BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 571 



Tming male, nestling plumage. — Above uniform brownish gray 

 (deep drab-gray), the pileum divided longitudinally by a broad median 

 stripe of grayish white; sides of head (including a broad superciliary 

 stripe) and entire under parts white; a narrow postocular stripe of deep 

 drab-gray; wings as in adults, but edgings greenish rather than bluish. 



[Autumnal and winter adults do not differ from spring and summer 

 specimens except in being more highly colored. This is more evident 

 in females, in which the superciliary stripe and under parts are often 

 entirely pale sulphur or primrose yellow. 1 have not seen specimens 

 which 1 am able to identify as young, of either sex, in first autumn or 

 winter; possibly some of the yellower supposed adult females are in 

 reality immature birds.] 



Eastern United States, chiefly west of the Alleghenies; breeding 

 northward to eastern Nebraska (Omaha), Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michi- 

 gan (as far as Mackinac Island), Ontario (Drummondville, etc.), western 

 and central New York (Niagara, Oneida, and Monroe counties), east- 

 ward to eastern Maryland (Baltimore County) and western Virginia 

 (Natural Bridge), southward to Tennessee, Louisiana (Franklin and 

 St. Tammany parishes), etc.; casually or irregularly northward to 

 Connecticut (Suflield; Seymour), Rhode Island (Providence; Paw- 

 tucket), Long Island (Crow Hill), and New Jersey (Morris County); 

 west regularly to edge of the Great Plains, occasionally to Rocky 

 Mountains (Denver, Colorado; Rio Mimbres, New Mexico). In winter 

 south to Cuba and Grand Cayman, and through eastern Mexico, Central 

 America, and western South America (chiefly east of the Andes) to 

 central Peru and Bolivia (Naipiri). 



Sylvia cerulea (not Sylvia cierlea Latham, 1790) Wilson, Am. Orn., ii, 1810, 141, 

 pi. 17, fig. 5 (e. Pennsylvania; coll. Peale Mus. ). 



Sylvia carulea Bonapaktb, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 193. — Licht- 

 ENSTBiN, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1830, 2 (seeCabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 

 37).— Thompson, Nat. Hist. Vermont, 1853, 82. 



Sylvicola cserulea Jardine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., i, 1832, 283; iii, 387.— Bona- 

 parte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 23.— Hoy, Ann. Rep. Smithson. Inst, for 

 1864 (1865), 438 (Missouri). 



[i^lvicoki] cjETutea Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 308. 



Sylvicolaccerulea Rich Anvso^s, Eep. Brit. Assoc, for 1836 (1837), 172.— Audubon, 

 Synopsis, 1889, 56; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 45, pi. 86.— Woodhousb, 

 Eep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and Col. E., 1853, 70 (common in Texas and 

 Creek and Cherokee countries) .—Hoy, Proo. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, 1853, 

 311 (Wisconsin).— Henry, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, 1855, 309 (Eio 

 Mimbres, New Mexico.).— Willis, Ann. Eep. Smithson. Inst, for 1858 

 (1859), 282 ("Nova Scotia.") 



Rhimamphus cxruleus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 18 (Bogota, Colom- 

 bia); 1858, 64 (EioNapo, e. Ecuador).— Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 

 177 (Cuba). 



Dendrmca cserulea Baird, Eep. Pacific E. E. Surv., ix, 1858, 280; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 201; Eeview Am. Birds, 1865, 191 (Coban, Guatemala; 

 Bogote, Colombia, etc.).— Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 326 (Cuba); 



