WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW. 3370 
and purer on the breast; bill dark; feet pale. Female and immature birds with the 
black of head replaced by brown, the white of throat less conspicuousiy contrasted with 
the duller ash of surreunding parts, and frequently with obscure dusky streaks on the 
breast and sides. Length, 64-74; wings and tail each about 3. 
Habitat, Eastern Province of North America; nerth to 65°; west to the Indian Terri- 
tory, Kansas, and Dakota. 
Abundant and regular spring and fall migrant in April and May, Sep- 
tember to November. Frequents woodland undergrowth and the banks 
of streams, and is generally seen in scattered flocks. In the spring the 
males arrive several days before the females, and disappear sooner. Late 
in spring many females are seen considerably streaked below; these are 
probably young birds. Dr. Kirtland mentions their remaining in North- 
era Ohio throughout the month of June, but they have never been known 
to breed with us. Mr. Merriam has discovered it breeding in the Adir- 
ondack region, Northern New York, while Mr. E. A. Mearns gives it as 
a regular winter resident in the lower Hudson River Valley. 
In some sections, this Sparrow, which is one of the largest of the 
streaked Sparrows, is known as the Peabody Bird, from its clear but 
somewhat drawling notes, which strikingly resemble the syllables 
pe-d-body, ve-d-body, &body, & body, d-body. It is a tolerably regular visitor 
in spring in gardens of the city, where its song is sometimes heard at 
night. Its call note is a lisping tseep. 
The nest is built upon the ground; it is composed of moss and grass, 
lined with fine grass, rootlets, hair, and a few feathers. The eggs vary 
from four to seven. They are of a pale-greenish color, more or less 
thickly spotted with rusty-brown, and measure .90 by .68. 
ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS (Forst.) Sw. 
White-crowned Sparrow. 
Hringitla lewcophrys, AUDUBON, Orn. Biog, ii, 1834, 88; B. Am., iii, 1841, 159.—Kuirt- 
LAND, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 164, 183.—REaD, Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci., vi, 
1853, 395. ‘ 
Zonotrichia leucophrys, BAIRD, P. R. R. Rep., ix, 1858, 460.—WHxaton, Ohio Agric. Rep. 
-  for'1860, 366; Reprint, 1861, 8; Food of Birds, etce., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 566; 
Reprint, 1875, 6.—BatrD, BREWER and Ripeway, N. A. Birds, i, 1874, 568.—Lane- 
pon, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 9; Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1878, 114; Reprint, 
5; Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc, Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 175; Reprint, 9. 
White-crowned Finch, KiRTLAND, Fam. Visitor, 1850, 148, 164. 
Hmberiza lewcophrys, FORSTER, Philos. Tr., Ixii, 1772, 382, 403, 426. 
Fringitla lewcophrys, BONAPARTE, Syn., 1628, 107. 
Fringilla (Zonotrichia) leucophrys, SWAINSON and RICHARDSON, Fn. Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 255. 
Zonotrichia leucophrys, BONAPARTE, List, 1838, 32. 
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