70 SEIURUS AUEOCAPILLUS, GOLDEN-CROWNED THRUSH. 



it in almost every situatipa in whicli any Warbler could be expected. 

 Mr. Allen has accurately indicated tbe variability of its resorts : " During 

 the last weeks of April and the early part of May, they frequent open 

 fields, obtaining much of their iood from the ground, associating with 

 D. palmarum, and at this time closely resembling it in habits. A little 

 later they retire to the pine forests, where they almost exclusively re- 

 main during summer, keeping mostly in the tops of the taller trees. 

 During a few weeks, about October 1st, they again come about the or- 

 chards and fields." This note refers to Massachusetts. In Florida, where 

 the same writer found it abundant in winter, he states that it is much 

 on the ground at that season, and that it comes into full song in Febru- 

 ary, from which latter circumstance we may conclude it is then pairing. 

 The song is rather weak and monotonous — a chirring trill, insuscepti- 

 ble of adequate translation into words; and during most of the year 

 only a slight chirp is heard. The bird is of a sociable if not gregarious 

 nature, usually going in straggling comijanies of its own kind, and often 

 mixing with Titmice, Kinglets, and Nuthatches, the whole throng gaily 

 and amicably flitting through the shady woods, scrambling incessantly 

 on and all around the branches of the trees in eager, restless quest of 

 their minute insect food. 



^^ SEIUEUS AUEOCAPILLUS, (Linn.) Sw. .■'- 

 Golden-crowned Thrnsh; Orange-crowned Accentor. 



Motacilla mirocapiUa, Lixx., Syst. Nat. i, 1766, 334.— Gji., op. cit. 1788, 982. 



Tardus aurocapillus, Lath., IdiI. Oru. ii, 1790, 328. — WiLS., Am. Orn. iii, 1810, 88, pi. 14, 

 f. 2.— NiTT., Man. i, 1832, 355.— AuD., Dm. Biog. ii, 1834, 2.53, pi. 143. 



Sylvia aurocapiUa, Bp., Journ. Phila. Acad, iv, 1826, 35; Syn. 1828, 77. 



Heiurus aurocapillus, Sw., Zool. Journ. iii, 1827, 171. — Sw. & Rich., F. B. A. ii, 1831, 227. — 

 D'Oebig., La Sagra's Cuba, 1840, 55.— AuD., B. Am. iii, 35, pi. 148.— Bd., B. N. 

 A. 1858, 260; Rev. 18G5, 214.— MooEB, P. Z. S. 1859, 55 (Houdurae).— JIaxim., 

 J. f. 0. 1858, 177.— Jones, Berm. 27.— Hayd., Rep. 1862, 160.— Hoy, Suiiths. 

 Rep. 1864, 437 ( Missouri).— Sumich., Mem. Bost. Soc. i, 1869, 547 (Orizaba, &c.).— 

 Lawr., Ann. Lye. ix, 1868, 94 (Costa Rica); 1869, 200 (Yucatan).— Dall & 

 Bamx., Tr. Chic. Acad, i, 1869, 268 (Alaslia, breeding).— ScL., P. Z. S. 1856, 2l!3 

 (Cordova).— SalliS, ibid. 1857, 231 (St. Domingo). — Newtox, Ibis, i, 1842 (Santa 

 Cruz).— Cab., J. f. O. iii, 471 (Cuba).— GosSE, B. Jam. 7C2.— Scl., P. Z. S. 1861; 

 70.— Cab., J. f. 0. 1H61, 80 (Costa Eica).— Salv., P. Z. S. 1870, 164 (Cbiriqui).— 

 Allex, Bull. M. C. Z. ii, 1871, 269 (Florida, wintering). — Allex, op. eii. iii, 1872, 

 125 (Eastern Kansas, May). — CouES, Key, 1872, 105, fig. 45; and of all late 

 United States writers. 



Accentor aurocapillus, Rich., List, 1837. 



EnicocicWa aurocapilla, Gray. 



Henicocichla aurocapilla, Cab.— GrxDL., J. f 0. 1861, 326 (Cuba).— ScL., Cat. 1862, 25; 

 P. Z. S. 1870, 836 (Honduras). 



lurdus coronatus, Vieh-l., Ois. Am. Sept. ii, 1807, 8, pi. 64. 



Hah. — Eastern Province North America ; west to Platte and XcUowstone, and thence 

 to Alaska. Winters sparingly in Florida and along Gulf coast, but the greater number 

 enter the West Indies, Mexico, and Central America (numerous quotations). Mazatlan. 

 Breeds almost throughout its North American range. 



Lieutenant Wairen's Expedition. — 4714,4717, month of Pl.atte River; 4715, Bald Island ; 

 4716, James River; 4718^29, Vermilion River; .5257, Medicine River. 



Not obtained by Captain Raynolds' Expedition. 



Chiefly characteristic of the Eastern Province. Audubon's Columbia 

 Eiver reference has never been contirmed, but is by no means improba- 

 bly correct, since we have the bird from Denver, Colorado, from near 

 the Yellowstone, and in Alaska. The extralimital quotations are both 

 numerous and diversified, showing how generally dispersed the species 

 is at that season, and how far south it proceeds. It is one of our most 

 abundant woodland birds in summer, noted for its loud, monotonous 

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