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feathered specimens have the head plain red, the cap sooty-black. There is much difference in 

 the character of the white on the nape. Length .5.00 ; wing 2.66 ; tail 2.50 ; tarsus 0.60; 

 hill 33 quite different in shape from that of Setopliaga. Young, newly fledged ; Ash <J upper 

 parts much shaded with hrown, and white of the under parts the same. Kump snowy-wliite, 

 as in the adult, hut the nuchal patch ohscure or inappreciahle. Wings and tail as m the adult, 

 hut with browner edgings. Black cap restricted to t.jp oi head, and of a dull sooty cast. Red 

 parts of the adult, including those parts of the side of the head which are occupied in the adult 

 with the extension of the black cap, dull grayish-brown, tinged or irregularly slashed with red, 

 especially on the forehead and throat. Bill light brown ; feet pale. Arizona, and doubtless 

 New Mexico and Texas ; common in the pineries of Southern Arizona. 

 46. SETO'PHAGA. (Gr. <ti)s, o-riros, ses, setos, an insect ; (piya, phago, I eat.) Redstarts- 

 Bill thoroughly Muscicapine in depression and breadth at base, where wider than high, 

 straightness of superior and lateral outhnes, and development of rictal bristles, which reach far 

 beyond the nostrils. Wings pointed, not shorter than tail ; 2d, 3d, and 4th quills nearly equal 

 and longest ; 1st intermediate between 4th and 5th. Tail rather long and fan-shaped, with 

 broad flat feathers, widening at their ends. Feet slender, with long tarsi indistinctly scutellate 

 externally, and short toes, the middle one without its claw being about half as long as the 

 tarsus. Coloration indeterminate. Habits arboricole and Muscicapine. The genus has been 

 made to cover considerable variety in form among the numerous species of Fly-catching Warblers 

 of subtropical and tropical America, where it is best represented. The diagnosis, drawn up 

 from S. ruticilla, may require some little modification in order to its appUcabihty even to S. 

 picta. All the extralimital species differ in the shorter and more rounded Aving and other char- 

 acters. S. ruticilla is the only species in which the sexes are decidedly dissimilar in color ; 

 even in S. picta, the nearest ally, they are substantially alike ; and in all the rest, in wMch the 

 coloration is very various, there is no obvious difference between the sexes. Species of Seto- 

 phaga (including Myiohorus and Euthlypis), to the number of twelve or more, are recognized 

 by late authors. S. ruticilla is the only one that is generally distributed in North America. 



Analysis of Species. 



g Black, white, and orange; 5 brown, wliite, and j'ellow ruticilla 1.52 



J 5 Black, white, and carmine-red picta 151 



151. S. plc'ta. (Lat. picta, painted. Fig. 176.) Painted Fly-catching Waeblee. ^ ? : 

 Lustrous black ; middle of breast and belly carmine-red ; eyelids, a large patch on the wings 

 formed by the greater and middle coverts, broad edging 

 of inner secondaries, edging of inner webs of primaries 

 toward the base, lining of wings, nearly all the outer tail- 

 feather, and a diminishing space on the next two or three, 

 together with the crissum, white. Bill and feet black. 

 Length 5 inches; wing and tail each 3.75; tarsus 0.66; 

 bill 0.33-0.40. $ not particularly different from the ^, 

 though rather less richly colored. In poor plumages, the 

 black is not so lustrous ; red of the belly less extensive and 

 of a more bricky-red tone ; wdiite of the wings and tail more 

 restricted. Very young : Dull black, or only slightly lus- j.,(j ^e. - Painted Fly-oatcliing 



trous ; white nearly as in the adult ; spot on lower eyelid. Warbler. (Ad nat. del. H. "W. Elliott.) 

 patch on \ving, outer edge of first primary only, outer edges of secondaries, inside of wings, 

 axillars, crissum, tibiae, outer tail-feather except at base, and a diminishing space on the second 

 and third, white. Arizona and N. Mexico, and doubtless also Texas ; common in Santa Rita 

 Mts. of Arizona. Nest found "under a projecting stone, in a bank near a stream" ; large, flat, 

 shallow, of bark, weed-fibre, grasses and a few hairs. Eggs 3, 0.65 X 0.50, white, speckled 

 and wreathed with pale reddish-brown. 



