BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



545 



Sylvia pudlla (not of Wilson, 1811) Wilson, Am. Orn., v, 1812, 100, pi. 43, flg. 4 



(Pennsylvania; not of vol. iv, 1811, 17, pi. 28, = Compsothlypu americana.)— 



Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 197. 

 Sylvicolapusilla'DtiNSY, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, 38 (Jamaica; Cuba). 

 J^lvia Imcoptera Wilson, "Index, and 2d ed. (Hall's ed.), ii, 390." (Coues.) 



[Substitute for S. pmilla Wilson, preoccupied.] 

 Sylvia pcdusiris Stephens, Shaw's Gen. ZooL, x, 1817, 722 (substitute for ,S'. pusilla 



Wilson). 

 Sylvia macropos Vibillot, Enc. M6th., ii, 1823, 451 (substitute for S. pusilla 



Wilson). 

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

 Sylvia sphagnosa Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 199 (substitute 



for 8. pusilla Wilson): Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 85.— Nuttall, Man. Orn 



U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 406.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 279. 

 Vireo sphagnosa Jardine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., ii, 1832, 193.— Bkewek, ed. 



Wilson's Am. Orn., 1840, 393. 

 Sylvicola pannosa Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 162 (Jamaica; = female); Illustr. 



Birds Jam., 1849, pi. 37. 

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

 Dmdrma pannosa Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 71 (Jamaica). — 



Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 193 (Jamaica). 



DENDROICA C^ERULESCENS CAIRNSI Coues. 



CAIRNS' WARBLER. 



Similar to D. c. cwrulescens, but adult male darker above, especially 

 the pileum, which is not lighter blue than the back, the latter usually 

 more or less spotted or clouded with black, sometimes chiefly black, 

 the pileum sometimes streaked with black; adult female darker and 

 dullei olive above and less yellowish beneath, with the olive of flanks 

 darker and more strongly contrasted with the pale olive-yellowish of 

 abdomen. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 107-122 (115.1); wing, 60.5-68 (65.5); 

 tail, 48.5-54.5 (51.6); exposed culmen, 8.5-9.5 (9.3); tarsus, 18-19.5 

 (18.8).' 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 108-120 (111.6); wing, 68.5-63 

 (61.5); tail, 45.5-51 (49.3); exposed culmen, 9-9.5 (9.3); tarsus, 18-19.5 

 (18.8).^ 



'Twenty-five specimens. 



' Ten specimens. 



Average measurements of breeding males from mountains of Virginia (Mountain 

 Lake), Maryland (Garrett County), and Pennsylvania (Somerset, Mifflin, Clarion, 

 Fayette, Bedford, and Centre counties), respectively, are as follows: 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



Thirteen breeding males from -Virginia 



Five breeding males from Maryland 



Seven Breeding males from Pennsylvania . . 



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65,5 

 64.2 



51.8 

 50.5 

 52.1 



9.2 

 9.4 



18.7 

 18.9 

 18.8 



