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(?) Sylvia nisseicauda YiEiLLOT, Oh. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 17, pi. 71 (Pennsylvania; 



coll. Vieillot); Nouv. Diet. d'Hint. Nat., xi, 1817, 266. —Stephens, Shaw's 



Gen. Zool., x, 1817, 675. 

 (?) Sylvia russicauda Vieillott, Enc. M^th., ii, 1823, 476. 

 (?) [Setophaga] russeicauda Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 243, no. 3517. 

 Motacilla trlcolora Muller Syst. Nat. Suppl., 1776, 175 (based on Figuiernoir el 



jaune de Cayenne Daubenton, PL Enl., 391, fig. 2; adult male). 

 [Motacilla^ mnliicolor Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1788, 972 (Cayenne; based on 



Figuier iioir Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., v., 314; Figuier noir et jaune Daubenton, 



PI. Enl., pi. 391, %. 2; Ruferm and hhtck Warhler Latham, Synop. Birds, ii, 



pt. 2, 493). 



SETOPHAGA PICTA PICTA (Swainson). 

 PAINTED REDSTART. 



Adults {sexes alihe).^ — Head, neck, upper chest, sides, back, scapulars, 

 lesser wing-covei-ts, ruuip, and upper tail-coverts uniform deep black, 

 with a faint bluish gloss; wings and tail black, the former relieved by 

 a large white patch involving the middle and greater coverts and edges 

 of innermost secondaries (tertials), the latter with three outermost 

 rectrices extensively white terminally, this white occupying much 

 the greater part of the outermost rectrix; lower chest, breast, and 

 abdomen rich vermilion or poppy red, rarely more orange-red; under 

 tail-coverts black or blackish, broadly tipped with white; axillars and 

 under wing-coverts mostly white; bill, legs, and feet, black; iris brown. 



Young^ first jAumage.- — Above plain sooty })lack, the wings and tail 

 as in adults, but the white wing-patch tinged with bull'; beneath sooty 

 grayish, passing into dull whitish on center of abdomen, the breast 

 spotted or broadly streaked with sooty blackish. 



Adult y/;f//(^.— Length (skins), 123-128 (124.7); wing, 68-75 (71.9); 

 tail, 61-68 (63.3); exposed culmen, 8-9 (8.6); tarsus, 16-17 (16.6).' 



Adult /«//r/^>.— Length (skins), 125-135 (130.8); wing, 67-70 (68.7); 

 tail, 60-64.5 (62.4); exposed culmen, 8.5-9 X^.'d); tarsus, 16-17 (16.3).' 



Higher mountains of central and southern Arizona (Mogollon, Gra- 

 ham, Cbiricahua, Santa Rita, Santa Catalina, and Huachuca ranges, 

 etc.,) and New Mexico (Grant County), and southward over higher 

 districts of Mexico to States of Vera Cruz, Hidalgo, and Oaxaca (La 

 Parada; Cinco Senores). 



Setophaga pida Swainson, Zool. Illustr., 2d ser., i, 1829, pi. 3 (Real del IVIonte, 

 Hidalgc, Mexico); Anim. in ^Menair., 1838, 293. — Kaup, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1851, 50.— Baird, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 329 

 ("Texas"); Rep. Pacific R.R.Surv.,ix, 1858, 298; ed. 1860 (Birds N.Am.), 

 pi. 77, fig. 2; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 218; Rep. U. S. and 3Iex. Bound. 

 Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 11 (Boquillo, Nuevo Leon); Review Am. Birds, 1865, 

 256, part (Boquillo, Nuevo Leon; Sierra Madre, near Mazatlan). — Sclater, 



* I can not find that there is even an average difference in the coloration of the sexes 

 of this species. 

 ^Ten specimens. ' Five specimens. 



