lURDS OP^ NORTH AND MTDDLl-: AMKKICA. 701 



otherwiso siniilur to adults, ])ut hindiu'ck concolor with hack, etc., 

 the color more hrownish olive, and texture of pluiiia<'C nuich looser. 



Adtdt male.— L^n^ih (skins), 93-101.5 (97); wing, 56.5-60 (58.4); 

 tail, 42-46.5 (44.2); exposed culmen, 6-8.5 (7.5); tarsus, 16.5-17.5 

 (17.2); middle toe, 8-9.5 (8.9).« 



Adidt female.— hQ.wgih. (skins), 90-101 (96): wing, 5.5-58 (56.4); 

 tail, 41.5-45 (42.7); exposed culmen, 7-8.5 (7.8); tarsus, 16-17 (16.5); 

 middle toe, 8-9 (8.5)." 



North America east of Rocky Mountains; north to Labrador (as far 

 as Aillik), Keewatin (lower Echimamish), etc.; breeding southward to 

 Massachusetts (Berkshire and riymouth counties), central New York 

 (Oneida Count}^), northern Michigan (Mackinac Island), northern Min- 

 nesota (?), etc., and along Allegheny Mountains to western North 

 Carolina (in spruce belt); wintering southward to northern Florida, 

 and westward along Gulf coast to south-central Texas. 



Regultts cristatus Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 50, pi. 106 (new name for 

 Motac'dla reguluH Linneeus^). — Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila., iv, 

 1824, 187; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 91.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and 

 Can., i, 1832, 420.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 476, pi. 186.— Stejneger, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 30 (crit.). 



Sylvia re (jidus (not Motac'dla reguhts Linna?us) Wilson, Am. Orn., i, 1808, 126, 

 pi. 8, fig. 2. 



Rlegulus'] ,srt/n(j^>a Lichtenstein, Verz. Donbl., 1823, 35 (North America; ex Pauis 

 satrapa Illiger, manu-script). 



Regnliis satrapa Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 19; Consp. Av., i, 1850, 

 291.— Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 82; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 165, pi. 

 132. — WooDHOUSE, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zufii and Col. R., 1853, 67, 

 part (Indian Territory; Texas). — Badeker, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 33, pi. 1, 

 fig. 8 (Labrador; fig. of egg). — Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Sm'v., ix, 1858, 

 227, part (Carlisle, Pennsylvania; District of Cokmibia); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 

 1859, no. 162, part; Review Am. Birds, 1864, 65, part (Sherborn, Massachu- 

 setts; Carlisle; Lil)erty Co., Georgia). — Wili-is, Ann. Rep. Smithson. Inst, 

 for 1858 (1859), 282 (Nova Scotia).— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 476 (San Antonio, 

 Texas, winter). — Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 260 (Jacksonville, 

 Florida, Jan.); Bull. Am. Mus. N. IL, i, 1886, 261 (mountains of Berkshire 

 Co., Massachusetts; breeding?). — Maynard, Birds Florida, 1872, 25. — 

 CouEs, Check List, 1873, no. 22, part; 2ded., 1882, no. 34; Birds N. W., 1874, 

 16, part; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 96, part. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 73, part, pi. 5, fig. 8.— Ingerso!,l, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, i, 1876, 78, part (breeduig habits, etc.). — Brewster, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 19 (descr. young); Auk, iii, 1886, 177 (Black Mts., w. 

 North Carolina, breeding in spruce belt); v, 1888, 337-344 (Winchendon, 

 AVorcester Co., Massachusetts, breeding; descr. nesting habits, nest and eggs, 

 etc.). — Breaver, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 96 (Bangor, Maine, breed- 



« Ten specimens. 



^ Since Vieillot's account relates only incidentally to the European species {R. 

 regtdus), both his description and plate being of the American species, it is a serious 

 question whether the name Regidus cristtdus should not l)e used for the latter, as has 

 been suggested by Newton (Yarrell's Hist. Brit. Birds, i, 1871, 457, footnote) and 

 claimed by Stejneger (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 30). 



