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NORTH AMERICAN RIRDS. 



Genuh SETCPHAGA, Swaix 



NS. 



Setophaga, SwAiNSoN, Znol. Jour. HI, Dlc. 18'J7, 360. (Tyin?, Musciatpa rutkllla, L.) — 

 l>Aii:i>, IJiidsN. Am. ISati, 297. >Si/lvunia, Nuttall, Mau. Oni. I, l^'ol. (Same tyi»«'.) 



Gen. CiiAii. Rill niu(-h deprcfist'd, the lateral outlines i^traight towards tip. Bristk-.s 



reach half-way horn nostril to tip. Cuhnen ahuDSt 

 straight to near the tip: corniiissure very slightly 

 curved. Nostrils oval, with nieuibrarx' above thcui. 

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

 and iburth (piills nearh' ecpial ; first intermediate 

 between fl^urth and fifth. Tail rather lonur, rather 

 romided ; the feathers broad, and widening at ends, 

 the outer \\v\> narrow. Tarsi with scutellar divis- 

 ion>< indistinct externally. Legs slender; toes sliort, 

 iinier cleft nearly to base of tirst joint. t)utei with 

 first joint adherent; middle toe without claw, not 

 quite half the tarsus. 



,\!lupha(ja ruticill'j, few. 



The genus Sefophnf/a is very largely re])reseiited in America, although oi 

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

 following tliagnosis I give several s})ecies, referred to, perhaps erroneously, as 

 occurring in Texas. 



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



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

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

 Belly vermilion t)r 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 .......... 



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



No white on wings 



picta. 

 mhiiata.' 



Setophaga ruticilla, Swains. 



AMERICAN SEDSTABT. 



Motacilhi ruticilla, LiXN. S\ .^r. Nat. 10th ed. 17r>8, 186 (Catesby, Car. tab. 67). Mwiciaipa 

 rutiiilht, Linn. ; O.mklin ; Vikili.<»t ; Wils. ; Hon. ; Arn. Orn. I>it»g. I, pl. xl. 

 Sdnpluiijii riif. Swains. Zoiil. .Tour. Ill, 1827, 3r»8. — Ron. ; Ain. Rirds Am. — 

 ScLATKi:, r. Z. S. (Ecuador, Bogota, Cordova, Oaxaca, City of Mexico). — Sclateu & 

 Salvin, Il)i.s, 18:.9, 12 (Guatemala). — lUiitn, Hinls N. Am. 18r>8, 2i«7 : Hev. '1',^. — 

 Max. ; Sallk, I*. Z. S. Ih'u (St. Domingo). — Nkwton, Ibi.s, 1859, 143 (St. Croix ; 

 winter). —Cab. Jour. lvS.'>6, 472 (Cuba); 1860, :i2r) ((\ista Kica). — CUNOL.Vt ll, ib. 

 1861, 326 (Cuba). — 15i:VANT, Pr. liost. Soc. VII, 18r.9 (Bahamas). — LawkkN( K, Ann. 

 N. Y. Lye. 1861, 322 (Panama R. R.). -- Samif.i.s, 249. Si/lraniif rut. Xittall, 

 Man. I, 1832, 291 (type of genus). Motncilla jiavicmida, Cmelin, I, 1788, 997 (9^- 



^ Sdoplutija pictd (Swainson), Baiud, Rev. 1865, 256. I'.uscicapd Icucomits, GiUAri), Texas 

 Birds. Hah. Mexico and Guatemala. 



2 Setophaga miniafa. (Swainson), Haiud, Rev. 1865, 2.";t>. Muscicapn dcrhanxi, GiKAlD, 

 Texas Birds. Ilab. Mexico. 



