548 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female.— l^ength (skins), 118-140 (130); winjr, 67-75 (70.5); 

 tail, 51.4-59 (56.1); exposed culmen, 8.2-10.4 (1).2); tarsus, 18-19.6 

 (18.7); middle toe, 11.2-12.8 (12).' 



North America in general, chiefly east and north of Rock}' Moun- 

 tains; breeding- from mountains of western Massachusetts (Berkshire 

 Co.), northeastern New York (Adirondacks), northern Michigan (Macki- 

 nac Island), Manitoba, etc., to limit of tree-g-rowth (Labrador to west- 

 ern Alaska); wintering from United States (except extreme northern 

 portions) southward to West Indies (Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, 

 and Porto Rico), island of Old Providence (Caribbean Sea), and through 

 Mexico (l)oth coasts) and Central America to Isthmus of Panama; acci- 

 dental in Greenland (three records), eastern Siberia (Tschuktschi 

 Peninsula, May); 0(;casional in Bahamas. Said to breed in Jamaica! 



IMotacilla'] coronata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 333 (based on Golden- 

 cruinu'd Flycatcher, Muscicapa aiireo verticc, Edwards, Gleanings Nat. Hist. 

 187, pi. 298, fig. 1).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 974. 



Motacilla coronata Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 44. 



[^Sylvial coronata Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 538. — Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., 

 ii, 1807, 24, pis. 78, 79; Nonv. Diet, d' Hist. Nat., xi, 1817, 178; Ene. Meth., 

 ii, 1823, 426.— Wilson, Am. Orn., ii, 1810, 138, pi. 17, fig. 4; ii, 356, pi. 45, 

 fig. 3. — Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., x, 1817,636. — Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 192; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 77.— Lesson, Traite 

 d'Orn., 1831, 418.— Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1831, 2 (Alvarado 

 and Temascaltepec) ; see Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 57. — Nittall, Man. Orn. 

 U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 361.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 303, pi. 153.— 

 D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 60. — Weiz, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H., X, 1866,267 (Labrador). 



Sylincola coronata Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 216. — 

 Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 22.— Audubon, Synopsis, 1839,51; 

 Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 23, pi. 76. — GossE, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 155. — 

 Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, 38 (Jamaica and Cuba). — Jardine, 

 Contr. Orn., 1848, 82 (Bermudas, Sept. to Dec. 17). — Hurdis, Jardine's 



* Twenty-one specimens. 



Western specimens average slightly larger, but the difference is too inconstant to 

 justify separation, especially in the absence of any difference in color. Average 

 measurements are as follows: 



