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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



B. CroAvn like the back. A well-defined superciliary light stripe. 



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

 stripe yellowish. Bill small ....... S. noveboracensis. 



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

 and su2:)erciliary stripe white. Bill ver}' large . . . . S. ludovicianus. 



Seiurus aurocapillus, Swains. 



GOLDEN-CROWNED THRUSH. 



Motacilla aurocapilla, Linn. S. N. I, 1766, 334. Turd^is aur. Lath. ; Wils. Am. Orii. 

 II, pi. xiv, fig. 2. — AuD. Orn. Biog. II, pi. cxliii. Sylvia aur. Bon. Seiurus aw. 

 SwAiNSON, Zobl. Jour. Ill, 1827, 171. — Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 260 ; Rev. 214. 

 — Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, 55 (Honduras). — Max. Cab. Jour. 1858, 177. —Jones, Nat. 

 Bermuda, 27. Henicocichla aur. Sclater, Catal. 1861, 25, no. 159. — Gundlacii, 

 Cab. Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba). Seiurus aur. D'Orb. Sagra's Cuba, 1840, 55. — Dall i^ 

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

 ViEiLL. Ois. II. 1807, 8. 



Other localities quoted : Cordova, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, 293. St. Domingo, Salle, P. Z. S. 

 1857, 231. Guatemala, Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, 1, 1859, 10. Santa Cruz (winter), 

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

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

 (winter), Sumichrast. 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 nuich 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 different. Length, G.OO ; 

 wing, 3.00 ; tail, 2.40. 



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

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

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

 (Jones). 



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



of the country it is exclusively called, 

 inhabits the whole of eastern North 

 America, as far to the west as tlie 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 other West India 

 islands, and in Central America is also 

 very common. Mr. Sumichrast also 

 speaks of it as common at Orizaba 

 during the same season, and it has been 

 found in the Bermudas and the Bahamas. 

 In all these j)laces it usually appears early in the autunni and remains until 

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

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



Seiurui aurocapillus. 



