BIRDS—FRINGILLIDAE—ZONOTRICHIA 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. 
May 7, 1856 
7.00 
10.12 
3.25 
May 9, 1856 
6.37 
9.12 
3.00 
0onn 
9 
6. 
9.50 
3.25 
6 
9 
3 
0901 
Feb. —, 1854 
65 
0909 
64 
6203 
61 
0904 
09OS 
A 
3341 
O 
4934 
V 
Jan., 1853.... 
0906 
May, 1853,... 
0207 
May, 1855.... 
$ 
293 
0052 
9 
April 27, 1855 
608 
7.17 
10 
3.25 
4337 
158 
6.75 
9.50 
3 
6208 
$ 
87 
0209 
278 
0211 
April 19, 1856 
313 
6.50 
10.75 
0210 
March, 1856.. 
284 
6212 
Shoal water Bay, W. T. .. 
76 
6.62 
9.37 
with brown ; iris 
brown: legs yel- 
low. 
6213 
6.25 
9 
5078 
5979 
ZONOTRICHIA CORONATA, Baird. 
Golden-crowned Sparrow. 
Emberiza coronuta, 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, 162; pi. 193. 
Fringilla aurocapilla, Nuttall, 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.—L ath. Ind. 415. 
Black-crowned Banting, Pennant, Arc. Zool. II, 364.— Lath. II, i, 202, 49 ; tab. lv. 
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 
