BIEDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEBIOA. 7l7 



(52.6); exposed culmen, 9.9-11.1 (10.7); tarsus, 17.8-19 (18.3); middle 

 toe, 9.4-11.7 (10.7).^ 



Immature male in first autumn and tointer: — Quite similar in colora- 

 tion to the adult female. 



Immature female in first autumn and winter. — Similar to the adult 

 female and immature male, but upper parts more strongly tinged with 

 olive, and mai'kings on chest much less distinct, sometimes obsolete. 



Young., first plumage. — Above plain broccoli brown or drab, the 

 feathers ash gray beneath the surface; middle and greater wing-coverts 

 broadly tipped with buff, forming two distinct bands across wing; rem- 

 iges and rectrices brownish gray, with edges slightly paler; sides of 

 head and neck, chin, throat, chest, and sides of breast pale buffy brown; 

 rest of under parts pale straw or primrose yellow. 



Eastern North America; north to Newfoundland, southern Labi'ador 

 and Manitoba (Lake Winnipeg); west to eastern edge of the Great 

 Plains, casually to Colorado (Lincoln County, May 23); breeding south- 

 ward to Massachusetts (Winchendon; Berkshire County; Essex 

 County), central New York (Oneida County), southern Ontario, Mich- 

 igan (Mackinac Island), and Minnesota (St. Louis and Lake counties), 

 and southward through mountains of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West 

 Virginia to North Carolina (2,500 to 1,000 feet) ; in winter south through 

 eastern Mexico and Central America to Ecuador (numerous localities 

 and records) and Peru. 



[Mmckapa] canadensis Linnsus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 327 (based on Gohe- 

 mouche cendre de Canada, Muscicapa canadensis cinierea, Brisson, Orn. ii, 406, 

 pi. 39, fig.4).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat.,i, pt.ii, 1788, 937.— Latham, Index Orn., 

 ii, 1790, 484. 



Muscicapa canadensis Wilson, Am. Orn., iii, 1811, 100, pi. 26, fig. 2. — Stephens, 

 Shaw's Gen. Zool., x, 1817, 350.— Vieillot, Enc. M6th., ii, 1823, 810.— Bona- 

 parte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila.,ii,1824,178.— Audubon, Orn. Biog.,ii, 1834, 

 17, pi. 103. 



Setophaga canadensis Jardine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., i, 1832, 358. 



Sletophaga^ canadensis Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1846, 265. 



{Setophaga} conaderwis Gray, "Hand-list, i, 1869, 244, no. 3536. 



Myiodioctes canadensis AvDVBOi^, Synopsis, 1839, 49; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 

 14, pi. 72.— ScLATEH, Proc. Zool. See. Lond., 1854, 111 (Quijos, Ecuador); 1855, 

 143 (Bogota, Colombia); 1858, 64 (Kio Napo, e. Ecuador), 451 (Gualaquiza 

 andZamora, Ecuador); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 34 (Bogota).— Putnam, Proc. 

 Essex Inst., i, 1856, 206 (Massachusetts, breeding).— Bryant, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H., vi, 1857, 116 (Nova Scotia).— Baird, Eep. Pacific R. E. Surv., ix, 

 1858, 294; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 214; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 239.— 

 Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 11 (Guatemala).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., vii, 1862, 467 (Panama R. R. ) ; ix, 1868, 95 (Dota Mts., Costa Rica) .— 

 BoAHDMAN, Proc. Bost. Soc, ix, 1862, 125 (Maine, breeding).— Blakiston, 

 Ibis, 1863, 63 (Saskatchewan).— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 478 (Texas).— MoIl- 

 • wraith, Proc. Essex Inst. , v, 1866, 86 ( Hamilton, Ontario) .—Lawrence, Ann. 

 Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 95 (Dota, Costa Rica).— Frantzius, Journ. fur Orn., 1869, 



^ Seven specimens. 



