BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 719 



Virginia, breeding in spruce belt). — Fleming, Auk, xviii, 1901, 44 (Mus- 



koka, etc., n. w. Ontario, common summer resid.). 

 Sylvia parlalina Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 179 (cites 



M. canadensis Wilson); Ann.- Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 79. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. 



U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 372. 

 Si/lvicola pardalina Bonaparte, Geog. and Conip. List, 1838, 22. — Brewer, Proc. 



Bost. Soc. N. H., vi, 1856, 5 (descr. nest and eggs). 

 [Ml/iodioctes} j)arda/ina Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 315. 

 Mijodiodes j)<'ivdali)ia Pratten, Trans. Ills. Agric. Soc, 1855, 601. 

 Mitscicapa bnnaparlii Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 27, pi. 5 (St. Francisville, 



Louisiana, Aug. 13;=young in autumn). 

 Selophaga bonaparlii Swainson and RiCHAunsoN, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 225, 



pi. 47. 

 ISelophaga'] bonapartii Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 244, no. 3538. 

 Wilsonia bonapartii Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 23. — STE.iNE(iER, 



Auk, i, 1884, 231. 

 Myiodioctes bonapartii Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 49; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 



17, pi. 73.— Baird, Rep. Pacitic R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 295; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 



1859, no. 215. 

 Sylvania bonapartii Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 2d ed., i, 1840, 332. 

 Setophaga nigro-cincta Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., iv, Oct., 1843, 292 (Colombia); 



1844, 79. 

 Myiodioctes cxrulescens (lai)sus iov canadensis) Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



no. 4, 1876, 16 (Barrio, Oaxaca; Guichicovi, Chiapas). 



Genus CARDELLINA DuiBus. 



CardellinaDvBva, Esquis. Orn., 1850, pi. 25. (Ty})e, C. amicla \)y\B\\ii,=Mnsricapa 

 vubrifrons Giraud. ) 



Medium-sized "fly-catching'' Mniotiltidse with the bill .short and 

 .stout (ba.sal depth nearly equal to l)asal width, exposed culmen not 

 longer than middle toe without claw), the culmen decidedly curved; 

 rictal bristles reaching" but little beyond nostrils; wing-tip equal to 

 tarsus; tail even; rump and under parts of bod}' white, back gray, fore- 

 head and throat red, crown and auricular region black. 



Bill not more than half as long as head, deeper than ])road at anterior 

 margin of nostrils, nearly as deep as broad at ])ase; cuhnen decidedly 

 curved; maxillary tomium with subterminal notch indistinct; gon^^s 

 faintly convex. Nostril rather large, obliquely oval, occupying al)out 

 lower anterior half of nasal fossie, largel}^ concealed by latero-frontal 

 feathering. Rictal bristles moderately developed, the longest reach- 

 ing ])ut little ])e3"ond nostrils, when directed foiward. Wing long, 

 rather pointed (seventh primary longest, eighth and sixth but little 

 shorter, the ninth intermediate between sixth and fifth); wing-tip long, 

 equal to tarsus. Tail decidedly shorter than wing Init longer than dis- 

 tance from bend of wing to tip of secondaries, even, the rectrices broad 

 and rounded at tips. Tarsus about one-fourth as long as wing or 

 slightl}^ more, its scutella indistinct or obsolete on outer side; middle 

 toe, with claw, much shorter than tarsus; basal phalanx of middle toe 

 united for nearl}' its entire length to outer toe, for about half its 

 length to inner toe. 



