BLACK-AND- YELLOW-CROWNED FINCH. 47 



Bill dusky ; feet and claws reddish-brown. The head and throat 

 are black ; the back yellowish-green, the rump and lower parts green- 

 ish-yellow ; the wings black, with two bands of yellowish-green ter- 

 minating the first row of small coverts, and the secondary coverts, and 

 a conspicuous band of yellow on the basal portion of all the quills, most 

 of which are margined toward the end with the same. Tail yellow at 

 the base, black toward the end. 



Length to end of tail 4| inches, bill along the ridge 4^| ; wing from 

 flexure 2^1 ; tail li§ ; tarsus f| ; hind toe ^^, its claw -^^ ; middle toe 

 ^, its claw is- 



BLACK-AND-YELLOW-CROWNED FINCH. 



Emberiza atricapilla, Gmel. 



PLATE CCCXCIV. Male. 



The only account which I have received of this handsome Finch, 

 long since known to the ornithologist, is from Mr Nuttall : — " We 

 first observed the young of this species on the central table-land of 

 the Rocky Mountains, in the prairies, and mostly running on the 

 ground. We heard no note from them. We afterwards saw a few 

 stragglers, in the early part of winter, in the thickets of the forests of 

 the Columbia River, near Fort Vancouver, accompanying the Fringilla 

 leucophrps. It is probable that they come there to pass the cold sea- 

 son. They are equally seen at this time, and until late in the spring, 

 in the woods and thickets of Upper California. 



Emberiza atricapilla, Ginel. Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 875. — Lath. Ind. Ornith. vol. i. 

 p. 415. 



Adult Male. Plate CCCXCIV. Fig. 3. 



Bill short, stout, narrower than the head, conical, somewhat com- 

 pressed toward the end, acute ; upper mandible with its dorsal out- 

 line nearly straight, the ridge convex and obscure, the sides rounded, 

 the edges somewhat inflected, with a very small notch at the end, the 



