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male; a rather indistinct superciliary streak of dull yellowish or whit- 

 ish; under parts dull whitish, usually more or less tinged with yellow, 

 especially on breast, chest, and sides of neck, the chest and sides more 

 or less distinctly streaked with dusky grayish or blackish; bill, etc., 

 as in adult male. 



Adult female in autwmn and winter. — Similar to the female in 

 spring or summer, but olive of upper parts more or less tinged with 

 gray anteriorly, pileum without black streaks or spots, paler super- 

 ciliary streak obsolete, and streaks on under parts much less distinct, 

 more grayish. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 107.9-119.4 (113.9); wing, 64-70.1 

 (66.3); tail, 44.9^9.5 (47.2); exposed culmen, 9.4-10.2 (9.8); tarsus, 

 16.3-18.8 (17.8); middle toe, 11.9-12.9 (12.3).^ 



Adult female.— Length- (skim), 109.2-119.4 (113.3); wing, 61-66.8 

 (63.6); tail, 43.4r^7.5 (45.7); exposed culmen, 9.4-10.4 (9.7); tarsus, 

 17.5-18.3 (17.8); middle toe, 11.2-12.4 (11.9).' 



Eastern North America, north to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, 

 southern shores of Hudson Bay (Moose Factory, etc.), and Manitoba, 

 breeding southward to "northern New England;" during migration 

 southward through more southern United States east of the Great 

 Plains, wintering in the West Indies (Bahamas; Cuba; Jamaica; Haiti; 

 Porto Rico; St. Croix; Guadeloupe), Yucatan (one record only), and 

 Tobago. Resident in Jamaica, and said to breed on high mountains 

 of that island! 



[Motadlla] tigrina Gmelin, Syat. Nat., i, 1788, 985 (based on Spotted Ydkm Fly- 

 catcher, Muscwapa lutea micidata, Edwards, Gleanings Nat. Hist., vi, 101, pi. 

 257, lower fig.). 



[Sylvia] tigrhiii Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 537. 



Sylvia tigrina Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 34, pi. 44, fig. 2; Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 

 Nat., xi, 1817, 228; Ene. M6th., ii, 1823, 428.— Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., 

 X, 1817, 738. 



M[nioiilta'] tigrina Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 



[Mniotilta'] tigrina Geay, Hand-list, i, 1869, 239, no. 3465. 



l^Sylvicola'] tigrina (not of Richardson, 1837) Bonapaete, Gonsp. Av., i, 1850, 308. 



^ Fifteen specimens. 



'' Six specimens. 



Specimens from opposite sides of the AUeghenies average, respectively, as foUowa: 



