268 CHARACTERS OF DENDRCECA CCERULEA 



Dcndroica coerulea, Henry, Pr. Phila. Acad. xi. 1850, 106.— Ferr. Pr. Ess. Inst. iii. 1862, 156.— 



Turnb. B. E. Pa. 1869, 25 ; Phila. eil. Ic—Hensh. Rep. Orn. Specs. 1874, 58 (Denver, Colo.). 

 Dendroeca ccerulca, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. T. vii. 1861, 322 (New Granndn).— ilfc/iwr. Pr. Ess. 



Innt. V. 1866,86 (Uamilton, C. \Y.).—Coues, Pr. Best. See. xii. 1868, 110.— Lowr. Ann. 



Lye. K Y. ix. 1869, 200.— Couc«, BN W. 1874, 56, ^22.—Jouy, Field and Forest, iii. n. 3, 



Sept. 1877, 51 (Washington, D.C.). 

 Sylria rara, WUs. iii. 1811, 119, pi. 27, f. %—Steph. Gen. Zool. x. 1817, 657.— F. Ency. M6th. 11. 



1823, 448.— Bp. Journ. Phila. Acad. iv. 1824, 197.— J5p. Ann. Lye. N. T. ii. 1826, 



m.—Nutt. Man. 1. 1832, 393.— Tlud. OB. i. 1832, 258, pi. 'id.— Brew. Journ. Boat. Soc. 



i. 1837, 436 (Massachusetts — wrong). 

 Pbyllopneustc rara, Boie, Isis, 1828, 321. 

 Fermivora rara, Jard. " cd. Wils. 1832". 

 Mniotilta para. Gray, G. of B. i. 1848, 196. 

 Sjlvia azuPca, Steph. Shaw's GZ. x. 1817, 653.— Bp. Am. Orn. ii. 1828, 37, pi. 11, f. 2.— Bp. 



Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 1826, B5.—Xutt. Man. i. 1832, 407.— Aud. OB. i. 1832, 255, pi. 48.— 



Towns. Journ. Phila. Acad. viii. 1839, 153 (Oregon ? !). 

 Hypotbimis azurea, Boie, isis, 1828, 318. 

 Sylvia bifasciata, Say, Long's Exp. R. Mts. i. 1823, 170. 

 Sylvia pupulorum, V. Ency. Meth. ii. 1823, 449, n. 104. (After "Wilson.) 

 Fauvette b6pylle, K Ency. M6th. ii. 1823, 448. 

 Fauvette des Pcupliers, F. Ency. M6th. iL 1823, 449. 

 Fauvette bleuatre, Le Moine, Ois. Canad. 1861, 192. 

 Cceruleai), CseruleaD, or Cerulean Warbler or Wood'Warblcr, Azure Warbler, Blue- 



green Warbler, White-throated Blue Warbler, Authors. 

 [Note. — Ccerulca and caerulea are not distinguished ; neither are coerulea and coerulea. — 

 Note that the "Caerulean Warbler " (ATotacilla or Sylvia c.) of authors before Wilson is 

 Polioptila, not Dendroeca. — See p. 101.] 



Hab. — Eastera North America to the Rocky Mountains in the latitude of 

 Colorado, and to the Lower Missouri. Rare in the Atlantic States; authen- 

 tic as a hird of New England (Connecticut, Linsley, Am. Journ. Sci. sliv. 

 1843, — ; Purdie, Merriam, II. ss. cc). Canada West {Mcllivraith). Cuba 

 (GHndlach); no other West Indian record. In winter, Central and portions 

 of South America. No Mexican record. 



Ch. sp. — $ Coerulea, dorso medio nigro striata; infra alba, 

 pectore lateribusque fusco-coeruleo striatis, strigd superciliari alba, 

 alls albo bifasciatis, rectricibus lateralibus albo notatis. 9 vires- 

 cens, infra sordide flavo-albida, alls cauddque sicut in mare. 



$, adult: Entire upper parts sky-blue, the middle of the back streaked 

 with black ; the crown usually richer and also with dark markings. Below 

 pure white, streaked across the breast and along the sides with dusky blue — 

 the breast-streaka inclining to form a short bar, sometimes interrupted in 

 the middle. Auriculars dusky ; edges of eyelids and superciliary line white. 

 Wings blackish, much edged esternallj" with the color of tlie back, the inner 

 webs of all the quills, the outer webs of the inner secondaries, and two broad 

 ba.rs across the tips of the greater and median coverts, white. Tail black, 

 with ninch exterior edging of the color of the back, all the feathers, except 

 the middle pair, with small, white, subterminal epots on the inner webs. 

 Length, 4-4^ ; wing, '2j ; tail, 2 or less. 



$, adult: Quito dill'erent. Upper parts dull greenish, with more or less 

 grayisb-blue shade, the greenish brightest and purest on the crown. Eye- 

 lids, line over eye, and entire under parts whitish, more or less strongly over- 

 cast with dull greenish-yellow. Wings and tail dusky, the exterior edgings 

 of the color of the back; the bars, spots, and interior edgings white, as in 



