410 MNIOTILTrDJE. 



20. SETOPHAGA. „ 



Type. 



Setophaga, Sivaim. Zool. Jouni. iii. p. 3G0 (1827) .... S. ruticilla. 



Svlvania, Nuttall, Man. Om. i. p. 291 (1832) S. ruticilla. 



Euthlypis, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 18 (1850) S. lachrymosa. 



Myioboriis, Baird, Review Amer. B. p. 237 (I860) .... S. verticalis. 

 Of. Salmn, Ibis, 1878, pp. 302-321. 



Bill of Setophaga ruticilla. 



Range. The whole of Northern and Central America, and the 

 Andes of South America as far as Bolivia. Colombia and Guiana. 

 Absent in the valley of the Amazons, H.E. Brazil, and the low-lying 

 forest-country of South America. {Of. Salviu & Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 177.) 



Key to the Species *. 



a. With red in the taU and on the wing ruticilla, p. 411. 



h. With white in the tail. 

 a'. Breast crimson. 



a". Head black like the back ; wing-coyerts 

 white, forming a conspicuovis wing- 

 natch : two outer tail-feathers almost , . . . , ^ 

 " , • 1 1 -i. \ picta, p. 41o. 



entirely white {-^ , '^ 1 ^i^ 



b". Crown with a chestnut patch; no white ]!/uatenud^, ^x 4:1^. 

 on wing-coverts ; three outer tail- . . . . , „ 



feathers with a white spot at the end \;Z^;^^^l?9. 

 b'. Breast yellow or orange. '•' ' ^ 



c". Two outer tail-feathers more or less 

 white, with a blackish inner web. 

 a'". Throat slaty or blackish ; a chestnut 

 patch on the head. 

 a*. Forehead and sides of crown dark 



slaty grey verticalis, p. 420. 



6*. Forehead and sides of crown black . aiirantiaca, p. 421. 

 b'". Throat yellow ; a chestnut patch on 

 the head ; back slaty grey. 

 e*. Chestnut crown surrounded by black, 

 which forms a frontal band. 

 «'. Base of forehead and feathers 



round eye white albifi-ons, p. 422. 



* Setophaga multicolor. 



Setophaga multicolor, Bp. Cortsp. i. p. 312 (1850) ; Baird, Review Amer. B . 

 p. 257 (1865) ; Salv. Ibis, 1878, p. 321. 



Hab. Mexico. 



There seems to be little doubt that Mr. Salvin's surmise with regard to this 

 species is correct, and that it is really an Australian bird, Fetrceca multicolor 

 (Cat. B. iv. p. 168). 



