450 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



(59.9); tail, 44.2-48 (45.5); exposed culmen, 10.7-11.4 (10.9); tarsus, 

 17.5-18.3 (17.8).' 



Eastern United States north regularly to Massachusetts, New York, 

 southwestern Ontario (Hamilton), northern Michigan (Mackinaclsland), 

 southern Minnesota, etc., casually (?) to Manitoba (near Winnipeg); 

 breeding southward to northern New Jersey, Pennsylvania, northern 

 Indiana, northern and central Illinois (south to Richland County ? ) etc., 

 and southward along Allegheny Mountains to South Carolina (Pickens 

 County, 2,500 feet and upward), and eastern Tennessee (Sawyers 

 Springs); south in winter to Cuba and through eastern Mexico and 

 Central America to Colombia. 



[Motacilla^ chrysoptera Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 333 (based on Tlic 

 Golden-vnnged Fli/caicher, Musciaqxi cilis mirrux Edwards, Gleanings Nat. 

 Hist., ii, 189, pi. 299).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 971. 



[Sylrki'] chrysoptera IjATB \M, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 541. 



Sylria chrysoptera Vieillot, Ois. Am., Sept., ii, 37, pi. 97; Enc. M^th., ii, 1823, 

 438.— Wilson, Am. Orn., ii, 1810, 113, pi. 15, fig. 5 (fig. "6" in t<?xt).— 

 Bonaparte, Am. Orn., i, 1825, 12, pi. 1, fig. 3. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. 

 and Can., i, 1832, 411.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 154, pi. 414. 



Vermivora chrysoptera^ Jardine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., i, 1832, 259. — Bonaparte, 

 Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 21. 



Sylricola chrysoptera Richardson, 'Rep. Brit. Assor., 1S3(> (1837), 171. 



Helinaia, chrysoptera Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 67; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 

 91, pi. 107.— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307 (Cuba). 



3I[niotilta] chrysoptera Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 



[ifniotiltal chrysoptera Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 239, no. 34.59. 



[Helmitheros] chrysoptera Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 315. 



Helmitheros chrysoptera Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, 143 (Bogota, 

 Colombia). 



H\_elmmiho]>}iaga] chrysoptera Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 20, footnote. 



Nelminthophaga chrysoptera Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 255; Cat. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1859, no. 181; Review Am. Birds, 1864, 175.— Henry, Proc. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 106 (New Mexico).— Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 

 .397 (Choctum, Guatemala).— Lawrence, .\nn. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1861, 293 

 (Lion Hill, Isth. Panama); viii, 1866, 284 (near New York City); ix, 1868, 

 94 (Barranca, Costa Rica). — Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 326 (Cuba); 



^ Three specimens. 



Specimens from opposite sides of AUeglieiiy Mountains average, respectively, as 

 follows : 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Five adult mak'.s from Mai<sachusetts to Di.slrii't of Columbia 

 Four adult males from Mississippi Valley ." 



FE.MALES. 



One adult female from Massachusetts 



Two adult females from Indiana 



Tarsus. 



17.8 

 17 



18.3 

 17.5 



