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15- (557)- Zo?iotrichiacoro7iata [VoXX.). Golden-crowned Sparrow. 



This Western bird has been taken several times in Wisconsin, 

 near Racine, from 1853 to 1858, both spring and fall, by Dr. Hoy 

 (Birds of Wis., 1903, p. 99). John Krider states: " I .shot one 

 of these birds in September, 1872, in a garden in Tyake Mills, 

 Winnebago county, Iowa " (Forty Years' Notes, p. 47). Refer- 

 ring to this record, Witner Stone, of the Philadelphia Academy 

 of Science, says: " His Z. coronata may be a female or young of 

 Z. qxcerida or the last (Z. leucophrys gambeli).'" M. E. Halvorsen 

 reports a specimen taken at Forest City, Winnebago county, say- 

 ing: "I identified the bird for Dr. Irish, but may have been 

 mistaken." 



16. (588). Pipilo maadatiis arctiais (Sw.). Arctic Towhee. 



Dr. Coues gives the range of this species as " Central region of 

 North America from limit of erythrophthahmis in Kansas, Nebraska 

 and Dakota to that of oregomis in Oregon, Washington and Brit- 

 ish Columbia, etc." " Casually to Iowa (Dubuque), and even to 

 Wisconsin (Milwaukee)" (Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Am., i, 

 p. 423; Nelson, Bull. Essex. Inst., viii, 1876, p. no). Kumlien 

 and Hollister state that one was noted by Dr. Hoy in a collection 

 of birds at Dubuque, which had been taken on the Wisconsin 

 side of the river. One specimen has been shot in Jefferson 

 county and another near Milwaukee (Bds. of Wis., p. 102). 

 ' ' Northern and western Nebraska in summer, whole state during 

 migration — east in Niobrara valley to its mouth — West Point, 

 Omaha, etc." (Rev. Bds. Neb., p. 91). I carefully examined a 

 large series of Towhees from western Iowa, Sioux City, etc., in 

 the Talbot collection, but was unable to find a specimen referable 

 to Pipilo maadatus ardicus, all the Iowa birds being unmistak- 

 ably erythrophthahnus. 



17. (597). Zavielodia mclanoccphala (^\N'ix\\Vr^Q>\\) . Black-headed 



Gro.sbeak. 



There are no Iowa records, but in Nebraska it is reported 

 "during migration over the state, rarely to Neligli, York, 

 Omaha" (Rev. Bds. Neb., 1904, p. 91). 



(Proc. D. a. S., Vot.. XI. 1 52 IJan- 30, 1907-1 



