642 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Henicociehla major Oabasis, Journ. fiirOrn., 1857, 240 (Cuba). 

 Enicodchla major Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 306 (Cuba). 

 Seiurus novseboracemis (not MotaciUa noveboracerms Gmelin) Audubon, Synopsis, 



1839, 93, part. 

 (?) Siurus noveboracerms Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 477, part (Medina E., Texas, "all 



the summer," fide Heermann). 

 (?) Seiurus colomUanm Lesson, Descr. Mam. et Ois., 1847, 294 (Colombia). 



SEIURUS NOVEBORACENSIS NOVEBORACENSIS (Gmelin). 

 WAIER-THBTTSH, 



Adults {sexes alike).— Above plain olive; a broad superciliary stripe 

 of buff, extending from nostril to sides of nape; a triangular spot of 

 dusky olive in front of eye, and a broad postocular streak of the same; 

 a crescentic mark of light buffy on lower eyelid; suborbital and auric- 

 ular regions streaked with olive and yellowish or pale buffy; broad 

 malar stripe and under parts pale yellow (primrose yellow to straw 

 yellow) — rarely nearly white — the chest, sides, and flanks more or less 

 broadly streaked with dark sooty olive (sometimes nearly black), the 

 lower throat with shorter triangular or wedge-shaped marks, the upper 

 throat usually with small triangular spots or flecks, of the same; under 

 tail-coverts with concealed portion extensively olive or grayish olive; 

 bill dusky brown, the mandible paler, especially in winter; iris brown; 

 legs and feet clear brown (in dried skins). 



Yoiong, first phomage. — Above olive, the feathers with a subter- 

 minal bar of dusky and a terminal bar of buff, producing a conspicu- 

 ous transversely mottled appearance; wings and tail as in adults, but 

 middle and greater wing-coverts tipped with buff, forming two nar- 

 row bands across wing; superciliary stripe less distinct than in adult, 

 finely streaked with dusky; .whole throat, chest, and sides of breast 

 heavily streaked with dusky or dark soot}'^, on a pale buff-yellowish 

 ground, the streaks much less sharply defined than in adults; rest of 

 under parts pale straw or primrose yellow, the sides and flanks mottled 

 or clouded with dusky. 



Adult TOffl^e.— Length (skins), 125.5-1-12.7 (135.1); wing, 75.4:-80 

 (76.7); tail, 45-53.6 (61.8); exposed culmen, 11.9-14 (12.7); tarsus, 

 19.8-22.3 (21.3); middle toe, 12.9-14 (13.5).' 



Adidt female.— l^eugih (skins), 118.4-138.7 (130.5); wing, 68.3-75.7 

 (72.6); tail, 45-52.1 (49.5); exposed culmen, 10.9-14.7 (12.7); tarsus, 

 20.3-21.6 (21.1); middle toe, 12.4^13.7 (13.2).' 



Eastern North America; north to Davis Inlet, Newfoundland, and 

 shores of Hudson Bay ; ' breeding southward to northern New England, 

 mountains of Pennsylvania (Clearfield, Elk, Cambria, and Lycoming 



' Nine specimens. 

 ^ Eight specimens. 



' Breeding birds from the western side of Hudson Bay are intermediate between 

 this form and S. n. noiabUis. 



