The White-crowned Sparrow 



of the West from Santa Barbara County, California, north to Alaska, and in the East 

 from Vermont to Labrador and southern Greenland. 



Range of Z. leucophrys. — In the breeding season occupies a discontinuous 

 range consisting of the Boreal zone in some of the highest mountains of the West, 

 and the eastern British Provinces from the west side of Hudson Bay southeast to 

 northern New England and northeast to Greenland; the western breeding range in- 

 cludes the Sierras from southern Oregon south to Tulare County, the Uintah and 

 Wasatch ranges, the San Francisco Mountains in Arizona, and the Rocky Mountains 

 from Wyoming south to southern New Mexico. Winters from northern Lower Cali- 

 fornia, southern Kansas, and the valley of the Ohio, south to southern New Mexico. 



Distribution in California. — Breeds at timberline in the Sierras from Mt. 

 Shasta south to Surretta Meadows in Tulare County (Grinnell); also in the Warner 

 Mountains, and irregularly at lower altitudes, e. g., valley floor of the Yosemite, alt. 

 c. 4000 feet (June 10, 1914), even down to Upper Sonoran zone, Paoha Island, Mono 

 Lake (June 3, 1919). In migrations passes chiefly west of the Sierra Nevada divide, 

 at least north of Los Angeles County. Not found in the State in winter. 



Authorities. — Newberry, Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv., vol. vi., pt. iv., 1857, p. 87 

 (part); Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Wheeler Surv., 1878, p. 185 (nesting) ;Belding, Occ. Papers, 

 Calif. Acad. Sci., 2, 1890, pp. 148-149 (nesting); Condor, vol. ii., 1900, p. 134 (range); 

 Ray, Auk, vol. xx., 1903, p. 188 (nest and eggs) ; Grinnell, Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., 12, 

 1914, pp. 167-168; Dawson, Condor, vol. xviii., 1916, p. 28. 



Taken in Inyo County Photo by the Author 



NEST AND EGGS OF WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW 



A GROUND NEST AT TIMBERLINE 



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