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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Gems SETOPHAGA, Swains. 



Setopltaga, Swainsox, Zotil. Jour. Ill, Dec. 1827, StJO. (Tjije, Muscicapa ruticilla, L.) — 

 lUiiui, Biid.sN. Am. IS.'iS, 297. Hijlvania, Nuttall, Man. Om. 1, 1832. (Same type.) 



Gen. Cuak. Bil 



much depressed, the lateral outlines straight towards tip. Bristles 

 reach half-way from nostril to tip. Culmen almost 

 ~" straight to near the tip; commissure very slightly 

 curved. Nostrils oval, with membrane above them. 

 Wings rather longer than tail, pointed ; second, third, 

 and fourth quills nearly equal ; first intermediate 

 between fourth and fifth. Tail rather long, rather 

 rounded ; the feathers broad, and widening at ends, 

 the outer web narrow. Tarsi with scutellar divis- 

 ions indistinct externally. Legs slender ; toes short, 

 inner cleft nearly to base of first joint, outer with 

 first joint adherent; middle toe without claw, not 

 quite half the tarsus. 



Sdopfiaga ruticilla^ Sw. 



The genus Setoplwfja i.s very largely represented in America, althongh of 

 the many species scarcely any agree exactly in form with the ty|ie. In the 

 following diagnosis I give several species, referred to, perhaps erroneously, as 

 occurring in Texas. 



Belly white. End of lateral tail-feathers black. Sexes dissimilar. 



Ground-color black, without vertex spot. Sides of brca.st and bases of quills 

 and tail-feathers reddish-orange in male, yellowish in female . . . rulU-'dhi. 

 Belly vermilion or carmine red. Lateral tail-feather.«, including their tips, white. 

 Sexes similar. 



Entirely lustrous black, including head and neck. No vertex spot. A 

 white patch on the wings .......... pkta} 



Plumbeous-ash, including head and neck. A chestnut-brown via-tex spot. 

 No white on wings minialar 



Setophaga ruticilla, Swains. 



AMERICAN REDSTART. 



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Motacilla ndwilla, Linn. S3'.st. Nat. 10th ed. H.'iS, 186 (Catesby, Car. tab. 67). Musckajm 

 ruticilla, Linn. ; Gmelin ; Vieillot ; Wii,s. ; BoN. ; AuD. Orn. Biog. I, pi. xl. 

 Setopliaga rut. Swains. Zool. Jour. Ill, 1827, 358. — Bon. ; Ai'D. Birds Am. — 

 ScLATEi;, P. Z. S. (Ecuador, Bogota, Cordova, Oaxaca, City of Mexico). — Sclater & 

 Salvin, Ibis, 18.59, 12 (Gu.atcmala), — Baiud, Birds N. Am. 1858, 297 ; Rev. 256. — 

 Max. ; Salli5, P. Z. S. 1857 (St. Domingo). — Newton, Ibi.s, 1859, 143 (St. Croix; 

 winter). — Cab. Jour. 1856, 472 (Cuba); 1860, 325 (Co.sta Rica). — Gundlacii, ib. 

 1861, 326 (Cuba). — Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. VII, 1859 (Bahamas). — Lawrence, Ann. 

 N. Y. Lye. 1861, 322 (Panama E. R.). —Samuels, 249. Sijlvania rid. Nuttall, 

 Man. I, 1832, 291 (type of genus). Motacilla JlavicoMda, Gmelin, I, 1788, 997 (?). 



1 Setophaga picta (Swainson), Baird, Rev. 1865, 256. Muscicapa leucomtis, Giraud, Texas 

 Birds. Hah. Mexico and Guatemala. 



^ Setophaga miniata (Swainson), Baiud, Kev. 1865, 256. Muscicapa ilcrlmmi, Gir-Vud, 

 Texas Birds. Hab. Mexico. 



