zonotrichia (from zone, girdle, and trichos, hair) leucophrys (from leukos, white, and ophrys, eyebrow)
Sunday, October 21, 1979 — 11:30 am
Des Plaines, Illinois
I stood in my bedroom and stared out the back window a lot these days, and once again it paid off. A White-crowned Sparrow landed briefly in the tall evergreen that was just over the property line in the neighbor’s yard.