450 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



(59.9); tail, 44.2-48 (45.5); exposed culmen, 10.7-11.4 (10.9); tarsus, 

 17.5-18.3 (17.8).' 



Eastern United States north regularly to Massachusetts, New York, 

 southwestern Ontario (Hamilton), northern Michigan (Mackinaclsland), 

 southern Minnesota, etc., casually (?) to Manitoba (near Winnipeg); 

 breeding southward to northern New Jersey, Pennsylvania, northern 

 Indiana, northern and central Illinois (south to Rich-land County ? ) etc., 

 and southward along Allegheny Mountains to South Carolina (Pickens 

 County, 2,500 feet and upward), and eastern Tennessee (Sawyers 

 Springs); south in winter to Cuba and through eastern Mexico and 

 Central America to Colombia. 



IMotaoilla] chrysoptera Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 333 (based on The 

 Golden-winged Flycatcher, Musckapn alia aureus Edwards, Gleanings Nat. 

 Hist., ii, 189, pi. 299).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 971. 



ISylvia} chrysoptera Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 541. 



Sylvia chrysoptera Vieillot, Ois. Ain., Sept., ii, 37, pi. 97; Enc. Meth., ii, 1823, 

 438.— Wilson, Am. Orn., ii, 1810, 113, pi. 15, fig. 5 (fig. "6" in text).— 

 Bonaparte, Am. Orn., i, 1825, 12, pi. 1, fig. 3. — Ndttall, Man. Orn. U. S. 

 and Can., i, 1832, 411.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 154, pi. 414. 



Vermivora chrysoptera Jardinb, ed. "Wilson's Am. Orn., i, 1832, 259. — Bonaparte, 

 Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 21. 



Sylvicola chrysoptera Richardson, Rep. Brit. Assoc, 1836 (1837), 171. 



Helinaia chrysoptera Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 67; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 

 91, pi. 107.— Brewer, Proo. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, I860, 307 (Cuba). 



Mlniotilta'] chrysoptera Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 



IMniotilta'] chrysoptera Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 239, no. 3459. 



[Helmitheros] chrysoptera Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 18.W, 315. 



Helmitheros chrysoptera Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, 143 (Bogota, 

 Colombia). 



Hlelminthophaga'] chrysoptera Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 20, footnote. 



Helmirdhophaga chrysoptera Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 255; Cat. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1859, no. 181; Review Am. Birds, 1864, 175.— Henry, Proc. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 106 (New Mexico).— Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 

 397 (Choctum, Guatemala). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1861, 293 

 (Lion Hill, Isth. Panama); viii, 1866, 284 (near New York City); ix, 1868, 

 94 (Barranca, Costa Rica). — Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 326 (Cuba); 



' Three specimens. 



Specimens from opposite sides of Allegheny Mountains average, respectively, as 

 follows: 



