BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 541 



Sylma carbonata Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 308, pi. 60 (near Henderson, Ken- 

 tucky; type not preserved).— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Canada, i, 

 1832, 405. 



Sylvicola carbonata Eichakdson, Rep. Brit. Assoc, for 1836 (1837), 172. 



Vermivora carbonata Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 21. 



Helinaia carbonata Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 68; Birds Am., oct. e<l., ii, 1841, 95, 

 pi. 109. 



M[niotilta'] carbonata Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 



[MniotiUa] carbonata Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 241, no. 3493. 



[HelmUheros] carbonata Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 315. 



Dendroica carbonata Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 287; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 207; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 207. 



D\endroica'] carbonata Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 493. 



Dendroeca carbonata Sundbvall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stockli., xxvi, 1870, 

 618 (monogr.). 



Dendroeca carbonata Maynard, Birds Eastern U. S., 1882, 521. — Siiarpe,' Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 264, footnote. 



Dendroica [Perissoglossa f) carbonata American Oenitholsgists' Union, Check 

 List, 1886, 356 ("Hypothetical List," no. 23). 



Perissoglossa carbonata Baied, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 

 214, pi. 12, fig. 3.— Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 91. 



Helminthophagn (?) carbonata Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 237, footnote. 



DENDROICA C^RULESCENS CffiRULESCENS (Gmelin). 

 BLACE-TEROATED BLUE WARBLER. 



Adult male tn spring and sunmier. — Above plain dull grajash indigo 

 blue, the back sometimes more or less spotted or clouded with black; 

 wings, except lesser coverts, black, the middle coverts broadly mar- 

 gined, the greater coverts broadly edged, the remiges narrowly edged, 

 with dull grayish indigo blue, the tertials chiefly of the latter color; 

 primaries (except outermost) extensively white basally, forming a con- 

 spicuous patch; all the remiges with inner webs extensively white 

 basally and edged with white; rectrices black, narrowly edged with dull 

 grayish indigo blue, the three outermost with a large subterminal patch 

 of white on inner webs; sides of head (including lores, orbits, auricular 

 region, and malar region), chin, throat, sides of chest, sides, and flanks 

 uniform deep black, that along sides and flanks somewhat broken by 

 white streaking; rest of under parts, together with axillars and under 

 wing-coverts, white; bill black; iris brown; legs and feet duskj^ brown 

 (in dried skins). 



Adult male in autumn and winter. — Exactly like the spring and 

 summer plumage, but white portion of flanks very faintlj^ tinged with 

 brownish buff, and mandible brownish instead of black. 



Young male in first fall and w^V^^!er. — Similar to the adult, male of 

 corresponding season, but white of under parts more or less tinged 

 with yellowish, bluish gray of upper parts tinged with olive-green, 

 and black feathers of throat, etc., more or less distinctl^^ margined 

 with whitish. 

 Adult female in spring and summer. — ^Above plain olive, relieved 



