280 



NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



CroTvn like the back. A well-defined superciliary light stripe. 



Thickly streaked beneath, including crissum. Ground-color and superciliary 

 stripe yellowish. Bill small S. noveboraccnsis. 



Sparsely streaked beneath ; throat and crissum immaculate. Ground-color 

 and superciliary stripe white. Bill very large . . . . <S'. ludovidanns. 



Seiiirus aurocapillus, Sw.uxs. 



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GOLDEN-CROWNED THETJSH. 



Motacilta aurocapilla, Linn. S. N. 1, 1766, 334. Turdus nur. Lath. ; Wils. Am, Oni. 

 II, pi. .\iv, fig. 2. — Arn. Om. Biog. II, pi. cxliii. Sylvia aur. Bon. Seiiirus aiir. 

 SWAINSON, Zool. Jour. Ill, 1S27, 171. — Baird, Birds N. Am. 185S, 260; Rev. 214. 

 — Moore, P. Z. S. 18.59, .55 (Honduras). — Max. Cab. Jour. 1858, 177. —Jones, Nat. 

 Bermuda, 27. Henicocichla aur. Sclater, C'atal. 1861, 25, no. 159. — GuNDl.Acn, 

 Cab. Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba). Seiurus aur. D'OnB. Sagra's Cuba, 1840, 55. — Dall & 

 Bannister, Tr. Chic. Ac. I, 1869, 278 (Alaska). — Samuels, 218. Turdus coronatits, 

 ViEiLL. Ois. II. 1807, 8. 



Other localities quoted : Cordova, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, 293. SI. Dmniiujo, Salli!;, P. Z. S. 

 1857, 231. Guatemala, Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, I, 1859, 10. Santa Cruz (winter), 

 Newton, Ibis, 1859, 142. Cuba (winter). Cab. Jour. Ill, 471. Jamaica, Gosse, 

 Birds, 152. — Scl.\ter, P. Z. S. 1861, 70. .Costa Rica, Cab. Jour. 1861, 84. Orizaba 

 (winter), SuMicintAST. Yucatan, Lawr. Chiriqui, Salv. 



Sp. Char. Above uniform olive-green, with a tinge of yellow. Crown with two nar- 

 row Streaks of black from the bill, enclosing a median and much broader one of brownish- 

 orange. Beneath white; the breast, sides of the body, and a maxillary line, streaked with 

 black. The female and young of the year are not appreciably diQ'erent. Length, 6.00 ; 

 wing, 3.00 ; tail, 2.40. 



Hab. Eastern Province of North America, north to English River, II. B. T., and Alas- 

 ka; west to mouth of Platte, and Denver City, Colorado; Mazatlan ; whole West Indies; 

 Eastern Mexico ; Honduras, Guatemala, and Costa Rica ; Bermuda in autumn and winter 

 (Jones). 



Habits. The Golden-crowned Tln-nsh, or Oven-Bird, as in some portions 



of the conntry it is exclusively called, 

 inliahits the whole of eastern North 

 America, as far to the west as the Great 

 Plains, and to the north at least as far 

 as English Eiver. In the winter season 

 it has been found in Mexico, St. Domin- 

 go, Jamaica, Cuba, and otlierWest India 

 islands, and in Central America is also 

 very common. IVIr. Sumichrast also 

 s])eaks of it as common at Orizaba 

 during tlie same season, and it has been 

 found in the Bermudas and the Bahamas. 

 In all these places it usually appears early in the autumn and remains until 

 the ensuing spring. It breeds as far to the north as it has been known to go. 

 Bicliardson met with its nest on tlie banks of the Saskatchewan, and was 



Se'turus attrocapiUus . 



