458 
U. S. P. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT. 
Synopsis of the species. 
Feathers of interscapular region blackish centrally, passing into rufous brown and edged 
with paler. Rump and upper tail coverts uniform olivaceous ashy brown. Two white hands 
on the wings ; the tertials edged with rufous. Beneath without streaks. Head above marked 
with black, and generally with white. Cheeks plumbeous. 
a. Median light stripe on the top of the head. 
Chin, throat, and breast nearly uniform ashy. Head above black. Median and 
superciliary stripe pure white. A narrow black line from the black lores, 
through and behind the eye, cutting off the superciliary stripe anteriorly. 
Z. leucophrys. 
Similar to the last, but the lores ashy and continuous with the white superciliary 
stripe , Z. gambelii. 
Chin ashy like throat and breast. Top of the head black ; the median stripe yellow 
anteriorly, ashy posteriorly. A little yellow above the eye Z. coronata. 
Chin abruptly white ; median head stripe white. A broad superciliary stripe, 
yellow anteriorly, white behind Z. albicollis, 
b. Head above entirely black. 
Head all round, neck above and throat, black. Cheeks behind gray. Breast and 
belly pure white, with a few black streaks on the sides of the breast.. Z. querula. 
Comparative measurements of species. 
Cam). 
No. 
Species. 
Locality. 
Length. 
Stretch of 
ii 
Eh 
EH 
Middle toe. 
5 
Hind toe 
and claw. 
Hind toe 
alone. 
Hill above. 
Along gape. 
Specimen 
measured. 
1506 
do.. 
Zonotrichia leucophrys. 
3 
6.50 
7.08 
5.70 
6.24 
5.60 
7.06 
6.80 
6.30 
7.00 
3.12 
3.25 
3 29 
2.83 
2.90 
3.26 
3.36 
3.23 
0.91 
0.88 
0.24 
0.64 
0.30 
0.46 
0.50 
10.50 
6199 
6198 
2780 
1940 
1434 
do.. 
..... .do do 
do gambelii . .. 
......do do 
Mimbres to RioGrande 
Sacramento valley . . . 
Mimbres to RioGrande 
"e 
3 
3.33 
3.08 
3.02 
3.52 
3.32 
3.13 
0.86 
0.83 
0.94 
0.95 
0.90 
0.92 
0.60 
0.81 
0.90 
0.90 
0.24 
0.21 
0.24 
0.24 
0.24 
0.25 
0.53 
0.64 
0.60 
0.60 
0.31 
0.25 
0.29 
0.31 
0.31 
0.30 
0.47 
0.43 
0.42 
0.46 
0.50 
0.45 
0.47 
0.45 
0.42 
0.49 
0.56 
0.50 
do querula .... 
Kickapoo Country.... 
9.75 
3.08 
ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS, Swainson. 
White-crowned Sparrow. 
Emberiza leucophrys, Forster, Philos. Trans. LXII, 1772, 382, 426. — Gmehn, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 874. — Wilson, 
Am. Orn. IV, 1811, 49 ; p], xxxi, f.4. 
Fringilla (Zonotrichia) leucophrys, Sw. F. B. Am. If, 1831, 255. 
Zonotrichia leucophrys, Bon. List, 1838. — Ib. Ccmsp. 1850, 478. 
Fringilla leucophrys, Add. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 88: V, 515 ; pi. 114.— Ib. Syn. 1839, 121,— Ib. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 
157 ; pi. 192. 
JVhile-croioned Sparrow, Pennant. 
Figured in Buffon, Ois. IV, 192, pi. 223, f. 2. Winter. 
