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U. S. P. R. R, EXP. AND SURVEYS—ZOOLOGY—GENERAL REPORT. 
in Z. Jeucopiirys , which, like tlie median stripe of the crown, is yellow anteriorly. There is a 
dusky line hack 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. leucophrys, 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 hack is more broadly streaked Avith black, the throat, breast, and 
sides beneath Avith 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 broAvn. 
Latham (Synopsis II, 202,) describes a hlaclc-crowned Bunting from the Sandwcih Islands, and 
incidentally mentions the present species as a variety from Nootka Sound. G-melin bases an 
Emberiza atricapilla upon that name, and includes both original and variety. If his name 
can he 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 and 
age. 
Locality. 
When 
collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
ofwings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
G216 
6217 
2780 
4388 
6550 
6214 
6215 
5980 
7032? 
7033? 
s 
90 
344 
7.00 
16.50 
3.25 
April 26, 1856 
April —, 1836 
May 11, 1855 
3 
9 
4 
4 
4 
o 
o 
o 
S F Rnird 
Fort Dalles, O. T. 
Dr. Suckley. 
174 
281 
7.00 ; 
9.75 
3.25 
Iris dark hazel... 
Santa Clara, Cal. 
Nov. —, 1855 
Dr. J. <J. Cooper . 
7.25 
9.75 
j Bill, brown and 
j flesh color. 
W. Fork Med. Bow mount’s. 
Aug. 5,1857 
Lt. F. T. Bryan.. 
377 
378 
ZONOTRICHIA QUERULA, Gambel. 
Harris’s Finch. 
Fringilla querula, Nuttall, Man. I, (2d cd.) 1S40, 555. (Westport, Mo.) 
Zonotricliia querula, Gambel, J. A. N. Sc. 2d Ser. I, 1847, 51.—Bonap. Consp. 1850, 4(8. 
Fringilla harrisii, Add. Birds Araer. VII, 1843, 331, pi. 484. 
Fringilla comata , Pr. Max. Reise II, 1841. 
Zonotrichia comata, Bp. Consp. 1850, 479. 
