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C(EREBIDiE, HONEY CREEPERS. GEN. 41, 42. 



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tured to belong to this genus ; but this can hardly be, for Wilson says it has two 

 white wing bands, a character not shown in Myiodioctes. There is no reasonable 

 probability that any species of the family, inhabiting the Middle States in June, 

 reroains to be detected. I have no doubt that the bird is a Dendroeca, and nothing 

 in the description forbids its reference to one of the endless plumages of D. pinus ! 



^ 41. Genus SETOPHAGA Swainson. 



\ •* Redstart. ^ lustrous blue-black, belly and crissum white, sides of the 

 breast, large spot at bases of the remiges, and basal half of the tail feathers 

 (except the middle pair) fiery-orange; belly often tinged with the same; 

 bill and feet black. 9 olivaceous, ashler on the head, entirely white below, 

 wings and tail blackish, with the flame color of the $ represented by 

 yellow ; young <? like the 9 but browner, the yellow of an oi-ange hue. 

 From the circumstance that many spring males are shot in the general 

 l^lumage of the female, but showing irregular isolated black patches, it is 

 probable that the species requires at least two years to gain its perfect 

 plumage. Length 5J ; wing and tail about 2J. Eastern North America, 

 very abundant, in woodland. Wils., i, 103, pi. 6, f . 6 ; Nutt., i, 291; 



AuD., i, 240, pi. 68; Bd., 297 rutioilla. 



S Painted Flycatcher. $ lustrous black, middle of breast and belly carmine 



"^ red ; eyelids, wing coverts and crissum white, inner quills edged with white, 

 outer tail feathers mostly white. 9 not particularly difierent. 5 ; wing 

 and tail, each 2§ ; tarsus |. A Mexican species, recently found in Arizona. 



{Tncson, Bendire.) Bd., 298; Rev., 256 picta. 



Obs. One other Mexican species of this genus {S. niiniatci), and two species of 

 closely allied genera, Basileuterus rufifrons and Cardellina rubra (both Mexican), 

 have been admitted to our fauna, though they have not, to my knowledge, been 

 actually taken within our limits. 



Family CQEREBID.^. Honey Creepers. 



Primaries nine, and other external characters very nearly as in the last family ; 

 but the bill is generally slenderer and sharper, and often a little decurved. The 

 line between the two families has never been drawn with precision, and has become 

 the more difficult of expression since some of the Syh'icolidce have proven possessed 

 of a peculiarity of the Caerebidai — deeply bifid, penicillate tongue. A small group, 

 containing perhaps forty species, of pretty little birds, confined to tropical Amer- 

 ica. Our species is merely a stray visitor to Florida. ,' 



42. Genus CERTHIOLA Sundevall. 



. Honey Creeper. Dark olivaceous ash ; superciliary line and under parts 

 dull white; belly, edge of Aviug, and rump, bright yellow; wings dusky, 

 with a white spot at base of primaries; tail dusky, tipped with white ; bill 

 and feet black ; "eyes blue." Length 4J ; wing 2J^; tail If. Indian Key 

 (Wurdemann). Bd., 924 flaveola. 



