418 MNIOTILTID^. 



3. Setophaga miniata. 



Setophaga miniata, Swains. I'hil. May. new ser. i. p. 368 (1827) ; id. 



An. in Mcnaq. p. 293 (.1837) ; aray, Gen.B. i. p. 265 (1846) ; Sd. 



I\ Z. S. 1856, p. 292, 1858, p. 299 ; Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 299 



(1858), pi. 58. fig-. 1 (1860); Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 363, 374; 



id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 37 (1862) ; Baird, Review Amer. B. p. 259 



(1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 240, no. 3524 (1869) ; Sumichr. 



Mem. Bost. Soc. N. IT. i. p. 546 (1869); Scl. ^- Salv. Nomend. Av. 



Neotr. p. 10 (1873, pt.) ; Baird, Breiver, ^- Ridf/to. Hist. N. Amer. 



B. p. 322 (1874) ; Lairr. Mem. Bost. Sue. N. H. ii. p. 270 (1874); 



id. Btdl. U.S. Kat. Mns. no. 4, p. 16 (1876) ; Salv. Ibis, 1878, 



p. 308 (pt.) ; id. ^- Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 181 



(1881, pt.); Ridffw. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 19 (1881). 

 Muscicapa laivata, Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. VUg. p. 2(1830); Cah. 



J.f. O. 1863, p. 58. 

 Muscicapa vuluerata, Wagler, Isis, 1831, p. 529 ; Kaup, P. Z. S. 



1851, p. 50. 

 Setophaga castanea, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 42. 

 Muscicapa derhami, Giratid, B. Texas, pi. 3. fig. 2 (1841) ; Scl. 



P. Z. S. 1855, p. 65. 

 Setophaga vubierata, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 265 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 313 (1850). 

 Adult. General colour above dark slaty grej- ; lesser wing-coverts 

 like the back ; median and greater coverts blackish, edged with 

 slaty grey like the back ; bastard- wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 blackish, narrowly edged with slaty grey ; upper tail-coverts like 

 the back ; tail-feathers black, the three outer ones with a broad 

 white tip, increasing in extent towards the outermost, which has a 

 white margin to the outer web for half its length ; on the top of 

 the crown a patch of deep chestnut ; nape, sides of crown, and sides 

 of neck dark slaty grey like the back ; a broad frontal band of 

 blackish, the feathers edged with slaty grey, the lores, cheeks, and 

 ear-coverts being of the same colour ; throat black, with a slight 

 wash of slaty grey, the lower throat being entirely black ; remainder 

 of under surface from the fore neck downwards crimson, the sides 

 of the breast and flanks being slaty gi'ey, the latter slightly inter- 

 mixed with blackish ; thighs ashy grey externally, white on inner 

 aspect ; under tail-coverts white, with a slight rosy tinge ; axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts slaty grey, edged with white, which is 

 slightl)- tinged with rosy ; quills dusky below, ashy along the edge 

 of the inner web. Total length 5-4 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-5, 

 tail 2-6, tarsus 0-7. 



Young. General colour above sooty black, the wing-coverts like 

 the back, edged Avith rusty brown at the tips ; quills blackish, 

 washed with slaty grey on the edges ; tail-feathers black ; head a 

 little more dusky than the back ; sides of face and throat dull ashy, 

 washed with brown on the chin ; lower throat and sides of body 

 dark chocolate-brown, the abdominal feathers paler and more chest- 

 nut and with whitish bases ; ixuder tail-coverts pale fulvous. 



Obs. At present I have never seen any orange-scarlet birds from 

 Mexico, all the specimens in the British Museum and in the Salvin- 

 and-Godman collection tiaving bright crimson breasts. The Mexican 



