546 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Breeding in mountain districts of Pennsylvania' and southward 

 along higher Alleghenies to the Cowee and Black mountains in west- 

 ern North Carolina; Cumlierland Island, Georgia, during migration 

 (one specimen, April l>),and Cuba in winter (Matanzas, one specimen, 

 February 14, 1900). 



Dendroica arrulescem (not Motarilln arrulescens Gmelin) Brewster, Auk. iii, 1886, 

 174 (Cowee Mts. and Black Mts., w. North Carolina, breeding at 3,200 to 4,500 

 ft.). — LooMis, Auk, X, 1893, 154 (Chester Co., South Carolina; notice of 

 specimens with black on back and crown). — Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila , 1891, 437 (Luzerne Co., Pennsylvania, breeding); Auk, xi, 1894, 182 

 (Pocono Mts., Pennsylvania, breeding). — Todd, Auk, x, 189:5, 40, 45 (Indi- 

 ana and Clearfield counties, Pennsylvania, l)reeding). — Baii.v, Auk, xiii, 

 1896, 295 (n. Elk Co., Pennsylvania, breeding) .—Rive.s, Auk, xv, 1898, 136 

 (West Virginia, l)reeding in spruce belt). 



Dendrcjeca cceridescens cairnsl Coues, Papers World's Congress ()rn., 1896, 138, 

 footnote {nomen miduni!). 



JJendroica aerulescens cairrm Coues, Auk, xiv, Jan., 1897, 9(5 (mountains of w. 

 North Carolina; coll. W. Brewster; here first characterized). — American 

 Ornithologists' Union Committee, .\uk, xiv, 1897, 123. — Bangs, Auk, xv, 

 1898, 192 (Cumberland I., (leorgia, 1 spec, Apr. 9; crit.). 



DENDROICA CORONATA (Linnaeus). 

 MYRTLE WARBLER. 



Afhdt male hi x})i'in(i and xiiminci'. Al)<)V(' bluish slate-gray, streaked 

 (except sometimes on hindneck) with bhick, the streaks broadest on 

 back and scapulars;- crown with a large, partly concealed, elongated 

 patch of bright lemon yellow, the lower rump with a triangular patch 

 of paler 3'ellow; wings l)lack with gray edgings, the middle and greater 

 coverts rather broadly tipped with white, producing two distinct l)ands; 

 upper tail-cov^erts black margined with slate-gray; tail black with gray* 

 edgings, the three outermost rectrices with a large subterminal patch 

 of white on inner web, decreasing in size from the outermost to the 



^ I am unable to define with any degree of accuracy the respective l')reeding ranges 

 of this form and of J), c. acndescens in Pennsylvania. Among a large series of spec- 

 imens obtained during the breeding season, belonging to the collection of the Biolog- 

 ical Survey, are some which I can not distinguish from typical D. c. cairrtfti (some of 

 them apparently extreme examples, even, of that form) from Cambria, Clarion, Elk, 

 Fayette, Forest, Franklin, Indiana, McKean, Somerset, and Westmoreland counties, 

 four of these counties, namely, Cambria, Clarion, Fayette, and Somerset, being repre- 

 sented by specimens which I am unable to distinguish from typical D. c. avridescens. 

 Breeding specimens from Garrett County, Maryland, vary in much the same Avay. 

 On the whole, the form is not a very satisfactory one, one of the two characters on 

 which it was based (smaller size) failing altogether {D. c. mirusi averaging slightly 

 larger, in fact, than D. c. cn'ridescenni) , and the other only partially so, since many 

 specimens of T>. c cairnHi have little if any black on the back, while many of D. c. 

 cscridescens have quite as much as the average amount sliown in D. c. cainisi. 



