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688. PAINTED REDSTART, tietupliaya picta Swains. Geog. Diet South- 

 ern Arizona and New Mexico, south to highlands of Mexico. 



This is the Painted Flycatching Warbler of so striking colors. It is found in 

 Southern Arizona and New Mexico southward into Mexico. It frequents shrubbery 

 near water and in some localities Is abundant. Mr. Walter E. Bryant gives the first 

 description of the nest and eggs of this species from specimens obtained by Mr. 

 Herbert Brown in the Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona, June 6, 1880.* The nests and 

 eggs do not resemble those of 8. ruticilla. The nesting site is within cavities in 

 banks or under projecting stones. A nest as taken by Mr. Brown from a hole in a 

 road bank in the mountains; this Mr. Bryant describes as being loosely constructed 

 of dry gray grasses and fine shreds of vegetable bark, and lined with black and white 

 horse hairs. It contained four incubated eggs of a light pearl-white thickly dotted 

 with brownish-red and traces of lilac on the larger end. They measure .57x.48, 

 .60x.50, .64x.50, .58x.49. Another set of four was taken from a similar nest beneath 

 a small bush. The eggs are somewhat larger and spotted over the entire egg, the 

 markings clustering about the larger end. The sizes of three of them are .69x.52, 

 .65x.51, .66x.50; the fourth was broken. Mr. William Brewster describes a nest and 

 eggs of the Painted Redstart obtained by Mr. F. Stephens in the Santa Rita Moun- 

 tains. The nest was under a projecting stone in a bank near a small stream. 

 The three eggs which this nest contained were clear, dead white, delicately spotted 

 with light reddish-brown, the markings being sparsely distributed over the surface 

 and handsomely wreathed about the larger end. They measure .64x.51, .64x.50, 

 .66x.49. The average size is .65x.48 inches. 



[689.] RED-BELLIED REDSTART. Setophaga miniata Swains. Geog. 

 Dist. Highlands of Mexico. Texas (Giraud). 



The white of the tail feathers of this species is more restricted, reduced to a 

 narrow terminal spot (sometimes wanting altogether) on the third feather and never 

 found on the fourth. Breast and belly usually more orange-red. Nests and eggs 

 undescribed. The bird breeds in Mexico. 



690. RED-FACED WARBLER. Cardellina rubrifrons (Giraud.) Geog. Dist. 

 Highlands of Northern Central America (Guatemala) and Mexico, north to Southern 

 Arizona. 



The first knowledge we have concerning the nests and eggs of this handsome 

 Warbler is from specimens taken by Mr. W. W. Price on May 31, 1888, in the pine 

 regions of Southern Arizona the Huachuca Mountains. The nest was placed on 

 sloping ground, in a slight hollow, and contained four fresh eggs, and dissection of 

 the female showed that the full clutch had been laid. The nest was so well hidden 

 by a few sprays of columbine that it would have been overlooked had the bird not 

 been started directly from it. It was so loosely built that it crumbled to fragments 

 on being removed. The chief substance was fine, fibrous weed stalks, while the 

 lining consisted of fine grass, rootlets, plant fibres and a few hairs. Skeleton leaves 

 and bits of fine bark were intermingled throughout the nest, and the ground on 

 which it was placed was so damp that the bottom part was badly decayed. The 

 eggs from this nest were presented by Mr. Price to the National Museum Collection, 

 at Washington, D. C., and are described by the late Maj. Chas. E. Bendire as ovate in 

 shape; their ground color, "a delicate creamy-white, spotted with small blotches of 



* Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, VI. pp. 176-177. 

 t Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, VII, pp. 140-141. 



