BIRDS OP NORTfl AND MTDDI.E AMKRTCA. 



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Adult 7nale.—I^engt\i (skins), 127-142 (1.33); wing, 71-80.5 (74.3); 

 tail, 55-61.5 (59.3); exposed ciilmen, 11.5-13 (12.6); tarsus, 14.5-16 

 (15.5); middle toe, 8-10 (8.8)." 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 121-134 (129); wing, 67.5-75.5 

 (70.2); tail, 54-61 (56.3); exposed culmen, 11-12.5 (12.2); tarsus, 

 14..5-15.5 (14.8); middle toe, 8-9 (8.6).^ 



Eastern United States, north to Long Island (Oyster Bay, Wood- 

 haven, Northport, etc.), lower Hudson Valley (Riverdale), central New 

 York (Syracuse), southern Ontario, southern Michigan (Wayne 

 County), etc., casually to Massachusetts (Hyde Park); west to 

 middle portion of Great Plains, from Nebraska (Sioux County; 

 casual?) to Texas; breeding southward to northern Florida (Gaines- 

 ville; Wacissa River) and thence through Gulf States to Texas (San 

 Antonio; Gainesville; Harris County; Fort Clark, May 15); south- 

 ward in winter to the Bahamas (Cay Lobos) and Cuba and through 

 eastern Mexico (Alta Mira, Tamaulipas; Merida, Yucatan), Honduras 

 (Ruatan Island), Nicaragua (Rio Escondldo), Costa Rica (San Jose), 

 Panama, Colombia (Bonda, Onaca, and Valparaiso, Santa Marta) to 

 western Ecuador (Esmeraldas ; Chimbo; Cachavi). 



Muscicapa querula (not of Vieillot, 1807) Wilson, Am. Orn., ii, 1810, 77, pi. 13, 



fig. 3. 

 (?) Muscicapa acadica (not of Gmelin) Bonaparte, Synopsis Birds U. S., 1828, 



68.— (?) Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 256; v, 1839, 429, pi. 144; Synopsis, 



1839, 42; Birds Am., oct. ed., i, 1840, 221, pi. 62. 

 Tyrannula acadica Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 24. — Woodhot-se, 



Rep. Sitgreaves' Exp. Zufii and Colorado R., 1853, 74 (Indian Territory; 



Texas; "New Mexico"). 

 T[yranrmla] acadica Hartlaub, Syst. Verz., 1844, 50. 

 [Tyranmila] acadica Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 189. 

 (?) Mtiscipeta acadica D'Orbigny, Voy. Amer. Merid., iv, Ois., .1839, 318 (Santo 



Corazon de Chiquitos, Bolivia). 

 M[yiobius] acadicus Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1847, 249. 

 M[yiarchus] acadicus Cabanis, Wiegmann's Archiv. fiir Naturg., 1847, i, 248. 



o Twenty-four specimens. 

 b Twelve specimens. 



