A Golden-Crowned Sparrow Lost on Mount Shasta
Journal
Condor
Volume
18
Issue
1 (January-February)
Year
1916
Pages
30
Section
From Field and Study
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A Golden-crowned Sparrow Lost on Mount Shasta
On August 22, 1915, I found a Golden-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia coronata) frozen in the snow at an altitude of 14,350 feet on Mount Shasta. The specimen was forwarded for verification of identity to the California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, where it is preserved as an alcoholic (no. 26531 of the bird collection). Since the bird is apparently in nuptial plumage, it had probably met its fate some time during the preceding spring migration period.
W. J. Chamberlin
Weed, California
