132 MNIOTILTID ZA. 
Hab. Nortu America, Eastern States 1°, Texas 1*.—Mexico, Jalapa (de Oca"), Playa 
Vicente (Boucard 18), Merida, Yucatan (Schott"); Guatemaua (Delattre!), Duefias, 
Coban 2, Choctum, Telemans (0. 8S. &@ F. D. G.); Honpuras, San Pedro (G. WM. 
Whitely*); Costa Rica (v. Frantzius™), Grecia and Barranca (Carmiol °), 
Angostura (Carmiol); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Chitra, Calovevora (Arcé !), 
Santa Fé (Arcé®), Lion Hill (AZ Leannan ° *).—Banama Isianps 1, 
Very little is known of Dendreca pennsylvanica in Mexico; for though both de Oca 
and Boucard found it in the State of Vera Cruz 1" 18, Prof. Sumichrast omits to mention 
it, nor do we find its name included in the lists of the birds of Western Mexico. In 
Guatemala it is not a common species in the winter months, though we found it dis- 
persed over a wide area; but in Costa Rica and the adjoining State of Panama it is 
abundant, judging from the number of specimens that have been sent us from there. 
Here a large proportion of the emigrants from the north must pass the winter; and in 
seeking these countries from the Eastern States they omit to stop on any of the West-India 
Islands on their route, with the exception of the Bahamas, where Bryant found this 
bird 16, The line of the Panama railway seems to be the limit of its wanderings, as we 
have no record of its passing into the southern continent. 
In the north its range extends almost exclusively to the Eastern States and Canada ®, 
and it breeds abundantly in New England !*. Its nest is described as being constructed 
of strips of red-cedar bark, well lined with coarse hair, and placed in the fork of a 
low bush four or five feet from the ground. ‘The eggs are white, blotched and dotted 
over the entire surface with profuse markings of lavender and dark purple intermixed 
with lighter spots of reddish brown }. 
For full references to the literature of the species Dr. Coues’s work had best be 
consulted 8. 
9, Dendreca castanea. 
Sylvia castanea, Wils. Am. Orn. ii. p. 97, t. 14. £41. 
Dendreca castanea, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 11°; P. Z. 8S. 1864, p. 347°; 1879, p. 494°; Cassin, 
Pr. Ac. Phil. 1860, p. 193°; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 822°; Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 
no. 4, p. 15"; Baird, Rev. Am. B.i. p. 189°; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 322°; Baird, Brew. & 
Ridgw. N. Am. B. i. p. 251°; Coues, B. Col. Vall. i. p. 2431. 
Supra dorso medio nigro, plumis singulis pallido badio limbatis; uropygio cinereo, tectricibus supracaudalibus 
in medio nigris ; capite summo, gula tota et hypochondriis lete badiis ; fronte et capitis lateribus nigris ; 
alis et cauda fusco-nigris, cinereo limbatis, illis albo bifasciatis, hac in pogonio rectricum duarum externarum 
interne plaga alba notata ; subtus abdomine medio albo vix badio tincto; rostro corneo, pedibus corylinis. 
Long. tota 4°6, alee 3, caudze 2:2, rostri a rictu 0°6, tarsi 0°7. (Descr. maris ex Veraguas in Statu Pana- 
mensi. Mus. nostr.) 
© supra olivacea, dorso vix fusco striato; superciliis, genis et corpore subtus olivaceo-albis. (Descr. femins ex 
Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Nortu America, Eastern Province, north to Hudson’s Bay !°4.— Mexico, Tehuan- 
