FAMILY FRINGILLIDAE 



[ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS (Forster): White-crowned Sparrow, 



Zacatero Mixto 



Emberiza leucophrys Forster, 1772, Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, 62, p. 340. 

 (Severn River, west shore of Hudson Ray.) 



An immature White-crowned Sparrow was observed on the grounds 

 of the Hotel Washington, Colon, Canal Zone, January 15-22, 1982, by 

 J. and R. A. Rowlett and many other observers familiar with the 

 species in North America ( Ridgely, pers. comm. ) . Photographs were 

 taken by Bret Whitney. The normal winter range of this species ex- 

 tends south to Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, and central Mexico.] 



ZONOTRICHIA LINCOLNII LINCOLNII (Audubon): Lincoln's 

 Sparrow, Gorrion de Lincoln 



Fringilla Lincolnii Audubon, 1834, Birds Amer. (folio), 2, pi. 193. (Near mouth 

 of Natashquan River, Quebec.) 



Small; upper surface grayish brown, streaked with blackish; under- 

 surface mostly white, finely streaked. 



Description. — Length 120-131 mm. Adult (sexes alike), narrow 

 central crown stripe and broad superciliary light gray; side stripes of 

 crown auburn, streaked black; upper surface, including wing coverts, 

 finely streaked blackish brown; remiges and rectrices auburn; lores 

 and auricular area whitish or buffy gray; fine buff and blackish stripes 

 on side of throat; center of throat white, very slightly streaked with 

 blackish; breast, sides, flanks, and undertail coverts buff; finely 

 streaked with blackish; rest of undersurface white. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from North America, taken in May), 

 wing 59.0-64.4 (62.7), tail 53.5-60.2 (56.3), culmen from base 10.9- 

 11.8 (11.2), tarsus 18.7-20.0 (19.4) mm. 



Females (10 from North America, taken in May and June), wing 

 57.2-65.3 (60.8), tail 50.4-59.3 (55.0), culmen from base 10.4-12.0 

 (11.3), tarsus 18.3-21.0 (19.6) mm. 



Accidental. This species is known in Panama from 2 records, a 

 very old specimen collected in the Canal Zone, and a bird recently mist- 

 netted and released. The normal winter range is south to Honduras. 

 The Smithsonian has a male collected at "Lion Hill, near Aspinwall" 

 by McLeannan. The specimen is unquestionably a McLeannan skin, as 

 shown by the small cardboard tag attached to one foot marked "m 358" 

 in McLeannan's handwriting. The skin was purchased from McLean- 

 nan by S. and T. Rhodes (not Rhoads as stated on label) in December 

 1865 with a number of other specimens. On October 31, 1967, a Lin- 



