SYNONYMY OF DENDRCECA AUDUBONI 271 



Aiidubon'is Warlbler 



Dendroeca andnboni 



SylvJa audnboni, Towns. Joam. Phila. Acad. vii. 1837, 191 (Columbia Kiver) ; viii. 1839, 153. 

 SylflCOla audubonl, Bp. CGL. 1838, 21.—Aud. Syn. 1839, 52.— iV««. Man. i. 2d ed. 1840, 



414.— Gamb. Pr. Phila. Acad. iii. 1846, 155.— Gam6. Journ. Phila. Acad. i. 1847, 37.— 



Bp. CA. i. 1850, 307. 

 Mniotllta auduboni, Gray, G.ofB.i. 1848,196. 

 Dendroica auduboni, Sd. PZS. 1858, 295, 298 (Oaxaca).— Xan«. Pr. Phila. Acad. xi. 1859. 



101.— Hold. <£■ Aiken, Pr. Boat. Soc. xv. 1872, 197.— B. B. d B. NAB. i. 1874, 229, pi. 13, 



f. l.—Hensh. List B. Ariz. 1875, 156.—3ensh. Zool. Expl. W. 100 Merid. 1876, 174. 

 Dendroeca auduboni, Sd. PZS. i860, 250 (Orizaba).- «. d- S. Ib's, ii. i860, 273 (Guatemala).— 



Scl. PZS. 1864, 172 (City of Mexico).— Oowes, Ibis, 2d ser. i. 1865, 163 (Arizona).— Comcs, 



Pr. Phila. Acad. 1868, 83 (Arizona).— Brown, Ibis, 2d ser. iv. 1868, 420 (Vancouver).— 



Sund. Oefv. K Vet.-Akad. Forh. iii. 1809, 613.— Trippe apud Coues, BN W. 1874, 232.— 



Nels. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1875, 357.— Frazar, Bull. Nutt. Club, IL 1877, 27 (Cambridge 



Mass. !). 

 Sylvia auduboni), Aud. OB. v. 1839, 52, pi. 395. 



Sylvlcola audubonii, Aud. BA. ii. 1841, 26, pi. Ti.—Woodh. Sitgr. Rep. Zuni, 1853, 71. 

 Dendroica audubonii, .Bd BN A. 1858,273.— iJd. U.S. Mes. B. Surv. ii. pt. ii. 1859, Birds, 



10.— Kenn. PRRR. x. 1859, 24.— ffeerm. ibid. 39.— Coop. <£■ Suck. NHWT. i. 1860, 181.— 



Hayd. Tr. Amer. Philos. Soc. xii. 1862, 160.— .Bd. Rev. AB. i. 1865, 188.— Coop. Am. 



Nat. iii. 1869, 33.— Sfei). U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr, for 1870, 1871, 463.—Merr. U. S. Geol. 



Surv. Terr, for 1872, 1873, 675, 713. 

 Dendroeca andubonii, Cortes, Pr. Phila. Acad. xv. 1866, 69.— Coop. B. Cal. i. 1870, 88, fig.— 



Coues, Key, 1872, 100,— Cowes, BNW. 1874, 53.— Coop. Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 16.— Farr. 



<£ Hens\'Re-p. Orn. Specs. 1874, 10.— Hensh ibid. 41, 58, 75, 102.— Nels. Pr. Bost. Soc, 



xvii. 1875, 343. 

 Dendroica audubonls, Bd. Ives's Rep. Colo. R. pt. vi. 1861, 5. 



Dendroica coronata var. auduboni [!], Bidgw. Bull. Ess. Inst. v. 1873, 180 (Colorado). 

 Audubon's Warbler, Western Yellow-rump, Authors. 



Hab. — From the easternmost bo.ses and outlying foot-hills of the Rocky 

 Mountains to the Pacific, United States and British Columbia ; probably also 

 to Alaska. South in winter through Mexico to Guatemala. Accidental in 

 Massachusetts. 



Ch. sp. — (? Gceruleo-cinerea, dorsonigro striato ; vertice medio, 

 uropygio, guld et lateribus pectoris, flavis; pectore nigro, ah- 

 domine albo, lateribus nigro-striatis ; $ brunneo-cinerea, pectore 

 nigro maculato. 



$ , adult, in summer : Upper parts clear bluish-ash, streaked with black. 

 A central longitudinal spot on the crown, the rump, throat, and a patch on 

 each side of the breast, rich yellow. Sides of the head little darker than the 

 upper parts ; eyelids narrowly white, but no decided superciliary white 

 stripe. The ash of the upper parts extending far around the sides of the 

 neck. Jugulum and breast in high plumage pure black, though usually 

 mixed with some grayish skirting of the feathers, or invaded by white from 

 behind, or even touched with yellow here and there. Belly and under tail- 

 coverts white, the sides streaked with black. Wings blackish, with gray or 

 white edging, especially on the inner quills ; the median wing-coverts tipped, 

 the greater ones edged and tipped, with white, forming a great white blotch. 

 Tail like the wings, the outer webs narrowly edged with gray or white, tho 



