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U. S. P. R R. EXP. AND SURVEYS— ZOOLOGY GENERAL REPORT. 
in Z. leucqphrys, which, like the median stripe of the crown, is yellow anteriorly. There is a 
dusky line back of the eye. The dark stripes on the crown are more brownish than black, and 
considerably narrower. An immature specimen (5980) has each feather of the crown streaked 
with blackish ; the forehead blackish ; the whole anterior portion of the crown yellowish, 
brightest over the eye. 
This species is very closely related to the Z. leucqphrys, which it slightly exceeds in size. It is 
a little more rufous on the back, and has less ash on the nape. The pattern of coloration of the 
Petaluma specimen is precisely the same, the median stripe on the head being yellow anteriorly 
and grayish posteriorly, instead of pure white ; in the one from Columbia river, the black on 
the sides of the crown passes outward so as to obliterate the light superciliary stripe, except in 
its anterior yellowish portion, as also the dark line behind the eye. This, however, is, I suspect, 
rather a question of coloration with season, the black in full spring dress being broader and 
purer, extending down to the eye, while in other seasons it is narrower, leaving a superciliary 
ashy streak. This is the case with all the California specimens before me, (amounting to over 
thirty, all in summer or fall dress,) while all those from Washington Territory have the purer 
and more extended black. 
In Lieutenant Bryan's collections are two young sparrows (7032, 7033,) which I am inclined 
to refer to this species. The back is more broadly streaked with black, the throat, breast, and 
sides beneath with distinct dusky streaks. The head above shows an obscure median whitish 
stripe and another superciliary one from above the eye ; the rest of the head above is spotted 
with blackish and brown. 
Latham (Synopsis II, 202,) describes a blaclc-croioned Bunting from the Sandwcih Islands, and 
incidentally mentions the present species as a variety from Nootka Sound. Gmelin bases an 
Emheriza atricopilla upon that name, and includes both original and variety. If his name 
can be retained for either one, however, it must be for the Sandwich Island species, which is 
very different from ours. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex anil 
age. 
Locality. 
When 
collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by — 
Length. 
Si retell 
Wing. 
Remarks. • 
CQ1G 
3 
Dr. Suckley ... 
90 
7.00 
16.50 
3.25 
April 26, 1856 
April — , 1836 
May 11, 1855 
do 
314 
438S 
3 
o 
Columbia river 
J. K. Townsend.. 
174 
7.00 
3.25 
Iris dark hazel,.. 
5550 
6214 
3 
3 
281 
6215 
5080 
3 
o 
Santa Clara, Cal 
Nov. — , 1855 
Dr. J. G. Cooper . 
7.25 
9.75 
) Bill, brown aad 
\ flesh color. 
7038.' 
7033? 
W. Fork Med. Bow mount's. 
Lt. F. T. Bryan.. 
° 
o 
An*. 5,1857 
377 
378 
ZONOTRICHIA QUERUL A, Gambel. 
Harris's Finch- 
Fringilla qucrula, Nuttall, Man. I, (2d ed.) 1840, 555. (Westport, Mo.) 
Zonolrichia qucrula, Gambel, J. A. N. Sc. 2d Ser. I, 1847, 51 . Bonai>. Consp. 1850, 478. 
Fringilla hm-risii, Aud. Birds Amer. VII, 1843, 331, pi. 484. 
Fringilla comata, Pr. Max. Reisc II, 1841. 
Zonotrichia comala, Bp. Consp. 1850, 479. 
