BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 709 



WILSONIA MICROCEPHALA Ridgway. 

 SMALL-HEADED WARBLER. 



Olive-green above, yellowish beneath, the wing with two whitish 

 bands and inner webs of lateral rectrices partly white. 



Adult male (?). — "Upper parts dull olive-yellow; the wings dusky 

 brown, edged with lighter; the greater and lesser [i. e,, middle] coverts 

 tipped with white; the lower parts dirty white, stained with dull yellow, 

 particularly on the upper parts of the breast; the tail dusky brown, 

 the two exterior feathers marked like those of many others, with a 

 spot of white on the inner vanes; head remarkably small; bill broad 

 at the base, furnished with bristles, and notched near the tip; legs dark 

 })rown; feet yellowish; eye dark hazel."' Total length, 127; extent of 

 wings, 209.5. 



Pennsylvania and New Jersey; also, according to Audubon, Ken- 

 tucky. 



1 am unable to satisfactorily dispose of this hypothetical species 

 l\y reference to any other, the peculiar combination of characters 

 indicated in the original description, quoted al)ove, being shared by 

 no other bird to my knowledge." 



3fiiseicapa minuta (not of Gmelin) Wilson, Am. Orn., vi, 1812, 62, pi. 50, fig. 5 

 (New Jersey, etc.). — Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. 8ei. Phila., ii, 1824, 179. — 

 NuTTALL, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 296.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., v, 

 1839, 291, pi. 434, fig. 2; Synopsis, 1839,44; Birds Am.,oct. ed., i, 1840, 238, 

 pi. 67.— (?)Peai50Dy, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 296 (Massachusetts).— (?) Put- 

 nam, Proc. Essex Inst., i, 1856, 226. 



Si/lviamiiiut(i Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, LS24, 197. 



Wihdiiia iiiiimta Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 23. — Allen, Proc. Essex 

 Inst., iv, 1864, 83; Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 577.— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns., 

 iii, 1880, 174, 234.— Stbineger, Auk, i, 1884, 231. 



Set ujihiiga minuta Richardson, Rep. Brit. Assoc, for 1836 (1837), 172. — (?) Hoy, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1853, 309 (Wisconsin). 



{Setophagcq minuta Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 244, no. 3537. 



Myiodlodei^ minntusBAiRU, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 293; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 212; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 241.— Turnbull, Birds E. 

 Penn., 1869, 53 (Phila. ed., p. 42).— Baikd, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, i, 1874, 316, pi. 16, fig. 2.— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 

 1875, 440 (Wenham, Ma.ssachusetts). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, 

 no. 126.— Maynard, Birds E. N. Am., 1882, 521.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., X, 1885, 431, footnote. 



Myiodiodesf minulus Coves, Birds Col. Val., 1878, .326 (synonymy; crit. ). 



Museicapa or MijiodioHejf "■ m'muia'' Coues, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1868, 275. 



»S'[///i'o»iia] minuta Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 527. 



Sylvania pumilia {not S'l/lvia jnimi/ia Vieillot, 1807) Nuttall, Man. Orn. U.S. and 

 Can., 2d ed.,i, 1840, 334 (cites Sylvia pumilia Vieillot'' and Muaicapa minuta 

 Wilson). 



' Wilson's original description. 



'See Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 293; Coues, Birds Col. Val., 326. 



'^fSyhna pamilia Vieillot (Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 39, pi. 100) I am unable to 

 identify with any American bird; certainly it is not the same as Muscicapa minuta 

 Wilson. 



