BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 701 



otherwise similar to adults, but hindneck concolor with back, etc., 

 the color more brownish olive, and texture of plumage much looser. 



Admit male.— Ij&n^ih (skijis), 93-101.5 (97); wing, 56.6-60 (58.4); 

 tail, 42-46.5 (44.2); exposed culmen, 6-8.6 (7.6); tarsus, 16.6-17.6 

 (17.2); middle toe, 8-9.5 (8.9). « 



Admit female.— Length (skins), 90-101 (96); wing, 56-58 (56.4); 

 tail, 41.6^6 (42.7); exposed culmen, 7-8.5 (7.8); tarsus, 16-17 (16.6); 

 middle toe, 8-9 (8.5).« 



North America east of Rocky Mountains; north to Labrador (as far 

 as Aillik), Keewatin (lower Echimamish), etc. ; breeding southward to 

 Massachusetts (Berkshire and Plymouth counties), central New York 

 (Oneida County), northern Michigan (Mackinac Island), northern Min- 

 nesota (?), etc., and along Allegheny Mountains to western North 

 Carolina (in spruce belt); wintering southward to northern Florida, 

 and westward along Gulf coast to south-central Texas. 



Regulus cristatus Vibillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 50, pi. 106 (new name for 

 Motacilla regulus Linnseus''). — Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila., iv, 

 1824, 187; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 91.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and 

 Can., i, 1832, 420.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 476, pi. 186.— Stejneger, 

 Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 30 (crit). 



Sylvia regulus (not Motacilla regulus Linnaeus) Wilson, Am. Orn., i, 1808, 126, 

 pi. 8, fig. 2. 



R^egulus'] sairopa Lichtbnstbin, Verz. Doubl., 1823, 35 (North America; ex Parus 

 sairapa Illiger, manuseript). 



Regulus sairapa Bonapaete, Geog. andComp. List, 1838, 19; Consp. Av., i, 1850, 

 291.— Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 82; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 165, pi. 

 132. — WooDHOusE, in Eep. Sitgreaves' Ezpl. Zuiii and Col. E., 1853, 67, 

 part (Indian Territory; Texas). — Badeker, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 33, pi. 1, 

 fig. 8 (Labrador; fig. of egg). — Baird, Eep. Pacific E. E. Surv., ix, 1858, 

 227, part (Carlisle, Pennsylvania; District of Columbia) ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 

 1859, no. 162, part; Eeview Am. Birds, 1864, 65, part (Sherborn, Massachu- 

 setts; Carlisle; Liberty Co., Georgia). — Willis, Ann. Eep. Smithson. Inst, 

 for 1858 (1859), 282 (Nova Scotia).— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 476 (San Antonio, 

 TexaS) winter). — Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 260 (Jacksonville, 

 Florida, Jan.) ; Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., i, 1886, 261 (mountains of Berkshire 

 Co., Massachusetts; breeding?). — Maynard, Birds Florida, 1872, 25. — 

 Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 22, part; 2ded., 1882, no. 34; Birds N. W., 1874, 

 16, part; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 96, part. — Baied, Bebwee, and Eidgway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 73, part, pi. 5, fig. 8.— Ingbesoll, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, i, 1876, 78, part (breeding habits, etc.). — Bebwstee, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 19 (descr. young); Auk, iii, 1886, 177 (Black Mts., w. 

 North Carolina, breeding in spruce belt); v, 1888, 337-344 (Winchendon, 

 Worcester Co., Massachusetts, breeding; descr. nesting habits, nest and eggs, 

 etc.).— Bebwer, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 96 (Bangor, Maine, breed- 



a Ten specimens. 



fiSince Vieillot's account relates only incidentally to the European species {R. 

 regulus), both his description and plate being of the American species, it is a serious 

 question whether the name Regulus cristatus should not be used for the latter, as has 

 been suggested by Newton (Yarrell's Hist. Brit. Birds, i, 1871, 457, footnote) and 

 claimed by Stejneger (Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 30). 



