438 ORNIXnOLOGY. 



List of specimens, 

 a. pusiUus. 



20;5, S ail.; West nuinboldt Mountains, September 20, 1807. 4 j 2— CJ— 13'^— 1 -J ;}— 3 

 - 1 (',— ' 1 (1— iii- Upper inaudible, blaciiisli horu-color edged with pale biowuisL ; lower 

 mandible, pale lilaceous-brown; iris, browu ; tarsi aud toes, yellowish brown, the former 

 strongly stained with yellow posteriorly. 



880, <?«(/.; East ilumboldt Mountains, August 29, 1808. ^—^— [''■)— ^■ Upper 

 luandible, deep black, toniium edged with lilaeeous; lower, dilute-lilac, more whitish 

 beneath; iris, sepia ; tarsi aud toes, dilute brownish-yellow, the tarsi more sul[)hury, 

 the toes deeper. 



S87,tJ«(Z.; East nuniboldt Mountains, September 1, 1808. 5— 7— (?)— 2. LIpi)er 

 uiandible, blackish-olivaceous, tomium aud lower mandible, dilute reddish lilaceous- 

 brown ; iris, sepia; tarsi and toes, pale olivacoous-yellow. 



888, 9 ad.; same locality and date. 4^ — C^ — IJ. Tarsi, pale purplish-brown ; toes, 

 olive-yellow. 



1030, 9 ad.; Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake, May 24, 1809. V\—l. Ui)per man- 

 dible, brownish-black; lower, paler, basal two-thirds, pale wood-brown; iris, brown ; 

 tarsi aud toes, dilute-brown. 



/S. pileohita. 



120, S ail; valley of the Truekee, Nevada, August 0, 1807. 5— C/;.— 2^, Bill, 

 delicate pinkish horn-color, darker on the culmen; iris, hazel ; tarsi and toes, dihite 

 horn-color, stained with yellow. 



100, 9 ad.; valley of the Lower Flumboldt, Nevada, September 5, 1807. 4-J— (Jj f^— 

 2^. Bill, dark horn-color, lower mandible paler, dilute browu basally ; iris, dark ha/A'l ; 

 tarsi and toes, horn-color, latter yellowish beneath. 



n(i,3ad.; West Humboldt Mountains, September 9, 1867. 5J— OIJ— 2/-,.. Bill, 

 dark horn-color, paler beneath, the lower mandible inclining to lilaeeous; iris, hazel ; 

 tarsi and toes, pale livid horu-color. 



Setopiiaga RUTICILLA. 



Asiicriraii Rodstarf. 



Muscicapa ruticilla, Linn., Syst. Nat., I, 1700, 320. 



Setophaga rtiticiUa, Swains., Zool. Jour., Ill, 1827, 358.— Baird, Birds N. Ara., 



1858, 297 ; Catal., 1859, No. 217 ; Review, 1805, 250.— CoUES, Key, 1872, 110; 



Check List, 1873, No. 104; Birds N.W., 1874, 81.— B. B. & R., Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, I, 1874, 319, pi. xvi, ligs. 1, 5.— Uensuaw, 1875, 209. 



Tliis beautiful little bird wa.s common in summer throughout the Wah- 

 satch district, being one of several eastern species Avhich have their westward 

 range limited only by the commencement of the arid and treeless region 

 of tlie Great Basin. It was abundant in the valleys and the lower portion 

 of the carious, liut it did not extend far up into the mouiihiiiis. A few were 

 seen, in June, in the orchard of the "Church Rauche," on Antelope Island. 



