Golden-crowned Sparrow

SCI Name:  Zonotrichia atricapilla
Protonym:  Emberiza atricapilla Syst.Nat. 1 pt2 p.875
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Passerellidae / Zonotrichia
Taxonomy Code:  gocspa
Type Locality:  'in Sinu Natka, et insulis Sandwich'' ; restricted to Sandwich Sound [= Prince William Sound, Alaska] by Stresemann, 1949, Ibis., 91, n. 249.
Author:  Gmelin, JF
Publish Year:  1789
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ZONOTRICHIA
(Passerellidae; Ϯ White-throated Sparrow Z. albicollis) Gr. ζωνη zōnē  band; θριξ thrix, τριχος trikhos  hair; "superciliis aurantiis  ...  Rostrum fasciaque ocularis atra" (J. Gmelin 1789); "Sub-genus, ZONOTRICHIA.   Bill as in Fringilla.  Wings rather short; the first quill shorter than the four next, which are nearly equal.  Tail rather lengthened, slightly divaricated; the lateral feathers shortened.  Lateral toes unequal.  Types.— Z. leucophrys, Pennsylvanica, melodia, &c." (Swainson 1832); "Zonotrichia Swainson, 1832, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., 2 (1831), p. 493. Type, by subsequent designation (Bonaparte, 1832, Giorn. Arcad. Sci. Lett. Arti [Rome], 52 (1831), p. 206), Fringilla pensylvanica Latham = Fringilla albicollis Gmelin." (Paynter in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 41).
Var. Zonitrichia, Zonotrachia.
Synon. Brachyspiza, Hortulanus.

atricapilla
L. atricapillus  black-haired (i.e. black-capped, black-headed) < ater  black; capillus  hair of the head (cf. L. atricapilla  unknown small bird, perhaps a tit or the Blackcap).
● ex “Merula atricapilla capitis b. spei” of Brisson 1760 (Donacobius).
● ex “Pato cabeza negra” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 438 (Heteronetta).
● ex “Tangara jaune à tête noire de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 809, fig. 2, “Mordoré” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Black-headed Tanager” of Latham 1783 (syn. Lanio fulvus).
● ? ex “Chinese Sparrow” of Edwards 1743, and “Grosbec de la Chine” of Brisson 1760 (Lonchura).
● ex “Merula viridis atricapilla Moluccensis” of Brisson 1760 (syn. Pitta sordida).
● ex “Atricapilla” or “Ficedula” of Aldrovandus 1599, and Willughby 1676, “Black-Cap” of Ray 1713, and “Motacilla testacea, subtus cinerea, pileo obscuro” of Linnaeus 1746 (Sylvia).
● ex “Black-crowned Bunting” of Latham 1783 (Zonotrichia).
● ex “Cap Nègre” of Levaillant 1804, pl. 140 (unident.).