DENDE(ECA COROXATA, YELLOW-RUMP WARBLER. 57 



iii, 1872, 124 (Eastern Kansas, rather common).— CouES, Key, 1872, 99. — Scott, 



Pr. Bost. Soc. 1872 (breeding in West Virginia).— Salv., P. Z. S. 1870, 180 



(Veragua). 

 Si/Ma rara, Wils., Am. Oru. iii, 1811, 119, pi. 27, fig. 2. ( 9 or yonng).— Bp., Svn. 1828, 



82.-NurT., i, 18.J2, 225.— Aud., Oru. Biog. i, 1832, 258, pi. 49. 

 Vermivora rara, Jaudine. 

 Sylvia azurea, Stkpii., Shaw's Gen. Zool. x, 1817, 653.— Bp., Am. Orn. ii, 1828, pL 27; 



Syn. 1828, 85.— Nutt., Man. i, 1832, 407.— Aud., Orn. Biog. i, 1832, 255, pis. 4o, 49. 

 Si/lv'ut hifasciata, Say, Long's Exp. Rocky Mountains, 1823, 170. 

 Sylvia popnlornm, Vikill., Enc. Met. ii, 1823, 449. 



Hah. — Eastern North America to the Lower Missouri ("Columbia River," Audubon). 

 North to Canada (to Nova Scotia, Audubon). Cuba (only West Indian recoi'd). South 

 in winter to Guati'niala, Panama, and New Granada (Bogota, ScL., P. Z. S. 1857, 18). 

 No Mexican quotations (hut "entering the United States from Mexico, early in April" 

 (Audubon). Not in New England 1 



It is (lifiQcult to trace out the distribution of the species ; its geograph- 

 ical record is confused, and many of the earlier citations have not been 

 verified of late. Tluis, Audubon says it iidiabits "the whole breadth of 

 our country," and that it was found on the Columbia by Mr. Townsend — 

 a statement not now generally credited. The same author's Nova Sco- 

 tian record has not lately been checked. There is some doubt that the 

 bird ever enters New England ; the various accounts seem traceable to 

 one source, which, Dr. Brewer writes me, has proven entirely mistaken. 

 Unequivocal evidence of its presence in Canada is given by Mr. Mcll- 

 wraith. It is certainly a rare species in the iMiddle States; Dr. Turn- 

 bull so gives it, and at the time Dr. Prentiss and I noticed the birds of 

 the District of Columbia, we had not seen it there, though 1 have in my 

 cabinet a specimen afterward taken by one of the local collectors. The 

 Mississippi Valley would ajjpear to be the principal United States resort. 

 j\Ir. liidgway says it is very abundant in IlUnois; Mr. Allen found it not 

 uncommon in tlie Lower Misseuri bottoms, and Dr. Woodhouse men- 

 tions its breeding in abui. dance in the Indian Territory. Eecurriiig 

 again to the perennial Audubon, we find him giving it as mimerous in 

 Louisiana, where he says he has seen tive or six in a single walk, in Au- 

 gust. He tiescribes the nidification as follows: "The nest is placed in 

 the forks of a low tree or bush, more irequently in a dogwood-tree. It 

 is partly pensile, projecting a little above the twigs to which it is at- 

 tached, and extending below them for n.early two inches. The fibres of 

 vines, and the stalks of rank herbaceous plants, together with slender 

 roots, comi)ose the outer part, being arranged in a ciritular numner. 

 The lining consists entirely of the dry fibres of the Spanish moss. Tlie 

 female lays four or five eggs, of a i)ure white color, with a few reddish 

 spots at the larger end." 



DENDli(ECx\ CORONATA, (Linn.) Gray. 



Yellow-ruinp Warbler. 



MotarilJa coronafa, Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 17()(), 333. 



Sylvia corniKtla, I.atu., Ind. Orn. ii, 1790, 538. — Vnciij.., Ois. Am. Sept. ii, 1807, 24, pis. 

 7H, 79.— WII.S.. Am. Orn. li, 1^10, 13-i. pi. 17, f. 4; iv, 121, pi. 45, f. 3.— Nitt., 

 Man. i, lKi2, 3()1.— Ari)., Orn. Biog. ii, ls:{4, 3(»3, pi. 1.53. 



Syh-icola roronata, Sw. iV Hicii., F. B. A. ii, 1831, 21C>.— Aid., B. Am. ii. 1S43. 23. j)!. 71;. — 

 W<)<)i)n..Sitgr. lici). 1853,71.— llov, Smiths. Rep. 18l!4, 437 (. Missouri ).—MA.\iil., 

 J. f. O. vi, 1858, 114. 



Dcndraca cnronnia, iiu\\.— \U\, B. N. A. 1858, 272.— Mn., Rev. 18i)5, 187.— C()(tks, Key, 

 1M72, 99, lig. 41 ; and of lat(! writt^rs generally.- Il.wn., K'rp. 1S()2, KiO (to above 

 Port IMernO.- Coop. A- Srck., N. H. Wiisli." Ter. 1^.59. b"'7 ( Wasliingtnn Tcrri- 

 toiy).- Coop., B. Cal. i, 1870, H9 M '.ilUbrniii. pn)l).iblv).— l>Ai.i, iV Bann., Tr. 

 Ciiic. Acad. H(i9, 278 (Yukon, bivcdin-)-— VlMMt., I'r. Host. Soc. ix. 1S{;-J, 1-J5 

 (Calais, Me., breeding). -Makcii, I'r. Phil. Acad. 18o3, 292(Januiica, breeding). — 



