268 CHARACTERS OF DENDRCECA CCERULEA 



Dendroica CcerDles, Henry, Pr. Phila. Acad. xi. 1859, 106.— Terr. Pr. Ess. Inst iiL 1862, 156.— 



Ihimb. B. E. Pa. 1869, 25 ; Phila. ed. If.—Senih. Eep. Orn. Specs. 1874, 58 (Denver, Colo.). 

 Dendrceca ccerulea, Lawr. Ann. Lyo. N. T. vii. isei, 323 (New Granada).— JfcllMr. Pr. Ess. 



Inot. v. 1866, 86 (Hamilton, C. W.).—Coue8, Pr. Bost. Soo. xiL 1868, IW.—Lawr. Ann. 



Lyo. N. Y. ix. 1869, 200.— Ooti««, BN W. 1874, 56, 233 Jouy, Field and Forest, ili. n. 3, 



Sept. 1877, 51 CWiwhington, D. C). 

 SylTla rara, WOt. iii.lBll, 119.pl. 27, £ 2.— StepA. Gen. ZooLx. 1817, 657.— F.Ency.Mfeth. ii. 



1823, 448.— Bp. Joorn. Phila. Acad. iv. 1824, 197.— Bp. Ann. Lye. N. T. ii. 1826, 



en.— Num. Man. t 1832, 393.— .A«(J. OB. L 1832,258, pL 49.— Breio. Joom. Bost Soc. 



i. 1837, 436 (Massachusetts — wrong). 

 PbjUopnenste rara, Buk, Isis, 1828, 321. 

 FermiTora rara, Jard. " ed. Wils. 1838 ". 

 Mniotilta rara, Gray, G. of B.i 1848, 196. 

 SylTla azurea, StepA. Shaw's GZ. x. 1817, 653.— Bp. Am. Orn. iL 1828, 27, pi. 11, f.2.— Bp. 



Ann. Lyo. N. T. li. 1826, 85.— ifuH. Man. i. 1832, 407.— .^.ud OB. L 1832, 255, pi. 48.— 



Tovmg. Joorn. Phila. Acad. viiL 1839, 153 (Oregon ? !). 

 Hjpothimis azurea, Boie, Isis, 1828, 318. 

 Sylrla bifasciata. Say, Long's Exp. B. Mts. L 1823, 170. 

 SflTia popDlorum, T. Ency. M6th. ii. 1823, 449, n. 104. (After Wilson.) 

 Fanvette berylle, V. Ency. M6th. a 1823, 448. 

 FauTette des Peapliers, V. Eooy. Mfith. iL 1823, 449. 

 FauTCtte blenatre, Le Maine, Ois. Oanad. 1861, 192. 

 Ccerulean, Cseralean, or Cemlean Warbler or Wood-Warbler, Aznre Warbler, Blnc- 



green Warbler, White-tbroated Blue Warbler, Authors. 

 [Note. — Ocendea and caendea are not distingnished ; neither are coerulea and coerulea. — 

 Xote that the " Gaemlean Warbler " (MoUKiUa or Sylvia e.) of authors before Wilson is 

 Polioptila, not D&ndrceca. — See p. 101.] 



Hab. — Eastern North America to the Rocky Mountains in the latitude of 

 Colorado, and to the Lower Missouri. Rare in the Atlantic States ; authen- 

 tic as a bird of New England (Connecticut, Linaley, Am. Journ. Sci. xliv. 

 1843, — ; Purdie, Men-iam, U. ss. cc.). Canada West (McHwraith). Cuba 

 (Gundlach) ; no other West Indian record. In winter, Central and portions 

 of South America. No Mexican record. 



Ch. sp. — 3 Gcerulea, dorso medio nigra striata; infra alba, 

 pectore lateribusque fusoa-cceruleo striatis, strigd superciliari alba, 

 alis alba bifasdatis, rectricibus lateralibus alba notatis. 9 vires- 

 cens, infra sardide Jlavo-albida, alis cauddque sicut in mare. 



g , adult : Entire upper parts sky-blue, the middle of i.he back streaked 

 with black ; the crown usually richer and also with dark markings. Below 

 pure white, streaked across the breast and along the sides with dusky blue — 

 the breast-streaks inclining to form a short bar, sometimes interrupted in 

 the middle. Auriculars dusky ; edges of eyelids and superciliary line white. 

 Wings blackish, much edged externally with the color of the back, the inner 

 webs of all the quills, the outer webs of the inner secondaries, and two broad 

 bars across the tips of the greater and median coverts, white. Tail black, 

 with much exterior edging of the color of the back, all the feathers, except 

 the middle pair, with small, white, subterminal (pots on the inner webs. 

 Length, 4-4^ ; wing, 2J ; tail, 2 or less. 



$ , adult : Quite different. Upper parts dull greenish, with more or less 

 grayish-blue shade, the greenish brightest and purest on the crown. Eye- 

 lids, line over eye, and entire under parts whitish, more or less strongly over- 

 cast with dull greenish-yellow. Wings and tail dusky, the exterior edgings 

 of the color of the back; the bars, spots, and interior edgings white, as in 



