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. Eump and upper tail coverts uniform olivaceous ashy brown. Two white bands 
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..i?. querula. 
Comparative measurements of species. 
Catal. 
No. 
Species. 
Locality. 
Sex. 
Length. 
Stretch of 
wings. 
th 
a 
£ 
Tail. 
Tarsus. 
Middle toe. 
Its claw 
alone. 
Hind toe 
and claw. 
Hind toe 
alone. 
Bill above. 
Along gape. 
Specime n 
measured. 
1.5(10 
$ 
6.50 
3.12 
3.23 
0.91 
0.88 
0.24 
0.64 
0.30 
0.46 
0.50 
7.08 
10.50 
3.25 
fi]99 
5.70 
3 29 
3.33 
0.97 
0.92 
0.24 
0.63 
0.31 
0 47 
0.47 
6205 
$ 
6.24 
2.83 
3.08 
0.86 
0.80 
0.21 
0.53 
0.25 
0.43 
0.45 
6198 
5.60 
2.90 
3.02 
0.83 
0.81 
0.24 
0.58 
0.29 
0.42 
0.42 
2780 
$ 
7.06 
3.26 
3.52 
0.94 
0 89 
0.24 
0 64 
0.31 
0.46 
0.49 
1940 
6.80 
3.36 
3.32 
0.95 
0.90 
0.24 
0.60 
0.31 
0.50 
0.56 
1434 
s 
6.30 
3.01 
3.13 
0.90 
0.90 
0.25 
0.60 
0.30 
0.45 
0.50 
do.. 
7.00 
9.75 
3.08 
ZONOTKICHIA LEUCOPHRYS, Swainson. 
White-crowned Sparrow. 
Emberiza leucophrys, Forster, Philos. Trans. LXII, 1772, 382, 42G.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 874.— Wilson, 
Am. Orn. IV, 1811, 49 ; pi, xxxi, f. 4. 
Fringilla ( Zonotrichia) leucophrys, Sw. F. B. Am. II, 1831, 255. 
Zonotrichia leucophrys, Bon. List, 1838 .—Ib. Consp. 1850, 478. 
Fringilla leucophrys, Acd. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 88 : V, 515 ; pi. 114.— Ib. Syn. 1839, 121 ,—Ib. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 
157 ; pi. 192. 
White-ci'owned Sparrow, Pennant. 
Figured in Buffon, Ois. IV, 192, pi. 223, f. 2. Winter. 
