BIRDS FEINGILLIDAE — ZONOTKICHIA CORONATA. 461 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex 
& age. 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
'4795 
'4793 
6200 
6198 
6201 
6202 
6203 
6204 
6205 
3341 
4234 
6206 
Opposite Vermillion river. 
Durion's Hill, Nebraska .. 
May 7, 1856 
Lt. Warren 
Dr. Hayden 
7.00 
6.37 
6. 
6 
10.12 
9.12 
9.50 
9 
3.25 
3.00 
3.25 
3 
Iris hazel 
Dec. — , 1854 
9 
White Cliff Creek 
Feb. — , 1854 
Lt. A. W. Whipple. 
65 
64 
61 
Kenn. & Mullh .... 
0 
3 
Q 
Winter '53-4 
Jan., 1853.... 
May, 1803.... 
San Francisco 
6207 
5551 
5552 
4387 
6208 
6209 
6211 
3 
Q 
293 
608 
158 
278 
313 
284 
76 
April 27, 1855 
do 
7.17 
6.75 
10 
9.50 
3.25 
3 
3 
FortSteilacoom, VV. T. .. 
do 
April 19, 1856 
6.50 
do 
6212 
6213 
5978 
5979 
Shoal water Bay, W. T. 
June 16, 1854 
6.62 
6.25 
9.37 
Bill yellow, tipped 
with brown ; iris 
brown : legs yel- 
low. 
Straits of Fuca,W.T 
April, 1855.., 
ZONOTRICHIA COEONATA, Baird. 
Golden-crowned Sparrow. 
Emberiza coronata, Pallas, Zoog. Rosso-Asiat. II, 1811, 44 ; plate. 
Emberiza atricapilla, Aud. Orn. Biog. V. 1839, 47 ; pi. 394 ; (not of Gmelin.) 
Fringilla atricapilla, Aud. Synopsis, 1839, 122.— Ib. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 1G2 ; pi. 193. 
Fringilla aurocapilla, Ncttall, Man. I, (2d ed.) 1840, 555. 
Zonotrichia aurocapilla, Bon. Consp. 1850, 478.— Newberry, Zool. Cal. & Or. Route, Rep. P.R.R.VI, iv, 1857, 
88. 
Emberiza atricapilla, Gm. I, 1788, 875, in part only. — Lath. Ind. 415. 
Black-crowned Bunting, Pennant, Arc. Zool. II, 364.— Lath. II, i, 202, 49 ; tab. Iv. 
Sp. Ch. — Hood, from bill to upper part of nape, pure black, the middle longitudinal third occupied by yellow on the anterior 
half, and pale ash on the posterior. Sides and under parts of head and neck, with upper part of breast, ash color, passing 
insensibly into whitish on the middle of the body ; sides and under tail coverts tinged with brownish. A yellowish spot above 
the eye, bounded anteriorly by a short black line from the eye to the black of the forehead. This yellow spot, however, reduced 
to a few feathers in spring dress. Interscapular region, with the feathers, streaked with dark brown, suffused with dark rufous 
externally. Two narrow white bands on the wings. 
Length, about 7 inches ; wing, 3.30. 
Hab.— Pacific coast from Russian America to southern California ; Black Hills of Rocky Mountains. ? 
In the Oregon specimen described above, (2780) and which served as the original of Mr. 
Audubon's description and figure, the black stripes on the crown extend down as far as the pos- 
terior canthus of the eye, obliterating any black line behind it. In 5550, from Petaluma, Cali- 
fornia, however, there is an ashy streak above the eye bordering the black, similar to the pattern 
