Golden-crowned Sparrow 367 
Golden-crowned Sparrow. JZonotrichia coronata. 
A.O.U. Checklist no 557—Colorado Records—Osburn 93, p. 212; 
Cooke 97, p. 102; Warren 09, p. 33. 
Description.—Male—Top of the crown golden-yellow, bounded in 
front and on either side by a pair of black bands extending to the nape ; 
occiput, sides of the head and throat ashy-grey ; upper-parts brown ; 
the back streaked with black ; tips of the middle and greater coverts 
white, forming two distinct wing-bands; below ashy to brownish- 
grey, nearly white on the abdomen. Length 7-10; wing 3-20; tail 
3-0; culmen -50; tarsus -93. 
The female closely resembles the male; the young birds have the 
head brown flecked with dusky and a wash of golden on the crown, but 
hardly any indication of the black side-bands at first. 
Distribution.— Breeding in Alaska ; south in winter along the Pacific 
coast as far as Lower California and straggling eastwards to Nevada 
and Colorado. 
There are only two records for Colorado: Osburn observed a small 
flock of this species in the winter of 1889, in thickets along the Big 
Thompson near Loveland, mixed with flocks of the Gambel Sparrow 
on February 23rd; and Frey obtained a young male at Salida on April 
19th, 1908, now in the Colorado College Museum. 
White-throated Sparrow. Zonotrichia albicollis. 
A.O.U. Checklist no 558—Colorado Records—Beckham 87, p. 122 ; 
Morrison 89, p. 37; H. G. Smith 96, p. 76; Cooke 97, pp. 103, 166. 
Description.—Male—Crown with a median white band separating 
two lateral black bands, these again separated from a black postocular 
band by a superciliary stripe, yellow anteriorly, white posteriorly ; 
rest of the upper-parts brown, more reddish and streaked with black 
on the middle of the back ; wing-coverts tipped white, forming a double 
wing-bar ; edge of the wing pale yellow ; below ashy-grey, paler on the 
abdomen, and a well defined white patch on the throat margined laterally 
with a narrow black rictal streak. Length 6-5; wing 2-8; tail 2-75; 
culmen -40; tarsus -88. 
The female is very similar, but rather duller and slightly smaller ; 
the young bird has the head markings ill-defined, of dark and light 
brown and no yellow eye-stripe ; the chin-patch is indistinct and the 
breast slightly streaked with dusky. 
Distribution.—Eastern North America, breeding from Massachusetts 
and eastern Montana northwards to Hudson Bay and Labrador ; 
south in winter to Florida and Texas. 
The White-throated Sparrow is a rare straggler to Colorado during 
the autumn migration. It has been recorded on three occasions only : 
