BIRDS — FRINGILLIDAE — ZONOTRICHIA CORONATA. 



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List of specimens. 



ZONOTRICHIA COKONATA, B a i r d . 



Golden-crowned Sparrow. 



Emberiza coronata, Pallas, Zoog. Rofso-Asiat. II, 1811, 44 ; plate. 



Emberiza atricaiiilla, AuD. Orn. Biog. V. 1839, 47 ; pi. 394 ; (not of Gnielin.) 



Fringilla atricapilla, AuD. Synopsis, '839, 122.— Ib. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 162; pi. 193. 



Fringitltt mirocajiilla, Nuttall, Man. I, (2d ed.) 1840, 555. 



Zonotricliia aurocapilla, Bon. Consp. 1850,478. — Newberry, Zool. Cal. & Or. Route, Rep. P.R.R.VI, iv, 1857, 



Emberiza atricapilla, Gm. I, 1788, 875, in part only. — Lath. Ind. 415. 

 Black-crowned Bunting, Pennant, Arc. Zool. II, 364. — Lath. II, i, 202, 49 ; tab. Iv. 



Sp. Ch. — Hood, from bill to upper part of nape, pure black, the middle longitudinal third occupied by yellow on the anterior 

 half, and pale ash on the posterior. Sides and under parts of head and neck, with upper part of breast, ash color, passing 

 insensibly into whitish on tiie middle of the body ; sides and under tail coverts tinged with brownish. A yellowish spot above 

 the eye, bounded anteriorly by a short black line from the eye to the black of the forehead. This yellow spot, however, reduced 

 to a few feathers in spring dress. Interscapular region, with the feathers, streaked with dark brown, suffused with dark rufous 

 externally. Two narrow white bands on the wings. 



Length, about 7 inches ; wing, 3.30. 



Hab. — Pacific coast from Russian America to southern California ; Black Hills of Rocky Mountains. .' 



In the Oregon specimen described above, (2780) and wbich served as the original of Mr. 

 Audubon's description and figure, the black stripes on the crown extend down as far as the pos- 

 terior canthus of the eye, obliterating any black line behind it. In 5550, from Petaluma, Cali- 

 fornia^ however, there is an ashy streak above the eye bordering the black, similar to the pattern 



