SETOPHAGA. 179 
This well-known species, the only migratory member of the genus, has a very wide 
range in the winter months throughout Eastern Mexico and the whole of Central 
America; and beyond these limits it extends its travels as far south as about the line of 
the equator, being found at this season throughout the northern portion of the South- 
American continent, and probably in all of the West-Indian Islands. Its limits in 
Mexico seem confined to the eastern portion of the republic, as we have no tidings of it 
from Western Mexico ; but as we approach the southern frontier it crosses to the Pacific, 
and has been recorded from Tehuantepec by Professor Sumichrast 24. In Guatemala it 
spreads from one ocean to the other, and in altitude to about 8000 feet. We find it, 
however, at the sea-level near Belize and elsewhere; and it is more common in the hot 
than in the colder country. In other parts of Central America it is equally abundant ; 
and hardly a collection of birds made during the winter months in that country fails to 
contain specimens, 
Its habits have been very fully described by North-American writers, amongst whom 
Dr. Coues may be specially mentioned *?. In Guatemala its chief resort is second-growth 
woods and the edges of the older forests, where its search for insects is carried on with 
incessant perseverance. 
In the north it only resides during the summer, when the business of reproduction is 
carried out. It there spreads over temperate North America, especially the Eastern 
Province, its northern limit reaching Fort Simpson, and its western Utah 22. 
Its nest is described as placed in a fork of a tree about five feet from the ground, and 
as composed of varied materials, such as vegetable fibres, grass, strips of bark, &c.; these 
are loosely woven and lined with fine grasses, pine-leaves, and horsehair. The eggs, 
five in number, are white, blotched and dotted with purple, lilac, and brown *1, 
B. Serus similes; ale breviores, magis rotundate ; rectrices laterales fere tote aut in 
parte terminalt late albe. 
a. Supra nitenti-nigra; speculum alare late album; abdomen coccineum. 
2. Setophaga picta. 
Setophaga picta, Sw. Zool. Til. ser. 2, i. t. 8°; Bp. Consp. i. p. 312°; Scl. P. Z.S. 1855, p. 66°; 
1856, p. 292*; 1858, p. 299°; 1859, p. 374°, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 12"; Baird, U.S. 
Bound. Surv. ii. Birds, p. 11°; Rev. Am. B.i. p. 256°; Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p.110*°; Sumi- 
chrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 546"*; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 2707; 
Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 167°; Coues, B. Col. Vall. i. p. 835"; Salv. Ibis, 1878, 
p. 306”. 
Muscicapa leucomus, Giraud, Sixteen B. Tex. t. 6. f. 1°. 
Muscicapa tricolor, Licht. Mus. Berol.” (fide Bp. Consp. i. p. 312). 
Nitenti-nigra ; macula supra et infra oculos, tectricibus alarum mediis et majoribus, secundariorum marginibus$ 
subalaribus et ventre imo albis, crisso albo ad basin nigro; abdomine medio coccineo ; rectrice extima 
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