BIRDS OP -NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 567 



ScLATER, Ibis, 1860, 273 (Tactic).— Sclatee, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 358, part, in 

 synonymy; Ibis, 1865, 89 (crit.), 237 (San Antonio, Texas).— Dressbk, Ibis, 

 1865, 477, (Medina R., Texas) .— Salvin, in Rowley's Orn. Misc., i, 1876, 181, 

 pi. 23, 3 flgs.— CouES, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 241, footnote; Check List, 2d ed., 

 1882, no. 115.— PuEDiE, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 60 (Bosque Co., 

 Texas).— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 77 (Comal Co., Texas; 

 habits).- RiDGWAY, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 106.— Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 139.— Brown, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club,vii, 1882, 36 

 (Boerne, s. w. Texas; habits, etc.).— Sharps, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 

 295, 647.— Nbhrling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 225. 



Dmdroica chrysoparia Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.,ix, 1886, 137 (Tezui- 

 tlan, Puebla, Dec.).— American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, 

 no. 666.— Lloyd, Auk, iv, 1887, 296 (Tom Green Co., Texas, Apr., 1 spec. ).— 

 Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 253 (Texas localities) .—Beckham, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1888, 686 (Leon Springs, Texas).— Attwater, Auk, ix, 

 1892, 341 (20 miles n. w. of San Antonio, Texas; also Medina, Bandera, Kerr, 

 Kendall, and Comal counties; habits). 



D[mdrmca] chrysoparia Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 509; 2d ed., 1896, 

 509, 608. 



Dmdroica chrysopareia Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 183, 267.— Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 260, pi. 12, fig. 6. 



Dmdroeca chrysopareia Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Ak. FiJrh. Stockh., xxvi, 1870, 

 610 (monogr. ). 



Dendra:ca chrysopareia Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 93 (San Antonio, Texas) . — Coues, 

 Check List, 1873, no. 74. 



IDendrceca'] chrysopareia Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 98. 



[Dendrceca} chrysoparia Sclatee and Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 9. 



D[endrffica] chrysoparia Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed, 1884, 300. 



[Mnioiilta'] chrysopareia Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 241, no. 3494. 



DENDROICA OCCIDENTALIS (Townsend). 

 HERUIT WARBLER. 



Admit male in spring and summer. — Forehead, crown, and whole 

 side of head, down to and including malar region and sides of neck, 

 clear lemon or canary yellow, the crown usually more or less spotted 

 or flecked with black; occiput black,^ or mainlj?^ black, the feathers 

 yellow basally; hindneck streaked with black and grayish olive-green, 

 in varying relative proportion (sometimes nearly uniform black); back, 

 scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts gray, usually more or less 

 tinged with olive-green, more or less broadly streaked with black (the 

 black streaks narrower, sometimes obsolete, on rump) ; wings and tail 

 black with light gray edgings, the middle and greater wing-coverts 

 broadly tipped with white, forming two distinct bars across wing; 

 inner webs of two outermost rectrices extensively white, this occupy- 

 ing most of the web on the first and about the - terminal half on the 

 second, the third rectrix usually with a white longitudinal spot or 



' Occasionally the yellow of the crown extends over the occiput, in which case the 

 hindneck is black. 



