482 BULLETIN 50, UKTTKD STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Youvg male in jird nutiunn. — Essentiall}' like the adult male, but 

 the bluish gra}' of upper parts more or less strong-l}' tinged with olive- 

 green, especially on head and neck; sides and flanks tinged with brown- 

 ish buffy; yellow of throat and breast duller, the darker jugular area 

 more or less obscured by j^ellowish tips or margins to the feathers; a 

 whitish supraloral mark. (Adult males in winter differ from spring 

 and sununer specimens mainly, if not wholly, in having a slight tinge 

 of olive-green to the bluish gray of head, neck, and rump and a slight 

 olivaceous tinge to sides and flanks.) 



Yonng female iv jirs.t aidmiin. — Difi'ering from the adult female in 

 the same characters which distinguish the young male in same plumage. 



Young ^ first plumage. — Above plain slate-gray, slightly tinged with 

 olive-green; middle and greater wing-coverts narrowly tipped with 

 white; chin and upper throat pale yellowish; lower throat, chest, sides, 

 and flanks plain light gray (intermediate between mouse gray and gray 

 no. 6); abdomen, anal region, and under tail-coverts white; remiges 

 and rectrices as in adults. 



More southern portions of Atlantic and eastern Gulf coast districts 

 of United States, breeding from Florida, Georgia, and Alabama (vicin- 

 ity of Mobile) at least to coast of Virginia (Cape Charles, Eastville, 

 Dismal Swamp, etc.), probably to Delaware and southern New Jersey; 

 occasional farther northward (District of Columbia and vicinity; Car- 

 lisle, Pennsylvania; Sing Sing and Shelter Island, New York; Cape 

 Cod, Massachusetts);^ also occasional in more southern portions of 

 the interior (Rockwood, Tennessee, April 24; Mount Carmel, Illinois, 

 April 19); apparently wintering mainly in Florida." 



[Porw.s] o?»er(m?iH.s LiNN^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 190 (Carolina; based on 

 Parus fringiUaris Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, 64, pi. 64); ed. 12, i, 1766, 

 341.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 1007.— Lath.\m, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 571. 



[^fotacilla'\ americana Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 960. 



ISyhial americana Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 520. 



Sylvia americana Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 83, part. — Audubon, 

 Orn. Biog., i, 1832, 78, part, pi. 15. 



Sylvicola americana Eichardson, Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. for 1836 (1837), 171. — 

 Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 59, part; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 57, part,pl. 91. 



Parula americana Bonaparte, Geog. and Coinp. List, 1838, 20, part. — Baird, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 238, part; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 

 168, i)art; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 169, part. — Coues, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. 

 H., xii, 1868, 108 (South Carolina) ; Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1871, 20 

 (Fort Macon, North Carolina); Check List, 1873, no. 58, part; 2d ed., 1882, 



'A considerable number of specimens from these northern localities I am quite 

 nna])le to distinjruisli from southern examples; in fact, if taken in Georgia or South 

 Carolina, they would be considered very typical, some of them extreme, examples 

 of the subspecies, as restricted. 



■''Extralimital specimens are so few in number and in such condition of plumage 

 that I am not able to make out satisfactorily the winter ranges of the three forms of 

 this species. 



