann. Lye. 



N. Y. ix. p. 103"; Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 301 " ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 190"; Cat. 



Strickl. CoU. p. 230 " ; Ibis, 1885, p. 216 " ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 328 " ; Salv. & Godm. 



Ibis, 1879, p. 200"; 1880, p. 122"; Tacz. Orn. Per. iii. p. 45 ". 

 Supra brunnescens, uropygio immaculato, dorso medio nigro striate, alia et Cauda fusco-nigricantibus brunne 



