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birds, which he had started from the ground while walking in 

 the pine woods. With the rest, it had apparently been feeding 

 upon the ground, and had flown up to a low branch of a pine, 

 where it sat and began to give forth a very beautiful song, 

 which he described as consisting of detached, melodious, whist 

 ling notes. During the next few days, I confined my collecting- 

 trips to the spruce woods, and though I watched eagerly for 

 this to me strange warbler, I did not see it until the last day of 

 my stay in the locality, when I heard a few strange Vireo-like 

 notes coming from some thick pines, and, hurrying to the spot, 

 soon had the satisfaction of seeing one of these warblers on 

 the low limbs of a huge pine, where it was moving quickly over 

 the large branches, its manner and whole appearance remind- 

 ing me instantly of the Pine Creeper [Dendroica piwds). A few 

 moments later, a second specimen was shot from the top of a 

 tall pine, where it was actively creeping about. As all the 

 warblers present here at this time were migrants, we may rea- 

 sonably infer that, with the others, this species was en route 

 from some locality to the north, and perhaps it may be found to 

 be a rare inhabitant of the high pine region throughout Arizona 

 and New Mexico." 



Genus DENDECECA Qray 



MotaciUa and Sylvia, in part, of early authors. 



SylTicola of Swavnson, in part, and of many authors. — Qray, List of G. of B. 2d ed. 1841, 32. 



Not of Humphreys. 

 Dendrolca, Qray, List of G. of B. 1841, App. sep. titled and paged, 1842, 8 (type MotadUa, 



coronata Ij.).—Bd. NAB. 1858, 263. 

 Dendr(Bca, " Agassiz" .—Sund. Oefv. K. Veten8k.-Akad.rorh. iii. 1809, 605 (monographic). 

 Dendrieca, Elliot, Introd. to Ulust. BNA. 18—, — . 

 Rimampbus, Bafinesque, "Am. MoDthly Mag. iv. 1818, 39 ; Joarn. de Fhys. Ixxxviii, 1819, 



417". (Type J2. cifrinus, supposed to be D. ^estiva. Name not available.) 

 Rhlmampbus, Hartl. Bevne Zoologiqne, 1845, 342. 

 Bhimanphus, Gray, " 1848 ".—Cab. Mns. Hein. L 1850, 19. 



Chars. — Bill variable in shape, usually conico-atteuuate, more 

 or less depressed at base, compressed from the middle ; notched 

 near the tip, not showing the extreme acuteness of that of Hel- 

 mintherus, Helminthophaga, and Protonotaria. Eictus with ob- 

 vious bristles, which are not evident in the true " worm-eating" 

 Warblers. Tarsus longer than the middle toe and claw (it is 

 shorter, or not longer, in Mniotilta). Hind toe little if any 

 longer than its claw (decidedly longer in Mniotilta and Parula). 

 Wings much longer than tail, pointed, 1st and 2d primaries 

 longest. Tail moderate, with rather broad feathers, nearly even, 

 but varying to slightly rounded, or with slight central emargi- 

 nation. Pattern of coloration indeterminate. Tail always with 

 white blotches (except in cestiva and its immediate allies, where 



