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ashy parts of domestica replaced by pale brownish. Back bright bay, with black streaks and 
some pale flaxen edgings ; inner secondaries similarly variegated ; tips of median and greater 
coverts forming whitish cross-bars. Size of domestica, but more nearly the colors of monticola. 
Length 5.25-5.75 ; extent 7.75-8.40; wing 2.30-2.50 ; tail quite as much, or more, thus not 
shorter than wing, as it is in the last. Sexes alike ; young for a short thne streaked below, as 
usual in Spizella. Eastern U. S., strictly ; hardly N. throughout New England, W. only to the 
edge of the Plains ; migratory ; breeds usually from Virginia northward, and winters from the 
same southward ; very abundant in fields, copses, and hedges, in flocks when not breeding. 
Nest indifi'erently in low bushes or on ground ; eggs whitish, fully speckled with rusty-brown, 
0.68 X 0.50. 
272. S. paFlida. (Lat. pallida, pale.) Clay-colored Sparrow. Crown and back clay-colored 
or flaxen, distinctly streaked with black, without evident bay, the dorsal streaks noticeably 
separated from those of the crow^n, by an ashier, less streaked, cervical interval ; rump brown- 
ish-gray. Crown divided by a pale median stripe ; a distinct whitish superciliary line ; loral 
and auricular regions decidedly brown, with a dark postocular stripe over the auriculars, and 
another from the angle of the mouth, bounding the brown area inferiorly ; below this a dusky 
maxillary streak ; wing-coverts and inner secondaries variegated like the back, being black with 
broad flaxen-brown edging and whitish tipping. Below, white, soiled with clay-color. Bill 
dusky above, pale below ; feet pale. Small : Length 5.00-5.25, rarely 5.50 ; extent 7-40-7.75, 
rarely 8.00; wing and tail, each, about 2.50. Young birds lightly streaked below. Central 
region of the U. S. into British America, Saskatchewan and Red River regions; S. to Texas; 
E. to Iowa and Illinois. Abundant ; nest in bushes close to ground ; eggs 3-4, pale green 
sparsely speckled with rich brown ; 0.62 X 0.50. 
273. S. brew'eri. (To Dr. T. M. Brewer, of Boston.) Brewer's Sparrow. Similar; paler and 
duller, all the markings indistinct; streaks of crown and back small, numerous, not separated 
by a cervical interval ; no definite markings on sides of head. Upper parts grayish -brown, 
with marked dorsal area of brighter brown, and continuously streaked from head to tail. Size 
of the last, but tail relatively longer, exceeding the wings — about 2.66 long, thus equalling, if 
it does not somewhat exceed, that of domestica, although the latter is a larger bird. South- 
western U. S., especially New Mexico and Arizona ; said to have occurred in Massachusetts ; 
habits those of ijallida; nest and eggs indistinguishable. 
274. S. atrigula'ris. (Lat. atrigularis, black-throated; ater, black; gula, throat.) Black- 
CHINNED Sparrow. adult: Dark ash, fading insensibly into whitish on the belly, 
deepening to black on the face and throat ; interscapulars bright bay, streaked with black ; 
wing-coverts and inner secondaries variegated with the same colors ; tail blackish, with pale edg- 
ings ; bill coral red as in S. agrestis; feet dark brown. A small-bodied species, but full 6.00 
long, on account of the great 
length of the tail (2.75-3.00), 
which much exceeds the wings 
(2.25-2.50; extent 7.75). The 
young lack black on the face, 
have the crown washed with 
ashy-brown, the middle of the 
back duller chestnut, and the 
bill dusky above ; but may be 
known by the length of the tail. ^ 
. ^ Fig. 240.— Crown Sparrow, 
Mexico, Lower California, An- (white-crowned), nat. size. (Ad. 
Fig. 239. — Crown Sparrow (white- 
throated), nat. size. (Ad nat. del. 
E. C.) 
84. ZONOTRICH'IA. 
zona. 
(Gr. C^vT), zone, a girdle, band 
nat. del. E. C.) 
TpL\ias, trichias, name of a bird. Figs. 
239, 240.) Crown Sparrows. Embracing our largest and handsomest sparrows, 6.50 to 
