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BIRDS OF COLORADO. 
552a. Chondestes grammacus strigatus. Western Lark 
Sparrow. 
Summer resident; common. Breeds commonly over all 
the plains of eastern and western Colorado, and in the mount- 
ain parks less commonly to 10,000 feet. Arrives the last of 
April and breeds late in May. 
553. Zonotrichia querula. Harris’s Sparrow. 
Migratory; rare. Only one record for the State. One 
taken by C. W. Beckham at Pueblo, October 29, 1886. (Auk, 
IV. 1887, 120.) In the Auk, XL 1894, 182, the present writer 
recorded a specimen at Colorado Springs that he was assured 
had been taken in the vicinity. Further investigation has 
revealed the fact that the specimen was obtained in Texas. 
554. Zonotrichia leucophrys. White-crowned Sparrow. 
Summer resident; abundant. During migration one of the 
commonest birds. Arrives in April and spends two months in 
working up to timber-line. F. M. Drew has noted the queer 
fact of their changing location between the first and second 
brood. He says that they are common and breed during June 
in Baker’s Park in San Juan County at about 8,000 feet; that 
most of them then leave the Park and are numerous among the 
stunted bushes above timber-line where they raise a second 
brood. In September they return to the park and linger until 
October. (B. N. O. C. VI. 1881, 138.) Breeds most abundantly 
from 10,000 to 11,000 feet and July is the height of the breed- 
ing season. Known to breed as high as 12,500 feet. The last 
of the migrants leaves the lower valleys about the first of June. 
On their return the last leaves the State in November. 
554a. Zonotrichia leucophrys intermedia. Intermediate 
Sparrow. 
Migratory; common. Arrives from the last of March to 
the middle of April, and on its northward journey keeps near 
the level of the plains. It is abundant in the foothills and 
lower portions of western Colorado and is not uncommon east 
to the Kansas line. The bulk leave the State in April and the 
last about the middle of May. On their southward journey 
they are a little later than the White-crowned Sparrow. Breed 
north of the United States. 
557. Zonotrichia coronata. Golden-crow^ned Sparrow. 
Winter visitant; accidental. A Pacific Coast species, 
known once from Colorado. Prof. Win. Osburn says that a 
small flock spent the winter of 1889 in the thickets along the 
Big Thompson. One was shot February 23. (Science, XXII. 
1893, 212.) 
