598 BULLETIN' 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 82-94 (89); wing, 40-47 (44.8); tail, 

 25-30 (27.8); exposed culmen, 10.5-12 (11.1); tarsus, 17-18 (17.8); 

 middle toe, 11-13 (12). « 



Eastern United States and Canada; north to Nova Scotia, Prince 

 Edward Island, New Brunswick (including Grand Manan), Quebec 

 (Godbout), Ontario (north to Moose Factory), and Manitoba (east of 

 Lake Winnipeg); breeding southward to Massachusetts (Lynn, Berk- 

 shire County, etc.). New York (Lewis, Oneida, Madison, Tompkins, 

 and Greene counties), Michigan (Mackinac Island; Wequetonsing), and 

 Wisconsin (Outagamie County), more rarely to northern Indiana 

 (Carroll County), and Illinois (Ogle County) and central Iowa, and 

 through mountain districts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and 

 West Virginia to western North Carolina (Black Mountains; Roan 

 Mountain) ; wintering from near southern breeding limit to northern 

 Florida and thence along Gulf coast to Texas (Bexar County). 



Sylvia troglodytes • {not Motacilla troglodytes Linnaeus) Wilson, Am. Orn., i, 1808, 

 139, pi. 8, fig. 6.— BouAPARTE, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 187. 



[Anorihura] troglodytes (not of Macgillivray) Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 87. 



A[northura\ troglodytes Jordan, Man. Vertebr. E. U. S., 4th ed., 1884, 55. 



Troglodytes hiemalis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxxiv, 1819, 514 (New 

 York); Enc. M^th., ii, 1823, 470.— Peabody, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 316.— 

 Stejneger, Zeitschr. ges. Orn., i, 1884, 11 (monogr. )^American Ornith- 

 ologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 722.— Brewster, Auk, iii, 1886, 176 

 (Black Mts., North Carolina, 5,000 to 6,000 ft. in summer) ; v, 1888, 389, 392 

 (Winchenden, Massachusetts, breeding). — Seton, Auk, iii, 1886, 327 (Mani- 

 toba, e. of Lake Winnipeg; summer resident). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. 

 N. H., i, 1886, 260 (breeding at Lynn and on mountains of Berkshire Co., 

 Massachusetts). — Sennbtt, Auk, iv, 1887, 244 (Roan Mt., North Carolina, 

 breeding in balsam belt). — Beckham, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 691 

 (Leon Springs, Bexar Co., Texas, 1 spec, Mar. 12). — Cooke, Bird Migr. 

 Miss. Val., 1888, 273 (breeding at Polo, Illinois, andincentr. Iowa). — Eveb- 

 MANN, Auk, vi, 1889, 29 (Carroll Co., Indiana; "breeds") .—Faxon, Auk, v, 

 1889, 105 (Saddleback Mt., Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, breeding above 

 2,000 ft.).— Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 629 (e. Manitoba, 

 summer resident).- Ralph and Bagg, Auk, vii, 1890, 232 (Oneida Co., New 

 York, breeding).— Merriam (F. A.), Auk, vii, 1890, 407 (Lewis Co., New- 

 York, nesting in deciduous woods). — Brewster and Chapman, Auk, viii, 

 1891,- 137 (Suwanee R., Florida, 2 specimens). — Piers, Trans. Nova Scotia 

 Inst. Sci., ser. 2, i, 1892, 203-207 (nidification); Auk, xv, 1898, 196 (HaUfax, 

 Nova Scotia, descr. nest).— D wight. Auk, ix, 1892, 140 (North Mt., Pennsyl- 

 vania, breeding) ; x, 1893, 14 (Prince Edward I., breeding).— White, Auk, x, 

 1893, 229 (Mackinac I., Michigan, breeding) .—Nehrling, Our Native Birds, 

 etc., i, 1893, 154.— Wayne, Auk, xii, 1895, 365 (WacissaR., n. w. Florida).— 

 Baily, Auk, xiii, 1896, 296 (Elk Co., Pennsylvania, breeding).— Rives, 

 Auk, XV, 1898, 137 (West Virginia, breeding in spruce belt).— Dearborn, 

 Prelim. List Birds, Belknap and Merrimac counties. New Hampshire, 1898, 

 33 (breeding). 



Tlroglodytes} hiemalis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 555. 



"Nine specimens. 



