FAMILY FringillidcB 



songs which it repeats as it sits on some bush 

 in the vicinity of ii s nest. When approached 

 too closely it will dive into the underbrush, to 

 reappear in a few moments at some other 

 point, scolding all the while at one's intrusion 

 on its preserves. Its nest is placed on or near 

 the ground in thickets. It is coarsely built of 

 twigs and weed stems, lined with various 

 soft materials. 



Golden-crowned sparrow, Zonotrichia 

 coronata. 7.00 



Distribution: Pacific Coast and Bering 

 Sea districts of North America, breeding on 

 the Shumagin Islands, Alaska peninsula, 

 Kadiak and the more western parts of the 

 Alaska mainland, and south at least to south- 

 ern British Columbia in the high Rockies 

 where its nests have been taken. South in 

 winter through British Columbia, ^Yashing- 

 ton, Oregon and California to Lower Cali- 

 fornia; straggling eastward, rarely to Nevada, 

 Colorado and Wisconsin. 



The golden-crowned sparrow is a migrant 

 and winter resident in the United States, 

 reaching our northern border on the way 

 south about the first of September, and by 

 the middle of November has spread over the 

 whole coast to Lower California. Its favorite 

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