436 MNIOTILTID^, 



round the eye also yellow ; ear-coverts olive washed with yellow ; 

 cheeks aud feathers below the eye, throat, and entire under sur- 

 face of body bright yellow, washed with green on the sides of 

 the body and flanks ; thighs and under tail-coverts bright yellow ; 

 under wiug-covcrts white, strongly washed with yellow ; axillaries 

 ycUow ; quills dusky below, ashy along the inner web : " bill light 

 brown ; feet flesh-coloured ; iris hazel " (Audubon). Total length 

 4'3 inches, culmen 0'35, wing 2-3, tail 1 -8, tarsus 0"G5. 



Adult female. Much duller in colour than the male, and wanting 

 the black patch on the head ; the crown dull green washed \^ ith 

 dusky blackish; forehead rather more yellow; lores and eyebrow 

 bright yellow ; ear-coverts olive-yellow ; entire under surface of 

 body yeUow, but not so bright as in the male. Total length 4*4 

 inches, culmen 0'4, wing 2-2, tail 1'8, tarsus 0'75. 



Adidt male in winter, liesembles the summer plumage, but has 

 some of the black coronal feathers fringed with yellow. 



Young. According to Dr. Coues, resembling the adult female. 



With regard to the Western form called by the American authors 

 M. jjusillus pileolatm, Dr. Coues remarks in his ' Key ' :— " Speci- 

 mens from the Southern E.ocky Mountains and Pacific coast-region 

 are frequently of a brighter yellow, almost orange, on the heail and 

 fore parts below, with the under mandible bright yellow." In the 

 Museum series this diflereuce is tolerably well indicated, and, along 

 with the brighter colour, the black crest seems to me to be a little 

 more extended ; but the differences are too slight to be worthy of 

 even subspecific difference, in my opinion. 



Hah. The whole of North America in suitable localities : breeds 

 probably from the latitude of Massachusetts northward, and in the 

 higlier mountains of the West as far south at least as Colorado, if 

 not further ; the var. j^Heolatus is from the moist Pacific slopes 

 (Coues). Winters in Central America from Mexico to Panama 

 (Salvin and Godman). 



a. M. pusillus. 



Arctic America. Dr. Rae [P.]. 



,„ ^ Hudson's Bay. Capt. Herd [P.], 



c. c? ad. sk. Halifax, Nova Scotia ( W. G. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



IVinton^. 

 S ] ad. sk. Fort Simpson, June 20. B. R. Eoss, Esq. [P.]. 



^ c? ] ad. sk. Hidalgo Island. Dr. Lyall [P.]. 



f. 2 ad. sk. Chicago, Illiuois, May 20 R. B. Sharps, Esq. fP.]. 



(H. K. Coale). 



g. S ad. sk. Hyde Park, IlHuois, May 16 R.B. Sharpe, Esq. fP.]. 



(H. K. Coale). 

 h. $ ad. sk. Lake Forest, 111., May 24 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. TP.! 



(H. K. Coale). 

 »,/>;.[ c? 2 ] ad. Mexico. Sclater Collection. 



sk. 

 I. 2 ad. sk. Oaxaca (Fenoehio). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



m. cJ ad. sk. Duenas, Guatemala, Sept. 20 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(0. &). 



a. r (5 1 ad. sk. 

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