666 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus CHAMjEA Gambel. (Page 558, pi. CXXIL, fig. 4.) 



Species. 



Adult: Above plain brownish, the tail showing faint narrow darker bars 

 (nearly or quite obsolete in some specimens) ; beneath pale cinnamon, or buft'y, 

 middle of belly somewhat paler, throat and chest usually faintly streaked with 

 darker; length about (5.00-6.50. (Sexes alike, and young not materially different 

 from adult.) JVest in low bu-shes, composed of small twigs and straw, mixed with 

 feathers, open at top. Eggs 3-5, .71 X -57, plain pale greenish blue. 



«'. Darker: Above deep umber-brown, the sides of head and neck dark graj-ish ; 

 beneath light cinnamon; wing 2.20-2.60 (2.37), tail 3.20-3.70 (3.41), culmon 

 .40-.45 (.42), tarsus 1.00-1.05 (1.01). JIab. Coast of California. 



742. C. fasciata Gamb. Wren-Tit. 

 a'. Paler: Above brownish graj', or grayish brown, the sides of head and neck de- 

 cidedly ashy; beneath pale vinaceous-buff, nearly white on belly ; wing 2.20- 

 2.50 (2.37), tail 3.20-3.70 (3.42), culmen .40-.45 (.41), tarsus .95-1.05 (1.00). 

 I£ab. Interior of California. 



742a. C. fasciata henshawi Kidgw. Pallid Wren-Tit. 



Family SYLVIID^. — The Warblers, Kinglets, and Gnat- 

 catchers. (Page 322.) 



Genera. 



a' Wing longer than the nearly even or emarginate tail ; anterior tarsal envelope 

 continuous or undivided for the greater part of its extent ; no white on 

 tail. 

 6'. Nostrils exjiosed ; inner side of tarsus with (iisliiict scutell». (Subfamih- 



Sylviina:) Phyllopseustes. (Pago 5GC.) 



J'. Nostrils concealed by small feathers ; inner side ol' tarsus without distinct 



scutcllsB. (Subfamily 7i'e7»/(na'.) Regulus. (Page 323.) 



rt^ Wing not longer than the graduated tail ; anterior tarsal envelope distinctly 

 scutellate; outer tail-feathers w-ith cons])icuous white tips and edgings 

 (sometimes almost entirely white). (Subfamily Polioptiliiuv.) 



Polioptila. (Page 322.) 



Gems phyllopseustes Meyer. (Page 506, pi. CXXIY., fig. 1.) 



Species. 



Adult; Above plain olive green ; a conspicuous superciliary stripe of grayish 

 white (in summci-) or light greenish yellow (in winter); lower parts plain whitish, 

 tinged with olive-grayish on sides, and more or less tinged with light greenish yel- 



