300 BIRDS—FRINGILLID ZA. 
Thickets along railroads are favorite resorts of this species, and a tele- 
eraph wire is a favorite perch while singing. 
The nest of the Field Sparrow is placed on the ground, in a tussock of 
grass, or in a low bush or tree but a few inches above the ground. It is 
composed of grass, with a foundation of dead leaves and a lining of hair. . 
The eggs are four or five, white, more or less thickly spotted with reddish- 
brown. 
GENUS ZONOYTRICHIA. Swainson. 
Body rather stout. Bill slightly notched, somewhat compressed, excavated inside. 
Wings moderate, rounded, not reaching to middle cf tail; secondaries and tertials equal, 
shorter than the first primary. Tail rounded, about equal to the wings. Feet stout; 
tarsus rather longer than middie toe. Hind toe longer than lateral. Claws slender and 
considerably curved. 
ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS (Gm.) Bp. 
W hite-throated Sparrow. 
Fringilla pennsylvanica, KigTLAND, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 164, 183.—Ruap, Proc. Phila. 
Acad. Nat. Sci., vi, 1853, 395. 
Zonotrichia albicollis, BAIRD, P. R. R. Rep., ix, 1858, 464 —WuEaTON, Ohio apaane Rep. for 
1860, 366; Reprint, 1361, 8; Food of Biras, ete., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 566; Re- 
print, 1875, 6.—LANGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 177, 9; Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. 
Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 175; Reprint, 9. 
White-throated Finch, Kirruanb, Fam. Visitor, i, 1850, 148, 164. 
Fringilla albicollis, GMuLIN, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 926. 
Fringilla pennsylvanica, LATHAM, Ind. Orn., 1790, 446. 
Zonotrichia albicollis, BONAPARTE, Consp. Av., 1850, 478. 
Adult male, with the crown black, divided by a median white stripe, bounded by a 
white superciliary line and yellow spot from nostril to the eye; below this a black stripe 
through the eye; below this a maxillary black stripe bounding the definitely pure white 
throat, sharply contrasted with the dark ash of the breast and sides of the neck and 
head. Edge of wing yellow. Back continuously streaked with black, chestuut, and falvous- 
white; rump ashy, unmarked. Wings much edged with bay, the white tips of.the 
median and greater coverts forming two conspicuous bars; quills and tail feathers 
dusky, with pale edges. Below, white, shaded with ashy-brown on sides, the ash deeper 
SPIZELLA PALLIDA (Sw.) Bp. 
Clay-colored Sparrow. 
Spizella pallida, WH#ATON, Food of Birds, ete., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 566; Reprint, 
1875, 6. 
Emberiza pallida, SWAINSON and RICHARDSON, Fn. Bor. aN) ., li, 1831, 251. 
Spizella pallida, BONAPARTE, List, 1838, 33. 
Habitat, from Texas to the Upper Missouri and Saskatchewan; east to Iowa, Wiscon- 
sin, and illinois. Given as a bird of Ohio by me in 1875, on what I now consider insuf- 
ficient authority. 
