Phil - Brian Bell and I saw a tan-striped White-throated Sparrow at Marymoor on Thursday. On the bird we saw, the stripe above the black eye-line was tan, the stripe below was grey. There was not any noticable yellowing at the front-end of the tan stripe. The white bib, clearly outlined (including bottom edge) with black was very obvious, though it was not brilliant white.

Phil - your bird sounds like a textbook White-throated - a good, but not rare sighting for this time of year.

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland WA
== MJCT_Hobbs at msn.com

-----Original Message-----
From: SCRBJAY at aol.com <SCRBJAY at aol.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: Friday, October 16, 1998 8:38 PM
Subject: Nisqually 10/16/98


>Tweets,
>
>I was watching some GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROWS in the brush across from
>the viewing platform, when another bird caught my eye...and I went into shock.
>Alternating dark and light tan stripes on its hear, dark bill, plain grayish
>underparts and a very well defined trapezoid shaped white patch under its
>bill. The only thing that wasn't clear was the yellow between the bill and
>eye...