280 



N( >IiTH AMERK'AN BlUDS. 



I, Crown liko the l»a<-k. A \vell-(lellno(l siiporoiliary light stripo. 



Thickly streaked ]>eiicath, including crissuni. Ground-color and suporriliary 

 stripe yellowish. IJill small ....... »S'. norehoracensis. 



Sparsely streak'-d heneath ; thnwt and orissum inunaculate. Ground-color 

 and superciliary stripe wiiile. JJill very laige . . . . iS. ludoviciauus. 



Seiurus aurocapillus, Swaixs. 



OOLDEH-CBOWNBD THBU8H. 



MotnciUn avrncapiUa, Linn. S. N. I, 1766, 334. Turduft nnr. Lath. ; "NVils. Am. Orn. 

 II, pi. xiv, tig. 2. — Aid. Orn. Biog. II, i>l, cxliii. Si/fviti (rur. 1»on. ^'riiirus mtr. 

 SwAiNsoN, Zool. Jour. Ill, 1S27, 171. — IJaikd, Bmls X. Am. 1858, 260 ; Kcv. 214. 

 — MooiiK, P. Z. S. 1859, 5a (Honduras). — Max. Cah. Jour. 1858, 177. — Jonks, Nat. 

 B«'rinuda, 27. IlenicoiieJila aur. ScLATEit, Catal. 1861, 25, no. 159. — (tiNDLAcn, 

 Cal». Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba). Seiurus anr. D'Onu. Sagra's Cuba, 1840, 5.5. — Dall k 

 Bannistku, Tr. Chic. Ac. I, 1869, 278 (Alaska). — Samtels, 218. Tunlus coronatus, 

 ViKiLL. Ois. II. 1807, 8. 



Dtlu'r localities <|Uoted : Confnvx, Sci.ATF.n, P. Z. S. 1856, 293. .S7. Dorniur/n, Sali.k, P. Z. S. 

 1857, 231. Guiifoiiald, Sclatkk ^ Salvin, Ibis, I, 1859, 10. Saittn Cruz (winter), 

 Nkwton, Ibis, 1859, 142. Cnhx (winter). Cab. Jour. Ill, 471. Jaiuaica, Gosse, 

 Birds, 152. — Sclatec, P. Z. S. 1861, 70. Cosfu Uioi, Cab. Jour. 1861, 84. Orizaba 

 (winter), SrMiciiKAsr. Yiicdtan, Lawk. Chiriqui, Salv. 



Sp. Char. Above uniforni olivo-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 oftlie body, and a maxillary line, streaked with 

 black. The female and young of the year are not appreciably diflerent. Length, G.OO ; 

 wing, 3.00 ; tail. 2.40. 



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

 ka ; west to mouth of Platte, and Denver City, Colorado; Ma/.atlan ; whole 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 tlie country it is exclusively called, 

 inliahits the whole of eastern Nortli 

 America, as far to the west as the Great 

 I'iains, 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 tlie Bahamas. 

 In all tliese places it usually appears early in the autumn and remains until 

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

 Iiicluirdson met with its nest on the banks of the Saskatchew^an, and was 



Seiurus aurocapillus. 



