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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



male; a rather indistinct superciliary streak of dull yellowish or whit- 

 ish; under parts dull whitish, usually more or less tint^ed with yellow, 

 especially on breast, (^hest, and sides of neck, the chest and sides more 

 or less distinctly streaked with dusky grayish or blackish; l)ill, etc., 

 as in adult male. 



Adidt female i)i mitumn and winter. — Similar to the female in 

 spring" or summer, but oliv^e of upper parts more or less tinoed with 

 gray anteriorly, pileum without black streaks or spots, paler super- 

 ciliary streak obsolete, and streaks on under parts much less distinct, 

 more grayish. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 107.9-119.4 (113.9); wing, 61-70.1 

 (66.3); tail, 44.9-49.5 (47.2); exposed culmen, 9.4-10.2 (9.8); tarsus, 

 16.3-18.8 (17.8); middle toe, 11.9-12.9 (12.3).' 



Adult female.— Ij^ngth (skins), 109.2-119.4 (113.3); wing, 61-65.8 

 (63.6); tail, 43.1-47.5 (45.7); exposed culmen, 9.4-10.4 (9.7); tarsus, 

 17.5-18.3 (17.8); middle toe, 11.2-12.4 (11.9).- 



Eastern North America, north to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, 

 southern shores of Hudson Bay (Moose Factor}', etc.), and Manitoba, 

 breeding southward to "northern New England;" during migration 

 southward through more southern United States east of the Great 

 Plains, wintering in the West Indies (Bahamas; Cuba; Jamaica; Haiti; 

 Porto Rico; St. Croix; Guadeloupe), Yucatan (one record only), and 

 Tobago. Resident in Jamaica, and said to breed on high mountains 

 of that island! 



\^Motaeilla'] tigr'ma Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 17S8, 985 (based on Spotted Ydlmr Fly- 

 catcher, MusdcajMi luted macuhtta, Edwards, Gleanings Nat. Hist., vi, 101, pi. 

 257, lower fig.). 



[^Sylmct] tigr'ma Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 537. 



Sylvia tigrina Vieili.ot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 34, pi. 44, fig. 2; Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 

 Nat., xi, 1817, 228; Enc. Meth., ii, 1823, 428.— Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., 

 X, 1817. 738. 



M[)iiotilta] tigrina Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 



\_MniotUta:] tigrimi Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 239, no. 3465. 



[Sijlricohil ligriiia (not of Richardson, 1837) Bonaparte, Gonsp. Av., i, 1850, 308. 



' Fifteen specimens. 



^ Six specimens. 



Specimens from opposite sides of the Alleghenies average, respectively, as follows: 



