BIRDS—FRINGILLIDAE—ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS. 
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Sp. Ch. —Hood and nape, sides of head anterior to and including the eyes, chin, throat, and a few spots in the middle of 
the upper part of the breast and on its sides, black. Sides of head and neck ash gray, with the trace of a narrow crescent back 
of the ear coverts. Interscapular region of back, with the feathers reddish brown streaked with dark brown. Breast and belly 
clear white. Sides of body light brownish, streaked. Two narrow white bands across the greater and middle coverts. Length, 
about 7 inches ; wing, 3.40 ; tail, 3.G5. 
Hab .—Missouri river, above Fort Leavenworth. 
The bill of this species appears to be yellowish red. More immature specimens vary in having 
the black of the head above more restricted. The nape and sides of the head to the bill pale 
reddish brown, lighter on the latter region. Others have the feathers of the anterior portion 
of the hood edged with whitish. In all there is generally a trace of black anterior to the eye. 
This species has a considerably larger bill than Z. leucophrys , the mandible especially. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When col¬ 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing,. 
Remarks. 
6218 
4797 
4798 
1940 
4799 
5400 
8 
Fort Leavenworth,K.T. 
Oct. 21,1854 
April 21, 1856 
2 
Dr. Hayden .. 
7.50 
7.23 
10.25 
10.87 
3.37 
3.12 
8 
Kickapoo Co., Mo. II. 
May 5, 1843 
April 24, 1856 
J. J. Audubon 
3 
Medicine Creek, K.T. 
7.50 
10.75 
3.25 
ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS, Bonap. 
Wliite-tliroated Sparrow. 
Fringilla albicollis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 926.— Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 51; pi. xxii, f. 2— Liciit. Verz. 
Doubl. No. 247, (1823.) 
Zonotricliia albicollis, Bp. Consp. 1850, 478.— Cab. Mus. Hein. 1851, 132. 
Passer pennsylvanicus, Brisson, 1760. Appendix 77. 
Fringillapennsylvanica, Lath. Index, I, 1790, 445.— Aud. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 42: V. 497 ; pi. 8.— Ib. Syn. 1839, 
121.— Ib. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 153 ; pi. 191. 
Fringilla ( Zonotricliia ) pennsylvanica, Sw. F. B. Am. II, 1831, 256. 
Zonotricliia pennsylvanica, Bon. List, 1838. 
Sp. Ch.— Two black stripes on the crown separated by a median one of white. A broad superciliary stripe from the base of 
the mandible to the occiput, yellow as far as the middle of the eye and white behind this. A broad black streak on the side of 
the head from behind the eye. Chin white, abruptly defined against the dark ash of the sides of the head and upper part of 
the breast, fading into white on the belly, and margined by a narrow black maxillary line. Edge of wing and axillaries 
yellow. Back and edges of secondaries rufous brown, the former streaked with dark brown. Two narrow white bands across 
the wing coverts. Length, 7 inches ; wing, 3.10 ; tail, 3.20. 
Hub. —Eastern United States to the Missouri. 
Female smaller, and tbe colors ratlier duller. Immature and winter specimens have the 
white chin patch less abruptly defined ; the white markings on the top and sides of the head 
tinged with brown. Some specimens, apparently mature, show quite distinct streaks on the 
breast and sides of throat and body. 
As Brisson’s nomenclature is not binomial, and his names merely literal translations into 
Latin from the French vernacular, consisting usually of three or more words, rather than two, I 
have followed Cabanis, Bonaparte, and most modern authors in rejecting them altogether. 
