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Uniform yellowish-clive above, yellow below, paler or white on belly and under tail 
coverts, shaded and sometimes obsoletely streaked with darker on the sides; superciliary 
line yellow; wing-bars white; tail blotches confined to two outer pairs of feathers, large, 
oblique. Female and young similar, duller; sometimes merely clive-gray above and 
sordid whitish be‘ow. The variations in precise shade are interminable, but the species 
may always be known by the lack of any special sharp markiugs whatever, except 
the superciliary line; and by the combiuation of white wing-bars with large ob.ique 
tail sp ts confined te the two outer pairs of feathers. Length, 54 to nearly 6 inches. 
Habitat, Eastern province of North America, north to Canada and New Brunswick 3 
west to Missouri and Kansas. Bermudas. Bahamas. 
Not common spring and fall migrant. April, May, and September. 
Not included in Dr: Kirtland’s or Mr. Read’s lists. Inserted in my list 
of 1861 on the authority of Mr. Winslow. Mr. Langdon gives it as a rare 
migrant in April. I know of but three specimens from this vicinity, 
taken by Dr. Theo. Jasper, Oliver Davie, and Arnold Boyle, in May. I 
have seen it but twice, once in spring in company with Yellow-rumps, 
and one individual in September in a garden of this city, on the ground. 
This species, as its name indicates, prefers pine woods, which may be 
the reason why so few have been found in Southern and Middle Ohio. 
It is said to breed throughout its United States range, but no instance of 
its breeding in this State has been recorded. 
The nest is said to be built in pine trees, and near the top. It is con- 
structed of strips of the vark of cedar or other trees and fine grasses, and 
lined with down, hair, and feathers. 
Dr. Brewer describes the eggs as of a rounded oval shape, with an 
average diameter of .72 of an inch, and a breadth of .55. “The ground- 
color is a bluish-white. Scattered over this are subdued tintings of a 
fine delicate shade of purple, and upon this are distributed dots and 
blotches of a dark purplish-brown, mingled with a few lines almost black.” 
GENUS SIURUS. Swainson. 
Bill compressed, distinctly notched. Rictal bristles very short. Wings moderate, 
pointed, longer than the nearly even tail; first quill scarcely shorter than the second. 
Under tail coverts reaching within about one-half inch of end of tail. Tarsi about as 
long as the skull, considerably exceeding the middle toe. Hind toe short, equal to the 
lateral, its ciaw as long as the digit. Wings and tail immaculate. 
SIURUS AURICAPILLUS (L.) Sw. 
Golden Crowned Thrush. 
Sylvia aurocapilla, KIRTLAND, Ohio Geol. Surv., 1838, 163. 
Turdus aurocapillus, READ, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1853, 399; Proc. Philad. Acad. Nat. Sci., vi, 
1853, 395. 
Seiurus aurocapillus, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 363; Reprint, 1861, 5; Food 
of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 564; Reprint, 1875, 4. 
