548 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female.— h^x^gih (skins), 118-140 (130); wing, 6Y-75 (70.5); 

 tail, 51.4-59 (56.1); exposed culmen, 8.2-10.4 (9.2); tarsus, 18-19.6 

 (18.7); middle toe, 11.2-12.8 (12).' 



North America in general, chiefly east and north of Rocky Moun- 

 tains; breeding from mountains of western Massachusetts (Berkshire 

 Co.), northeastern New York (Adirondacks), northern Michigan (Macki- 

 nac Island), Manitoba, etc., to limit of tree-growth (Labrador to west- 

 ern Alaska) ; wintering from United States (except extreme northern 

 portions) southward to West Indies (Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, 

 and Porto Rico), island of Old Providence (Caribbean Sea), and through 

 Mexico (both coasts) and Central America to Isthmus of Panama; acci- 

 dental in Greenland (three records), eastern Siberia (Tschuktschi 

 Peninsula, May); occasional in Bahamas. Said to breed in Jamaica! 



IMotacilla] coronata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 333 (based on Golden- 

 croiimed Flycatcher, Mnscicapa cmreo vertice, Edwards, Gleanings Nat. Hist. 

 187, pi. 298, fig. 1).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat, i, 1788, 974. 



Motacilla coronata Boddabrt, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 44. 



ISylvia} coronata Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 538. — Vibillot, 01s. Am. Sept., 

 ii, 1807, 24, pis. 78, 79; Nouv. Diet, d' Hist. Nat, xi, 1817, 178; Enc. M^th., 

 ii, 1823, 426.— Wilson, Am. Orn., ii, 1810, 138, pi. 17, fig. 4; ii, 356, pi. 45, 

 fig. 3. — Stephens, Shaw's Gen. ZooL, x, 1817,636. — Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. 

 Nat Sci. Phila., iv, 1824,192; Ann. Lye. N. Y.,ii, 1826, 77.— Lesson, Traits 

 d'Orn., 1831, 418.— Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1831, 2 (Alvarado 

 and Temascaltepec) ; see Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 57.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. 

 U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 361.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 303, pi. 153.— 

 D'Okbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 60.— Weiz, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H., X, 1866,267 (Labrador). 



i^lvicoht, coronata Swainson and Richahdson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 216.— 

 BoNAPAETB, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 22. — Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 51; 

 Birds Am., oct ed., ii, 1841, 23, pi. 76. — Gossb, Birds Jamaiea, 1847,155.— 

 Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, 38 (Jamaica and Cuba). — Jakdinb, 

 Contr. Orn., 1848, 82 (Bermudas, Sept to Dec. 17).— Hurdis, Jardine's 



' Twenty-one specimens. 



Western specimens average slightly larger, but the difference is too inconstant to 

 justify separation, especially in the absence of any difference in color. Average 

 measxirements are as follows: 



