320 MNIOTILTID^. 



/, »i. c? $ ad. sk. Ilvde Park, Illinois, May {H. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



K. Conle). [P.]. 



n. Jiiv. sk. Ilvile Piirk, Illinois, Sept. U.S. Nat. Museum 



(//. K. Coale). [P.]. 



o. c5' ad. sk. Cambridge, Mass., April 12 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(H. M. Spelman). [P.]. 



}}. S ad. sk. Indiana, April {E. Ridgway). U.S. Nat. Museum 



q. Juv. ; /•. 2 jiv. Jamaica {Osburn). Sclater Collection. 



sk. 



28. Dendroeca castanea. 



Sylvia castanea, Wilson, Amer. Orn. ii. p. 97, pi. 14. tig. 4 (1810); 



Auduh. B. Amer. pi. 69; id. Orn. Biogr. i. p. 358 (1832). 

 Sylvia autumualis, Wilson, Amer. Orn. iii. p. 65, pi. 23. fig-. 3 (1811) ; 



Audub. B. Amer. pi. 88; id. Orn. Biogr. i. p. 449 (1832). 

 Sj'lvicola castanea, Richards. Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1836-37, p. 172 ; Bj), 



Comp. List B. Ei&. ^ N. Amer. p. 22 (1838) ; Audub. Sgn. p. 53 



(1839) ; id. B. Amer. ii. p. 34, pi. 80 (1841) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 308 



(1850). 

 Mniotilta castanea, Grag, Gen. B. i. p. 196 (1848) ; id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 241, no. 3483 (1869). 

 Rliimamphus castaneiis. Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 19 (1850). 

 Dendroica castanea, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 276 (1858) ; Scl. S)- Salv. 



Ibis, 1859, p. 11 ; Cass. Froc. Philad. Acad. xii. p. 193 (1860) ; 



Baird, Rev. Amer. B. p. 189 (1805) ; Baird, Brewer, Sc Ridgw. 



Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. 251, pi. 13. figs. 4, 5 (1874). 

 Deudrceca castanea. Later. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 322 (1861) ; Scl, 



Cat. Amer. B. p. 31 (1862) ; Scl. ^ Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 347 ; 



Sundev. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. 1869, p. 614 ; Wyatt, 



Ibis, 1871, p. 322 ; Brewer, Ibis, 1872, p. 334 ; Coues, Key iV. 



Amer. B. p. 101 (1872) ; Scl. S)- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 9 



(1873) ; id. B. N.- West, p. 61 (1874) ; Lawr. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



no. 4, p. 15 (1876) ; Coties, B. Color. Vail. p. 243 (1878) ; Salv. ^• 



Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 132 (1881) ; Ridgtv. Bull. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 17 (1881) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 



2ud ed. p. 304 (1884). 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. General colour above ochreous 

 brown, distinctly streaked with black centres to the feathers : the 

 scapulars more ashy grey, similarly streaked with black: lower 

 back and rump ashy grey, not streaked ; the upper tail-coverts 

 ashy grey, with black centres to the feathers ; lesser wing-coverts 

 ashy grey, mottled with black bars ; median and greater wing- 

 coverts black, edged with ashy grey and broadly tipped with white, 

 forming a double wing-bar ; bastard-wing black, edged with white ; 

 primary-coverts and quiUs black, edged with ashy grey, the secon- 

 daries with olive, the first primary with hoary whitish, the inner 

 secondaries broadly edged with ashy grey ; tail-feathers blackish, 

 edged with ashy grey, and fringed with white along the margin of 

 the inner web, the two outer feathers with a large white spot near 

 the end of the inner web ; crown of head deep chestnut, the nape 

 and hind neck clear ochreous, streaked with black ; forehead and 

 sides of crown black ; lores, sides of face, cheeks, and ear-coverts 

 black, slightly washed with ashj^ grey ; sides of neck clear ochre- 

 ous, forming a conspicuous patch ; chin blackish ; throat dark chest- 



