280 



N( HITH AMERICAN BIllDS. 



B« ("rowii like tlio l>ai'k. A wdl-dorinod supornilinry liirlit stripo. 



Thickly siiciikcil lioiiciitli, iiioludiii}^ I'lissiini. Groiiiiil-uolor and Kiiporoiliary 

 stripe yiiilowisii. Hill .siuall »S'. tioaehnrareiisis. 



Sparsely streaked beneafli ; tliroat and orissum ininuuMilatc. Ground-color 

 and superciliary strijje while. Bill very large . . . . H. ludoviduuitx. 



Seiunis aurocapillus, Swaixs. 



OOLDEN-CaOWNEO THBUSH. 



Motacilla atirncapilla, Linn. S. JT. I, 1766, 334. Ttirdus ntir. Lath. ; Wils. Am. Orn. 

 II, pi. xiv, lif.'. 2. — All). Orn. Hio<;. II, pi. cxliii. Siilviti niir. Wifs. Scinriui aur. 

 SWAINSON, Zool. Jour. Ill, 1S27, 171. — lUiiii), IHrds N. Am. 1858, 260 ; I{«v. 214. 

 — MooKK, P. Z. S. 18,->n, 55 (Honduras). — Max. Cab. .loiir. 18.58, 177. — Jonks, Nat. 

 Ucrinuila, 27. Jleii ion-k/ihi aur. Sci.ATKli, Catal. 1861, 25, no. 15i). — (JiNni.Acll, 

 Cal). Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba). Seiunis aur. D'OiMi. Sajjra's Cuba, 1840, 55. — Daij. & 

 Hanxisti'.I!, Tr. Chic Ac. I, ISO!), 278 (.Vlaska). — .Samtki.s, 218. Turdus coronaliis, 

 ViKlu.. Ois. II. 1807 8. 



Other loealities (piotcd : ( v/oivf, .Sci.ATK I!, V. 7.. S. 1856, 293. St. Domivfio, Sai,I.1% V. Z. S. 

 1857, 231. Ouiitciiiiil', Sc\,\TtM ii. Sm.vis, Ibis, I, 185i>, 10. Santa Crm (winter), 

 Ni;\vroN, Ibis, 1859, 142. Vidia (winter), Cab. Jour. Ill, 471. Jamaica, (Iossk, 

 Birds, 152. —ScLATKi!, P. Z. S. 1861, 70. CVi.s7,( A'/w, Cad. Jour. 1861, 84. Onzuba 

 (winter), Sr.MicniSAsr. i'acataii, Lawk. Chii-iqiii, .Salv. 



Sp. Char. Above unirorni olivo-rrrocn, with a tinrje ol' yellow. Crown with two nar- 

 row .streaks of black iroin the bill, enclosing a median and much broader one of brownish- 

 orange. Beneath white ; the breast, sides of the bod}', and a niaxillarj' line, streaked with 

 black. The female and young of the year are not a|)preciably diHerent. Length, 0.00; 

 wing, 3.00 ; tail, 2.40. 



IIah. Eastern Province of North .\inerica, north to English River, II. 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). 



IIabit.s. The Golden-crowned Tlirnsh, or Oven-Uird, as in some portions 



of the country it is exclusively called, 

 inhabits the whole of eastern North 

 America, as far to the west as the Great 

 IMains, and to the north at least as far 

 as English liiver. In the winter .season 

 it has heen found in Mexico, St. Domin- 

 go, Jamaica, Cuba, and other West Indiii 

 islands, and in Central AnuM'ica is also 

 very common. Afr. Sumichrast also 

 speaks of it as common at Orizaba 

 during the same season, and it has l)een 

 found in the IJermudas and the IJahanias. 

 In all these places it usually ap])ears early in the autunni and remains until 

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

 liichardson met with its nest on the banks ot the Saskatchewan, and was 



,Sfiiint» atiforupiUus. 



