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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus SETOPHAGA, Swains. 



Setophaga, Swainson, Zool. Jour. Ill, Dee. 1827, 360. (Type, Muscicajm ruticilla, L.) — 

 Baird, Birds N. Am. 18,58, 297. Sylvania, Nuttall, Man. Orn. I, 1832. (Same type.) 



Gen. Chak. Bill much depressed, the lateral outlines straight towards tip. Bristles 



reach half-way from nostril to tip. Cuhnen almost 

 straight to near the tip; commissure ver}^ slightly 

 curved. Nostrils oval, with membrane above them. 

 Wings rather longer than tail, pointed ; second, third, 

 and fourth quills nearly equal ; first intei'mediate 

 between fourth and fifth. Tail rather long, rather 

 rounded ; the feathers broad, and widening at ends, 

 the outer web narrow. Tarsi with scutellar divis- 

 ions indistinct externally. Legs slender ; toes short, 

 inner cleft nearly to base of first joint, outer with 

 first joint adherent ; middle toe without claw, not 



quite half the tarsus. 

 Setophaga ruticilla, Sw. 



The genus Seto^jharja is very largely represented in America, although of 

 the many species scarcely any agree exactly in form with the type. In the 

 following diagnosis I give several species, referred to, perhaps erroneously, as 

 occurring in Texas. 



Belly white. End of lateral tail-feathers black. Sexes dissimilar. 



Ground-color black, without vertex spot. Sides of breast and bases of quills 

 and tail-feathers reddish-orange in male, yellowish in female . . . rulicilla. 

 Belly vermilion or carmine red. Lateral tail-feathers, including their tips, white. 

 Sexes similar. 



Entirely lustrous black, including head and neck. No vertex spot. A 

 white patch on the wings .......... picta} 



Plumbeous-ash, including head and neck. A chestnut-brown vertex spot. 

 No white on wings ........... miniata.- 



Setophaga ruticilla, Swains. 



AMERICAN REDSTART. 



Motacilla ruticilla, Linn. Syst. K"at. lOtli ed. 1758, 186 (Catesbj% Car. tab. 67). Muscicapa 

 rtUicilla, LiNN. ; Gmelin ; Vieillot ; Wils. ; BoN. ; AuD. Orn. Biog." I, pi. xl. 

 Setophaga rut. Swains. Zool. Join\ III, 1827, 358. — Bon. ; Aud. Birds Am. — 

 SCLATER, P. Z. S. (Ecuador, Bogota, Cordova, Oaxaca, City of Mexico). — Sclater & 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 12 (Guatemala). — Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 297 ; Rev. 256. — 

 Max. ; Salle, P. Z. S. 1857 (St. Domingo). — Newton, Ibis, 1859, 143 (St. Croix ; 

 winter). — Cab. Jour. 1856, 472 (Cuba); 1860, 325 (Costa Rica). — Gundlach, ib. 

 1861, 326 (Cuba). — Bryant, Pr. Bost. See. VII, 1859 (Bahamas). — Lawrence, Ann. 

 N. Y. Lye. 1861, 322 (Panama R. R.). — Samuels, 249. Sylvania rut. Nuttall, 

 Man. I, 1832, 291 (type of genus). Motacilla flavica;ucla, Gmelin, I, 1788, 997 (9). 



1 Setop)haga picta (Swainson), Baird, Rev. 1865, 256. Muscicapa leucomus, Giraud, Texas 

 Birds. Hab. Mexico and Guatemala. 



^ Sctopliaga miniata (Swainson), Baird, Rev. 1865, 256. Miiscicapa derhami, Giraud, 

 Texas Birds. Hab. Mexico. 



