SETOPHAGA. 



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1858, 298, pi. Ixsvii, fig. 2. — Sclater & Salvi.v, Ibis, 1859, 12 

 (Guatemala). 

 Muscicapa leucomus, Giradd, Birds Texas, 1841, pi, vi, fig. 1. — Sclater, 

 P. Z. S. 1855, 66. 

 Hab. All Mexico and Guatemala. 



General color, including sides of body, lustrous black. Eyelids, a larsre 

 patch on the wing, involving the greater and middle coverts, the edges of the 

 secondaries, the inside of wings, axillars, crissum^ tibiffi, outer tail featlier 

 except at base, and a diminishing space on the second and third, white. 

 Middle of breast and abdomen carmine red. Wings and tail equal. 



The white of the crissal feathers is confined to the tips, the rest being black, 

 sometimes showing in the white. The fourth tail feather sometimes has a 

 Blight white tip ; the second feather is almost entirely white. 



I have seen no specimen marked as the female of this beautiful species, 

 but that sex probably differs only in a less intense coloration, and more re- 

 stricted amount of white. There is no appreciable dilTerence between Mexican 

 and Guatemalan skins. 



Length (34,020), 5.00 ; wing, 2.70 ; tail, 2.70 ; tarsus, .65 



This species differs in form from S. miniafa in longer wings and 

 shorter tail — the two being about equal, instead of the tail being 

 considerably the longer. The tarsi of this species are also shorter. 



Setophaga multicolor, Bon.,* from Mexico, seems to differ in having 

 the forehead white, the white of the wings narrower, that of the tail 

 more restricted, the belly white. The species appears to be entirely 

 unknown, except from Bonaparte's description. 



(4,014.^ Eyes brown. 



Myioborus, Baird. (See page 237.) 



Bfijiohorus, Baird. (Type Setophaga verticalis, Sw.) 



Rictal bristles very long, reaching to the end of the bill ; the toes more 

 as in ruticilla, though longer, the middle toe without claw about three-fifths 

 the tarsus. The wings are shorter than the broad, soft, rounded tail, and the 

 wing is much rounded ; the 4th quill longest, the 1st about equal to the 7th. 



Setophaga multicolor. 



Sctophacja multicolor, BoN. Conspectus, 1850, 312. 



Hah. Mexico. 



17 May, 1865. 



Mus. Seuck. 



