10. siuRus. 343 



dull white ; feathers below the eye and ear-coverts yellowish buff, 

 obscured by dusky tips of dull olive-brown, the upper margin of the 

 ear-coverts dark olive-brown, forming a streak ; cheeks white tinged 

 with yellow, separated from the throat by a moustachial streak of 

 dark olive-brown ; sides of neck dull white, obscured by duskj-- 

 brown tips to the feathers ; under surface of body white, washed 

 with pale ochreous buff on the fore neck and breast and deepening 

 into ochreous buff on the flanks and under tail-coverts, the latter 

 uniform ; sides of breast, flanks, and thighs browner ; fore neck and 

 chest distinctly spotted with triangular marks of black, becoming 

 duller and more longitudinal on the sides of the body and flanks ; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts pale brown, whiter near the edge 

 of the wing, the former slightly washed with olive-yeUow ; quills 

 dusky below, more ashy along the edge of the inner web : " bill 

 deep brown above, black at the tip, flesh-coloured beneath ; feet 

 and claws brown, tinged with blue ; iris deep brown " {AHclubon). 

 Total length 5'5 inches, culmen 0'6, wing 3-35, tail 2, tarsus 0"9. 



The winter plumage scarcely difters at all from that of summer, 

 though the concealed coronal mark is more obscured and has to be 

 searched for. The amount of striping on the breast varies greatly 

 both in the number and in the intensity of the black spots. 



Hab. Eastern United States, north to Massachusetts and Michigan, 

 west to Kansas, the Indian Territory, and Texas; breeds in its 

 United-States range at large ; abundant in many of the Southern 

 and Western States, rare towards the northern limits of its range 

 (Coues). AVinters throughout Central America from Mexico to 

 Panama (S. ^- G.). Jamaica ; Cuba ; Antigua. 



E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



U.S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 



Sclater Collection. 

 Gould Collection. 

 Cxould Collection. 

 Sclater Collection. 



3. Siurus naevius. 



Figuier brun de S. Domingue, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 513. pi. 28. fig. 5 



(1760). 

 Fauvette tachet(?e de la Louisiane, Dauhenf. PL Enl. vi. pi. 752. 



fig. 1 ; Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. IGl (1778). 

 Motaeilla naevia, Bodd. Tahl. PL EnL p. 47 (1783). 

 New York Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2. p. 426 (1783); Penn. 



Arctic Zi>oL ii. p. 409 (1785). 

 Spotted Yellow Warbler, var. a, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. 2, p. 483 



(1783). 

 Motacilla noveboracensis, G/n. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 958 (1788). 

 Motacilla tigrina, var. 8, Gm. Si/gt. Nat. i. p. 985 (1788). 

 Sylvia noveboracensis, LcdJi. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 518 (1790) ; J'icilL Ois. 



Amcr. Sept. ii. p. 'IQ, pi. 82 (1807). 

 Sylvia tigriua, var. b, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 537 (1790). 



