70 SEIUKUS AUROCAPILLUS, GOLDEN-CROWNED TflRUSH. 



it in almost every situation in which any Warbler could be expected. 

 Mr. Allen has accurately indicated the variability of its resorts : " During 

 the la.st weeks of April and the early part of May, they frequent open 

 fields, obtaining much of their iood from the ground, associating with 

 D. pabnarum, and at this time closely resembling it in habits. A little 

 later they retire to the pine forests, where they almost exckisively re- 

 main during summer, keeping mostly in the tops of the taller trees. 

 During a few weeks, about October 1st, they again come about the or- 

 chards and fields." Tills note refers to Massachusetts. In Florida, where 

 the same writer found it abundant in winter, he states that it is much 

 on the ground at that season, and that it comes into full song in Febru- 

 ary, from which latter circumstance we may conclude it is tben pairing. 

 The song is rather weak and monotonous — a chirring trill, insuscepti- 

 ble of adequate translation into words; and during most of the year 

 only a slight chirp is heard. The bird is of a sociable if not gregarious 

 nature, usually going in straggling companies of its own kind, and often 

 mixing with Titmice, Kinglets, and Xathatches, the whole throng gaily 

 and amicably flitting through the shady woods, scrambling incessantly 

 on and all around the branches of the trees in eager, restless quest of 

 their minute insect food. 



SEIUEUS AUROCAPILLUS, (Linn.) Sw. 



Goldeu-crowiicd Tlirtish; Oi'ange-croiviied Accentor. 



Motadlla ai(rocapilla, Lixx., Syst. Nat. i, 1766, 334.— Gji., oj). cif. 1788, 982. 



Tardus iiiirocapiUits, Lath., lud. Orn. ii, 1790, 328. — WiLS., Am. Orn. iii, 1810, 83, pi. 14, 

 f. 2.— NuTT., Man. i, 1832, 355.— Aud., Orn. Biog. ii, 1834, 2.53, pi, 143. 



S>/lvia aurocapiUa, Bp., Jouru. Pbila. Acad. i\", 1826, 35; Syn. 1828, 77. 



iieiurus uurocapillus, Sw., Zool. Journ. iii, 1827, 171.— Sw. & Rich., F. B. A. ii, 1831, 227.— 

 D'Orbig., La Sagra's Cuba, 1840, 55.— Aud., B. Am. iii, 35, pi. 148.— Bd., B. N. 

 A. 1858, 260; Rev. 1865, 214.— Mooi{E, P. Z. S. 1859, 55 (Honduras).— M.vxni., 

 J. f. O. 1858, 177.— JoxES, Bcrm. 27.— Hayd., Rep. 1862, 160.— Hoy, Smitbti. 

 Rep. 1864, 437 (Missouri).- Sumich., Mem. Bost. Soc. i, 1869, 547 (Orizaba, &c.).— 

 Lawi:., Ann. Lye. ix, 1868, 94 (Costa Rica); 1869, 200 (Yucatan).— Dall & 

 Baxn., Tr. Chic. Acad, i, 1869, 268 (Alaslia, breediug).— ScL., P. Z. S. 1856, 293 

 (Cordova). — Salle, ihld. 1857, 231 (St. Domingo). — Newton, Ibis, i, 1842 (Sauta 

 Cruz).- Cab., J. f. 0. iii, 471 (Cuba).— Gosse, B. Jam. 7G2.— Scl., P. Z. S. 1861, 

 70.— Cab., J. f. 0. 1861, 80 (Costa Rica).— Salv., P. Z. S. 1870, 184(Cliiriqni).— 

 Allen, Bull. M. C. Z. ii, 1871, 269 (Florida, wintering). — Allen, op. cU. iii, 1872, 

 125 (Eastern Kansas, May). — CouES, Key, 1872, 105, fig. 45 ; aud of all late 

 United States writers. 



Accentor aurocapillii-s, Rich., List, 1837. 



Emcocichla aiirocupUhi, Gi;ay. 



Renicockhla aurocapllla, Cab.— Gitndl., J. f O. 1861, 326 (Cuba).— Sol., Cat. 1862, 25; 

 P. Z. S. 1870, 836 (Houduras). 



limlus coroiiatxs, Vieill., Ois. Am. Sept. ii, 1807, 8, pi. 64. 



JJah. — Eastern Province North America ; west to Platte and Yellowstone, and thence 

 to Alaska. Winters sparingly in Florida and along Gulf coast, but the greater number 

 enter the West Indies, ^Mexico, and Central America i^uumeroHS quotations). Mazatlan. 

 Breeds almost throughout its North American range. 



Lieutenant Jl'arroi's Expedition. — 4714, 4717, moutli of Platte River; 4715, Bald Island; 

 4716, James River ; 4718-29, Vermilion River ; 52.57, Medicine River. 



Not obtained by Captain Raynolds' Expedition. 



Chiefly characteristic of the Eastern Province. Audubon's Columbia 

 Eivcr reference has never been confirmed, but is by no uu'ans improba- 

 bly correct, since we have the bird from Denver, Colorado, from near 

 the Yellowstone, and in Alaska. The extralimital quotations are both 

 numerous and diversified, showing how generally dispersed the species 

 is at that season, and how far south it proceeds. It is one of our most 

 abundant woodland birds in summer, noted for its loud, monotonous 



