BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



545 



Sylvia pumUa (not of Wilson, 1811) Wilson, Am. Orn., v, 1812, 100, pi. 43, fig. 4 



(Pennsylvania; not of vol. iv, 1811, 17, pi. 28, = Compsothlypis americana.) — 



Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 197. 

 Sylvicola pusiU'i DEStiY, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1847, 38 (Jamaica; Cuba). 

 Sylvia leucoptera Wilson, "Index, and 2d ed. (Hall's ed.), ii, 390." (Cones.) 



[Substitute for aS". pusilla Wilson, preoccupied.] 

 Sylvia palustris Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., x,1817, 722 (substitute for>S'. pusilla 



Wilson). 

 Syhria macropos Vieillot, Enc. Meth., ii, 1823, 451 (substitute for *S'. pusilla 



Wilson). 

 M[;niotHta'] macropus Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 

 Sylvia sphagnosa Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 199 (substitute 



for S. pusilla Wilson); Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 85. — Nuttall, Man. Orn 



U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 406.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 279. 

 Vireo sphagnosa Jardine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., ii, 1832, 193. — Brewer, ed. 



Wilson's Am. Orn., 1840, 393. 

 Sylvicola pannosa Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 162 (Jamaica; = female); Illustr. 



Birds Jam., 1849, pi. 37. 

 3/[nio<i7to] pannosa Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 

 Dendnxca pannosa Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 71 (Jamaica). — 



Albrecht, Journ. fiirOrn., 1862, 193 (Jamaica). 



DENDROICA C^ERULESCENS CAIRNSI Coues. 



CAIRNS' WARBLER. 



Similar to D. c. c(Fridcscc/h'<, hut adult male darker above, especially 

 the pileum, which is not lighter ])lue than the Ixick, the latter usually 

 more or less spotted or clouded with black, sometimes chiefly black, 

 the pileum sometimes streaked with black; adult female darker and 

 duUei olive above and less j^ellowish beneath, with the olive of flanks 

 darker and more strongly contrasted with the pale olive-yellowish of 

 abdomen. 



Adnlf i/udd.— Length (skins), 107-122 (115.1); wing, 60.5-68 (65.5); 

 tail, 48.5-54.5 (51.6); exposed culmen, 8.5-9.5 (0.3); tarsus, 18-19.5 

 (18.8)." 



Adidt female.— Length (skins), 108-120 (111.6); wing, 58.5-63 

 (61.5); tail, 45.5-51 (49.3); exposed culmen, 9-9.5 (9.3); tarsus, 18-19.5 

 (18.8).*= 



^ Twenty-five specimens. 



^ Ten specimens. 



Average measurements of breeding males from mountains of Virginia (Mountain 

 Lake), Maryland (Garrett County), and Pennsylvania (Somerset, Mifflin, Clarion, 

 Fayette, Bedford, and Centre counties), respectively, are as follows: 



Localitv. 



Thirteen breeding males from Virginia. . . 



Five breeding males from Maryland 



Seven breeding males from Pennsylvania 



18.7 

 18.9 

 18.8 



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