BIRDS OV NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 709 



WILSONIA MICROCEPHALA Ridgway. 

 SMALL-HEADED WARBLEE. 



Olive-green above, yellowish beneath, the wing with two whitish 

 bands and inner webs of lateral rectrices partly white. 



Adult male m. — "Upper parts dull olive-yellow; the wings dusky 

 brown, edged with lighter; the greater and lesser [i. e., middle] coverts 

 tipped with white; the lower parts dirty white, stained with dull yellow, 

 particularly on the upper parts of the breast; the tail dusky brown, 

 the two exterior feathers marked like those of many others, with a 

 spot of white on the inner vanes; head remarkablj' small; bill broad 

 at the base, furnished with liristles, and notched near the tip; legs dark 

 brown; feet yellowish; eye dark hazel.'" Total length, 127; extent of 

 wings, 209.5. 



Pennsylvania and New Jersey; also, according to Audubon, Ken- 

 tucky. 



1 am unable to satisfactorily dispose of this hypothetical species 

 by reference to any other, the peculiar combination of characters 

 indicated in the original description, quoted above, being shared by 

 no other bird to my knowledge.^ 



Mmdcapa minuia (not of Gmelin) Wilson, Am. Orn., vi, 1812, 62, pi. 50, fig. 5 

 (New Jersey, etc.). — Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, 1824, 179. — 

 NuTTALL, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 296. — Audubon, Orn. Biog., v, 

 1839, 291, pi. 434, fig. 2; Synopsis, 1839, 44; Birds Am., oct. ed., i, 1840, 238, 

 pi. 67.— (?)Peabody, Rep. Orn. Ma.s8., 18.39, 296 (Massachusetts).— (?) Put- 

 nam, Proc. Essex Inst., i, 1856, 226. 

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

 Wilaouia minuta Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 23. — Allen, Proc. Essex 

 -Inst., iv, 1864, 83; Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 577.^Ribgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 iii, 1880, 174, 234.— Stejneger, Auk, i, 1884, 231. 

 Setophaga minuta Richardson, Rep. Brit. Assoc, for 1836 (1837), 172. — (?) Hoy, 



Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1853, 309 (Wisconsin). 

 [Setophaga] minuta Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 244, no. 3537. 

 Myiodioctes minutus Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 293; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 212; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 241.— Turnbull, Birds E. 

 Penn., 1869, 53 (Phila. ed., p. 42).— Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, i, 1874, 316, pi. 16, fig. 2.— Brewer, Proc. Best. Soc. N. H., xvii, 

 1875, 440 (Wenham, Massachusetts).— Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, 

 no. 126.— Maynard, Birds E. N. Am., 1882, 521.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., X, 1885, 431, footnote. 

 Myiodioetesf minutus Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 326 (synonymy; crit.). 

 Musdcapa or Myiodioctes ''minuta" Coues, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1868, 275. 

 Slyhania] minvXa Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 527. 



Syhania pumilia [not Sylvia pumilia Vieillot, 1807) Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and 

 Can., 2d ed., i, 1840, 334 (cites Si/li'ia pumilia Vieillot' and Musicapa minuta 

 Wilson). 



' Wilson's original description. 



'See Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 293; Coues, Birds Col. Val., 326. 



^Sylvia pumilia Vieillot (Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 39, pi. 100) I am unable to 

 identify with any American bird; certainly it is not the same as Musdcapa minuta 

 Wilson. 



