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Dendroica coronata, Gray. 



YELLOW-RUMP WAKBLER ; MYRTLE WARBLER. 



Motacilla coronata, Linn. Syst. Nat. \, 1766, 333. Sylvia coronata, Lath.; Vieillot; 

 WiLS. ; NuTT. ; Aud. Oni. Biog. W, pi, cliii. Sylvicolu coronata, Swains. ; BoN. ; AuD. 

 Birds, Am. II, pi. Ixxvi. — Jones, Nat. Bermuda, 59 (abundant in April). Dendroica 

 coronata. Gray, Genera, 1842, 2. — Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 272 ; Rev. 187. — 

 March, P. A. N. Sc. 1863, 292 (Jamaica, in summer ; breeding). — Gundl. Cab. Jour. 

 1861, 326 (Cuba ; common). — Cooper & Suckley, P. R. R. XII, ii, 1859, 180 (Puget 

 Sound). — Samuels, 226. — Dall & Bannister (Alaska). — Cooper, Orn. Cal. I, 

 1870, 89. Rhimanphus cor. Cab. Jour. 1855, 473 (Cuba). Motacilla canadensis, Linn. 

 12th ed. 1766, 334 {Ficcdula canadensis cincrea, Br. Ill, 524, pi. xxvii, fig. 1). Parus 

 mrginiantis, Linn. r2th ed. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 342. Motacilla ivmbria, cinctu, pinguis, 

 Gm. Sylvia xanthopygia, Vieill. Sylvia xanthoroa, Vieill. 



Localites quoted : S. Greenland, Reinhardt, Ibis, 1861, 5. Cordova, ScL. P. Z. S. 

 1856, 291. Xalapa, Ib. 1859, 363. Guatemala, Scl. & Salv. 1859, 11. Panama, 

 Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Lye. VIII, 63. Cuba, winter, Cab. Jour. Ill, 473. Bahamas, 

 winter, Bryant, Bost. Pr. VII, 1859. Jamaica, Go.sse, Birds Jam. 155. St. Domin- 

 go, Sallii;, P. Z. S. 1857, 231. Costa Pica, Lawr. Orizaba, winter, Sumiciirast. 



Sp. Char. Above bluish-ash, streaked with black. Under parts Avhite. The forepart 

 of breast and the sides black, the feathers mostly edged narrowly 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 Province of North America, and northward, extending sparsely along 

 United States boundary to Pacific Ocean ; Denver City, Colorado; Fort Yukon ; Greenland ; 

 Eastern Mexico to Panama R. R. ; Western West Indies and Bermuda. Breeds in Jamaica ! 



Autumnal and winter birds are very much duller and more obscurely col- 

 ored, the upper parts of an umljer cast with the streaks almost obsolete ; the 

 black of the breast wanting or but just indicated, and the yellow patches on 

 crown almost concealed by the brown tips to the feathers, and those on side 

 of breast quite dull. 



A spring male (52,283) from Washington is remarkable in having the 

 adjoining series of feathers down the middle of the back with their inner 

 webs broadly edged with yellow. In this respect it differs from all others 

 that we have noticed. 



Habits. The Yellow-crowned Wood Warbler is one of the most common 

 species of this genus, as. well as one of the most widely distributed. It is 

 found, at different seasons, throughout the eastern part of the continent, as 

 far west as the Great Plains, extending at the far north to the Pacific Ocean. 

 It has been found in Greenland, three specimens having been taken within 

 twenty years, and on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, and during the winter 

 in the West India Islands, Mexico, and Central America. Specimens from 

 Florida and Fort Steilacoom, Panama, Guatemala, and Jamaica, and from Fort 

 Rae, Anderson Eiver, and the Yukon, in the collection of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, attest its wide distribution. In Jamaica, in tlie neighborhood of 



