180 MNIOTILTID. 
utrinque fere omnino alba proxime parte basali nigra, tertia albo terminata, reliquis omnino nigris ; rostro 
et pedibus nigris. Long. tota 5:0, ale 2°6, caude 2:5, rostri a rictu 0-55, tarsi 0°7. (Descr. maris ex 
Santa Barbara, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Q mari similis, sed coloribus paulo obscurioribus. 
Av. horn. sordide niger ; abdomine albido sordide brunneo maculato. 
Hab. Nortn America, Arizona!4.—Mexico, Boquillo (Cowch®), Real del Monte 
(Taylor1), Zacatecas”, Sierra Madre (Grayson }*), alpine region of Vera Cruz 
(Sumichrast 11), near city of Mexico (Sallé*, le Strange), La Parada® and Cinco 
Sefiores ® (Boucard), Gineta Mountains (Sumichrast *); Guatemata’, Volcan de 
Fuego °, ridge near Chol, San Gerénimo, Santa Barbara, Chilasco, and Tactic 
(0. 8S. & F. D. G.); Honpvras, Comayagua (Hdwards '), 
This pretty Setophaga was first made known to science by Swainson, who described 
and figured a bird sent to Mr. John Taylor from Real del Monte in Mexico; and for 
the past five-and-twenty years it has become familiar to us from the number of specimens 
sent from various parts of the Mexican highlands, where it enjoys a wide range, being 
known from Arizona * and Nuevo Leon ° in the north to the Gineta Mountains in the 
State of Chiapas 4°. Grayson, who observed it in Sierra Madre, near Mazatlan, speaks 
of it as having all the habits of the Warblers, being always very busy, actively hopping 
amongst the branches in-search of insects, uttering at the same time a chirping note. 
The tail is often spread just enough to show distinctly the broad white tips of the outer 
feathers 2, Prof. Sumichrast places it amongst the birds of the alpine region of Vera 
Cruz, being found at elevations ranging between 4600 and 8200 feet; and most of the 
other Mexican localities given above lie at a considerable elevation. In Guatemala, 
too, it is a bird characteristic of the upland oak-forests, and we found it at various 
places between 8000 or 9000 feet in the Volcan de Fuego, and 3000 feet near San Ger6- 
nimo. As in Mexico it is a conspicuous species, soon attracting attention by its restless 
movements, and its habit of opening its tail and showing the white tips to the outer 
rectrices. Beyond Guatemala we know nothing of it, except the note of Mr. Taylor 
that Mr. Edwards obtained a specimen near Comayagua in Honduras, indicating that 
it probably occurs in the higher forest-clad mountains which lie between that State and 
Guatemala. 
Setophaga picta having been included in Giraud’s ‘Sixteen Birds of Texas’ under 
the name of Muscicapa leucomus * 1®, has long had a quasi footing as a member of the 
United-States fauna. Owing to its recent discovery in Southern Arizona, its status is now 
established. Capt. Bendire met with it near Tucson in 1872, and Mr. W. H. Henshaw 
in the two following years in different parts of Southern Arizona, where it was breeding 14. 
According to the observations of the latter naturalist, S. pzcta leaves Arizona in the winter 
months. We have no evidence of any migratory movement of the species in Guatemala, 
where we believe it is found throughout the year, and where it certainly breeds, as we 
have a specimen in first plumage from that country. This being the case, it would 
