PAM. REGUILIDAS 9 
Regulus brachyrhynchus Brehm, Handb. Naturg. Vég. Deutschl. p. 483 (1831) (« zieht im April und September 
durch die hiesige Gegend » i. e. Renthendorf). 
Fig. Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. Vol. 3, pl. 93, ff. 4-6; Dresser, Birds Europe, Vol. 2, pl. 73, f. 1. 
Hab. Central Europe and the countries bordering the Mediterranean : Germany east to Poland, Austria, 
Hungary, France, Spain, Algeria, Tunis, Italy, the whole Balkan Peninsula and Asia Minor. 
15. Regulus ignicapillus madeirensis Harcourt. 
Regulus madeirensis Harcourt, Sketch of Madeira, p. 118 (1851) Madeira). 
Fig. Dresser, Birds of Europe, Vol. 2, pl. 73, f. 2. 
Hab. Mountain forests of the island of Madeira. 
16. Regulus goodfellowi Ogilvie-Grant. 
Regulus goodjellowi Ogilvie-Grant, Bull Brit. Ornith. Club, Vol. 16, p. 122 (1906) (Mount Morrison, Formosa, 
9000 to 10,000 feet. 
Fig. The Ibis (9), Vol. 1, 1907, pl. 3. 
Hab. Island of Formosa : Mount Morrison at elevations of from 9000 to 10,000 feet. 
17. Regulus calendula calendula (Linnzus). (Plate, Fig. 5.) 
Motacilla calendula Linneus, Syst. Nat. ed. 12, Vol. 1, p. 337 (1766) (based on « Le Poule ou Souci de Pensyl- 
vanie », Brisson, Ornith. Vol. 3, p. 584 : Pennsylvania). 
Parus griseus Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Vol. 1, 1, p. 1010 1789) (« Greenland », based on O. F. Miiller, Zool. Dan. 
Prodr. 1776, p. 34 : « Parus griseus vertice rubro »). 
Regulus yubineus Vieillot, Ois. Amér. sept. Vol. 2, p. 49, pls. 104, 105 (1807) (new name for Mofacilla calendula 
Linneus). 
Fig. Audubon, Ornith. Biogr. Vol. 2, 1834, pl. 195. 
Hab. North America, north to the limit of tree growth, in Labrador, Keewatin, Mackenzie, Yukon and 
Alaska; breeding southward to Quebec, North Michigan and High Mountains of New Mexico, 
Arizona and North California (Mount Shasta); in winter across United States and over tableland of 
Mexico south to highlands of Guatemala. Accidental in Greenland. 
15. Regulus calendula cineraceus Grinnell. 
Regulus calendula cineraceus Grinnell, Condor, Vol. 6, p. 25 (1904) (Strain’s Camp, Mount Wilson, Los Angeles Co., 
California). 
Hab. Mountains of southern California. 
19. Regulus calendula grinnelli \V. Palmer. 
Regulus calendula grinnelli WW. Palmer, Auk, Vol. 14. p. 399 (1897) (Sitka, Alaska). 
Hab. Pacific Coast District of North America, breeding from British Columbia to head of Lynn Canal 
and Yakutat Bay, Alaska. Occasionally migrating in winter to Middle California. 
20. Regulus calendula obscurus Ridgway. 
Regulus calendula obscurus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr. Vol. 2, p. 184 (1876) (Guadalupe Isl., 
Lower California). : 
Hab. Guadalupe Island, off Lower California. 
4. GENUS POLIOPTILA ScLATER 
Culicivora (nec Swainson 1527!) Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. 2, 1837, p. 243 (Sp. un. : C. atri- 
capilla Swainson). 
. 
Polioptila Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. Vol. 23, 1855, p. 11 (Lype : Motacilla caevulea Linneus). 
Characters. Bill somewhat shorter than head, slender, depressed and rather broad at 
base; culmen nearly straight for basal third, rather abruptly decurved terminally, the tip very 
slightly uncinate; maxillary tomium nearly straight with a distinct subterminal notch; gonys 
straight or very faintly convex, Rictal bristles soft, though well developed. Nostrils exposed, 
rather large, longitudinal, distinctly operculate, not covered by latero-frontal plumules. Wing 
