BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 719 



Virginia, breeding in spruce belt).— Fleming, Auk, xviii, 1901, 44 (Mus- 



koka, etc., n. w. Ontiirio, common summer resid. ). 

 Sylvia parJalina Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 179 (cites 



M. canadensis Wilson) ; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 79.— NurrALL, Man. Orn. 



U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 372. 

 Sybdcola pardalina Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 22. — Brewer, Proc. 



Best. Soc. N. H., vi, 1856, 5 (descr. nest and egga). 

 [^fl|iodiocte8] pardalina Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 315. 

 Myodiodespardalina Fr&tten, Trans. Ills. Agric. Soc, 1855, 601. 

 Muscicapa bonaparlii Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 27, pi. 5 (St. Francisville, 



Louisiana, Aug. 13;=young in autumn). 

 iSelaphaga bonapartii Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor. -Am., ii, 1831, 225, 



pi. 47. 

 [Seloplmga] bonaparlii Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 244, no. 3538. 

 Wilsonia bonapartii Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 23. — Stejneger, 



Auk, i, 1884, 231. 

 Myiodioctes bonapartii Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 49; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 



17, pi. 73.— Baihd, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., i.x, 1858, 295; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 



1859, no. 215. 

 Sylvania bonapartii Nutpall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 2d ed., i, 1-840, 332. 

 Selophaga nigro-cincta Lafresnaye, Rev. ZooL, iv, Oct., 1843, 292 (Colombia); 



1844, 79. 

 Myiodiodes cserulescens (lapsus for canadensis) Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



no. 4, 1876, 16 (Barrio, Oaxaca; Guichicovi, Chiapas). 



Genus CARDELLINA DuBus. 



CardeKnaDuBus, Esquis.Orn., 1850, pi. 25. (Type, C. amicla DaBua,=Muscicapa 

 rubrifrons Giraud. ) 



Medium-sized "fly-catching" Mniotiltidse with the bill short and 

 stout (basal depth nearly equal to basal width, exposed culmen not 

 longer than middle toe without claw), the culmen decidedly curved; 

 rictal bristles reaching but little beyond nostrils; wing-tip equal to 

 tarsus; tail even; rump and under parts of body white, back gray, fore- 

 head and throat red, crown and auricular region black. 

 Bill not more than half as long as head, deeper than broad at anterior 

 • margin of nostrils, nearly as deep as broad at base; culmen decidedly 

 curved; maxillary tomium with subterminal notch indistinct; gonys 

 faintly convex. Nostril rather large, obliquely oval, occupying about 

 lower anterior half of nasal fossse, largely concealed by latero-f rontal 

 feathering. Rictal bristles moderately developed, the longest reach- 

 ing but little beyond nostrils, when directed foiward. Wing long, 

 rather pointed (seventh primary longest, eighth and sixth but little 

 shorter, the ninth intermediate between sixth and fifth); wing-tip long, 

 equal to tarsus. Tail decidedly shorter than wing but longer than dis- 

 tance from bend of wing to tip of secondaries, even, the rectrices broad 

 and rounded at tips. Tarsus about one-fourth as long as wing or 

 slightly more, its scutella indistinct or obsolete on outer side; middle 

 toe, with claw, much shorter than tarsus; basal phalanx of middle toe 

 united for nearly its entire length to outer toe, for about half its 

 length to inner toe. 



