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63. Zonotricliia gambeli, (Forst.).—Gambel’s Finch. 
The true Gambel’s Finch is confined to the Pacific province, where it breeds as far to 
the north as Kodiak. I was unable to detect its presence in the mountains about Fort 
Tejon in summer, and I am inclined to believe that it does not breed in the sierras 
south at least of the latitude of San Francisco. 
Among a large number of the preceding birds, shot near Mount Whitney in Septem¬ 
ber, were only two of this variety. About San Francisco, too, where in November the 
other variety was so numerous, I succeeded in finding but a single pair, an adult and 
a young bird. They are thus probably quite local in their habitat, and resident to a 
great extent, though in their wanderings for food they extend some distance farther 
south in the fall and winter than their regular habitat. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
Date. 
Collector. 
485 
9 ad. 
9 jun. 
Near Mount Whitney, Cal .. 
Sept. 19 
Sept. 19 
H. W. Henshaw. 
486 
.do. 
Do. 
64. Zonotricliia coronata, Pallas.—Golden-crowned Sparrow. 
Emberiza coronata , Pallas Zoog. Posso-Asiat., ii, 1811, 44. 
Zonotricliia coronata , Bd., B. N. A., 1858, 461.—Xantus, Proc. Phila. Acad. Xat. Sci., 1859, 191. — 
Coop. & Suckl., P. P. P. Pep., vol. 12, pt. ii, 1860, 201.—Coop., B. Cal., i, 1870, 197.—B., B., & 
P., N. A. B., ii, 1874, 573.—Nelson, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. xvii, 359 (California). 
Zonotricliia aurocapilla , Newb., P. P. P. Pep., vi, 1857, 88. 
In its fall migration, this Sparrow appears to follow pretty exclusively the mountain- 
ranges, where it is found from their bases up to an altitude of about 6,000 or 7,000 feet, 
thus avoiding the higher summits and not descending into the valleys. It is a brush- 
loving species, and inhabits the thickest chaparral of oak-scrub or “blue brush/’ some¬ 
times in flocks of its own kind, oftener in company with the other Zonotricliia and the 
Pipilos. Its habits differ in no noteworthy respect from those of its congeners. Its 
food, which in the fall consists almost entirely of the seeds of grasses and weeds, is 
obtained from the ground, the various species mingling together in perfect amity as 
they conduct their search. By the 10th of November most of the young birds had 
passed north, those remaining being for the most part in the adult plumage. Later in 
the fall and in winter their diffusion becomes more general. In company with the var. 
intermedia, they were seen in the hedge-rows and weed-patches about Oakland, where 
they spend the winter. Probably more or less remain in the mountains of Northern 
California during the summer. Heerman, as quoted, mentions finding a nest of this 
species near Sacramento. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
Date. 
Collector. 
Wing. 
Tail. 
Bill. 
Tarsus. 
564 
9 ad. 
Mountains near Kernville, Cal. 
Oct. 
16 
H. W. Henshaw. 
3. 30 
3. 37 
0. 47 
0. 95 
568 
cj* ad. 
.do . .. 
Oct. 
16 
... .do. 
3. 28 
3. 45 
0. 50 
0. 88 
668 
cT ad. 
Walker’s Basin, Cal. 
Nov. 
9 
_do. 
3. 20 
3. 48 
0. 50 
0. 95 
609 
cf ad. 
Mountains near Kernville, Cal. 
Oct. 
25 
_do. 
3. 32 
3. 63 
0. 46 
0. 92 
6L1 
9 
.do. 
Oct. 
25 
__do. 
3. 08 
3.17 
0. 47 
0. 93 
561 
H* iun. 
.do. 
Oct. 
10 
_do. 
3. 26 
3. 40 
0. 45 
0. 97 
565 
rf iun. 
.do. 
Oct. 
16 
_do. 
3. 22 
3. 37 
0. 50 
1. 00 
566 
9 inn. 
.do.-. 
Oct. 
16 
_do. 
3.15 
3. 25 
0. 45 
0. 92 
565 
rf iun. 
.do. 
Oct. 
10 
__do. 
2. 93 
3. 05 
0. 48 
0. 90 
603 
9 iun. 
.do. 
( let,. 
25 
_do. 
3. 07 
3. 25 
0. 49 
0. 93 
604 
9 iun. 
.do. 
Oct. 
25 
__do. 
3.14 
3. 33 
0. 48 
0. 95 
567 
0 inn. 
_..do. 
Oct. 
16 
_do. 
605 
9 inn. 
.do. 
Oct, 
25 
__do.. 
607 
9 inn. 
.do .. 
Oct 
25 
_do. 
608 
cf iun. 
.do. 
Oct. 
25 
_do. 
715 
2 iun. 
.do. 
Nov. 
11 
_do. 
540 
9 iun. 
Near Wbitney, Cal. 
Oct. 
10 
_do. 
610 
cf iun. 
Mountains near Kernville, Cal. 
Oct. 
25 
__do. 
618 
9 iun. 
.do. 
Oct. 
25 
_do. 
614 
cf iun. 
.do. 
Oct. 
25 
_do .. 
612 
2 iun. 
.do. 
Oct. 
25 
_do. 
613 
cf iun. 
.do. 
Oct. 
25 
_do. 
615 
cf jun. 
.do. 
Oct. 
25 
_do. 
616 
9 iun. 
Oct. 
25 
__do. 
617 
cf jun. 
.do. 
Oct. 
25 
_do. 
569 
cf jun. 
.do. 
Oct. 
16 
_do. 
619 
cf jun. 
.do. 
Oct. 
25 
_do. 
695 
cf jun. 
Walker’s Basin, Cal. 
Nov. 
ii 
_do. 
696 
cf jun. 
Nov. 
10 
_do. 
737 
Jun. 
Mountains near Kernville, Cal. 
Oct. 
25 
_do. 
