272 U. S. p. K. E. EXP. AND SUEVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENERAL EEPOET. 



DENDEOICA COKONATA, Gray. 



Yellow-rumped Warbler. 



Molacilla coronata, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat I, 1766, 333. — Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 974, (male.) 



Sylvia coronata , Latham, Index Dm. II, 1790, 538. — Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 24 ; pi. Ixiviii, l.xxix. — 

 Wilson, Am. Cm. II, 1810, 138; pi. xvii, f. 4, (summer)— II, 356; pi. xlv, f. 3, (winter.)— 

 NnTTALL, Man. I, 1832, 361.— Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 303 ; pi. cliii. 



Sylvicola coronata, Swainson, F. Eor. Am. II, 1831, 216. — Bonap. List, 1838. — Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 307. — Aim. 

 Synop. 1839, 76.— Ib. Birds Amer. II, 1841, 23 ; pi. Ixxvi. 



Dendroica coronata, G. R. Gray, Genera, 2d ed. Suppl. 1842, 8. 



Rhimanphus coronalus, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1850, 19. — Ib. Journ. Orn. Ill, 1855, 473, (Cuba.) 



Parus virginianus, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 342, (winter.) 



Molacilla umbra, Gmelin, Syst. I, 1788, 959. 



•Molacilla cincta, Gmelin, Syst. 1, 1788, 980. 



JMotacilla pingnis, Gmelin, Syst. I, 1788, 973. 



" Sijh-ia xanthoroa, Vieillot," (Gray.) 



Sp. Ch. — Above bluish ash, streaked with black. Under parts white. The fore part of breast and the sides black, the 

 feathers mostly edged with white. Crown, rump, and sides of breast yellow. Cheeks and lores black. The eyelids and a 

 superciliary stripe, two bands on the wing and spots on the outer three tail feathers, white. Female of duller plumage and 

 browner above. Length, 5.65; wing, 3.00; tail, 2.50. 



Hab. — Eastern North America to the Missouri plains. Stragglers seen on Puget';) Sound. 



Second quill longest, tliircl scarcely shorter ; first longer than fourth. Tail slightly rounded, 

 eraarginate, subspatulate. 



Male, in spriruj. — Upper parts bluish gray, broadly streaked with black on the back, less so 

 on the crown and rump ; middle of crown, rump, and a patch on the side of the breast bright 

 yellow. Secondary and first row of smaller coverts tipped with white, forming two bands on 

 the wings. Quills and tail dark brown, margined with bluish gray ; the latter with the inner 

 webs of the outer three having a white patch near the end, largest on the outer feathers. Eyelids 

 and a superciliary stripe white. Lores and cheeks black. Lower neck and fore part of breast 

 and sides black, the feathers often tipped with white, giving the whole a lunulate appearance. 

 Throat and rest of lower parts white. Bill and feet black. 



Female, in spri^ig. — Upj^er parts dirty light brown, slightly streaked with black. Crown, 

 sides, and rump not so bright a yellow. The other markings as in the male, though much 

 duller, (622.) 



Male, in fall. — Upper parts as in the female in spring. Eyelids white. Lores dusky ; this 

 color reaching roimd the lower eyelid. Side of breast dirty yellow. The fore part of breast 

 and throat tinged with pale light brown. Lower parts slightly streaked with brown, very faint, 

 however. (No. 829.) 



The superciliary white stripe in the adult male does not always extend continuously from the 

 bill, but is interrupted just above the anterior extremity of the eye ; the eye too is only bordered 

 above and below by white, not anteriorly and posteriorly. The feathers of the nostrils, and a 

 very narrow frontal band, are black. 



It is possible, in high latitudes and during the breeding season, that the fore breast and 

 anterior portion of sides may be pure black, (except the yellow patch.) 



A single but unquestionable specimen of this species (7C71) has been found west of the Rocky 

 Mountains ; collected at Steilacoom by Dr. Suckley. Dr. Coojjer has also seen specimens in 

 Washington Territory. 



