62. ZONOTRICHIA. 601 



Emberiza atricapilla, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 875 (1788, pt.) ; Audub. 

 B. Amer. pi. 494 ; id. Orn. Biogr. v. p. 47 (1839). 

 . Emberiza coronata, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. ii. p. 44 (1811). 

 Fringilla aurocapilla, Nutt. Man. 2nd ed. p. 555 (1840). 

 Zonotrichia aurocapilla, Bp. Comp. List B. Bur. §• N. Amer. p. 32 



(1838); ■Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 373 (1849); Bp. Comp. i. p. 478 



(1850) ; Netob. Pad/. R. Rep. iv. p. 88 (1857). 

 Fringilla atricapilla, Audub. Syn. p. 122 (1839) ; id. B. Amer. 8vo, 



ill. p. 162, pi. 193 (1841). 

 Zonotrichia atricapilla, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 373 (1849) ; id. 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 93, no. 7377 (1870). 

 Zonotrichia galapagensis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 479 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 94, no. 7383 (1870) ; Salvin, Tram. Z. S. ix. p. 491, note 



(1876). 

 Zonotrichia coronata, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 461 (1853) ; Scl. Cat. 



Amer. B. p. 113 (1362) ; Coues, Ibis, 1866, p. 263; Brown, Ibis, 



1868, p. 422 ; Ball q Bonn. Trans. Chicago Acad. i. p. 284 



(1869) ; Cooper, B. Calif, p. 197 (1870) ; Baird, Brewer, fy Ridgw. 



Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. 573, pi. xxvi. fig. 1 (1874) ; Ridgw. Rep. 



Surv. 40th Par. p. 472 (1877) ; Brewer, Ibis, 1878, p. 117 ; 



Belding, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mm. i. p. 416 (1878) ; Cooper, op. cit. ii. 



p. 247 (1880) ; Ridgw. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 24 (1881) ; 



Bean, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 152 (1882) ; Coues, Check-list 



N. Amer. B. p. 57 (1882) ; Nelson, Cruise R. S. ' Conjoin,' p. 71 



(1883) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 283 (1834) ; 



Anthony, Auk, iii. p. 182 (1886) ; Everm. t. c. p. 182 ; A. O. U. 



Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 271 (1886). 



Adult male in summer plumage. General colour above brown, 

 rather rufescent on the neck and mantle, the feathers of the latter 

 having blackish spots near the ends, and a pale whitish shade near 

 the end of the outer web, producing a mottled appearance ; lower 

 back and rump uniform ashy brown ; upper tail-coverts brown 

 with ashy margins ; lesser wing-coverts ashy ; median and greater 

 coverts blackish, edged with ashy brown and tipped with white, 

 forming a double wing-bar ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 dusky blackish, fringed with ashy ; quills dusky blackish, edged 

 with ashy brown, whitish towards the end of the primaries, the 

 inner secondaries externally chestnut like the iuner greater coverts ; 

 tail-feathers blackish brown, edged with ashy brown ; crown with 

 a central patch of bright olive-yellow, the occiput and nape ashy 

 grey, both bordered by a broad band of black from the base 

 of the forehead to the side of the nape ; lores, sides of face, 

 ear-coverts, and sides of hinder crown dark ashy grey, slightly 

 mottled with white spots below the edgo and on the fore part of 

 the cheeks ; chin whitish ; cheeks, throat, and chest ashy grey, 

 the latter slightly washed with brown ; centre of breast and 

 abdomen whitish, the sides of the body and flanks brown ; thighs 

 brown, washed with yellowish white ; under tail-coverts ochreous 

 white, with pale brown centres ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 light brown, edged with pale olive-yellow, especially along the 

 edge of the wing ; quills dusky below, ashy along the inner web : 

 " bill reddish brown, dusky towards the point ; feet flesh-coloured ; 



