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abnormal—its colours being plain black and white, and its habits 
rather resembling those of a TREE-CREEPER—in other groups chest- 
nut, bluish-grey and green appear, the last varying from an olive 
to a saffron tint, and in some groups the yellow predominates to an 
extent that has gained for its wearers, belonging to the genus 
Dendreca, the name of “Golden” Warblers. In the genus Seto- 
phaga, the members of which deserve to be called “ Fly-catching” 
Warblers, the plumage of the males at least presents yellow, orange, 
scarlet or crimson, and recalls the Repsrarts of the Old World. 
Dr. Coues (Key NV. Am. Birds, ed. 2, p. 288), following on the whole 
the arrangement of Baird, Brewer and Ridgway (NV. Am. birds, 1. 
p. 178), separates the Family (for which he wrongly retains the 
name Sylvicolidx) into three subfamilies, Sylvicoline (= Mniotiltine), 
Icteriine. and Setophagine, grouping the genera Mniotilta, Parula and 
DENDRECA, MNIOTILTA. SETOPHAGA. 
(After Swainson.) 
Peucedromus as “Creeping Warblers”; Geothlypis, Oporornis and 
Siurus as “Ground-Warblers” ; Protonotaria, Helminthotherus and 
Helminthophila as “ Worm-eating Warblers” ; Setophaga, Cardellina 
and Myiodioctes as “Fly-catching Warblers” ; Jcteria (CHAT, p. 85), 
which perhaps may not belong to the Family, standing alone; and 
Dendreca as “ Wood-Warblers.” 4 
The Mniotiltidx contain forms exhibiting quite as many diverse 
modes of life as do the Syiviide. Some are exclusively aquatic in 
their predilections, others affect dry soils, brushwood, forests and 
soon. Almost all the genera are essentially migratory, but a large 
proportion of the species of Dendraca, Setophaga and especially 
Basileuterus, seem never to leave their Neotropical home ; while the 
genera Leucopeza, Teretristis and Microligia, comprising in all but 5 
species, are peculiar to the Antilles. The rest are for the most part 
natives of North America, where a few attain a very high latitude,” 
1 In 1887 Mr. Ridgway (Man. N. Am. B. pp. 480-532) recognized 20 genera 
as belonging to the United States, while another comes very near their southern 
boundary, but he made no attempt to separate subfamilies. 
2 Seven species have been recorded as wandering to Greenland, and one, 
Dendreca virens, is said to have occurred in Europe (Nawmannia, 1858, p. 425) ; 
Gitke, Vogelwarte Helgoland, p. 326; Eng, trans. p. 315, 
