530 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



very little white at tip (sometimes with none at all) ; white edgings 

 to secondaries much narrower. Sab. Highlands of Guatemala and 

 extreme southern portion of Mexico (Chiapas). 



S. picta guatemalse Sharps. Sharpe's Redstart. 1 



b*. Adult : Above dark plumbeous, or slate-gray, the forehead, sides of crown, 



lores, chin, and throat black; crown with a patch of chestnut; sides 



and flanks slate-gray ; under tail-coverts dark slate-color, broadly tipped 



with white ; breast and belly vermilion-red, varying to orange-red. 



Young : " General color above sooty black, the wing-coverts like the 



back, edged with rusty brown at the tips . . . head a little more dusky 



than the back ; sides of face and throat dull ashy, washed with brown 



on the chin ; lower throat and sides of body dark chocolate-brown, the 



abdominal feathers paler and more chestnut and with whitish bases ; 



under tail-coverts pale fulvous." (Sharpe.) Length about 5.00-5.50, 



wing 2.30-2.70, tail 2.50-3.00. 



c 1 . White of tail more extended, always present on third feather as a broad 



terminal spot, and often present on tip of fourth ; breast and belly 



always (?) pure vermilion or scarlet. Sab. Highlands of Mexico, 



north to southern Texas ? 



689. S. miniata Swains. Red-bellied Redstart. 

 &. "White of tail more restricted, reduced to a narrow terminal spot (some- 

 times wanting altogether) on third feather and never found on 

 fourth ; breast and belly usually more orange-red, sometimes of 

 a decided orange tint. Sab. Highlands of Guatemala. 



S. miniata flammea Kaup. Kaup's Redstart. 3 



Genus CARDELLINA Du Bus. (Page 483, pi. CXVIIL, fig. 3.) 



Species. 



Adult (sexes alike) : Forehead, lores, cheeks, chin, throat, and sides of neck rich 

 vermilion-red, sometimes inclining to carmine; crown and ear-coverts deep black; 

 occiput whitish ; upper parts uniform ash-gray, the rump white, and middle wing- 

 coverts indistinctly tipped with same ; lower parts (except throat) whitish. Young : 

 Whole top and sides of head dull umber-brown ; chin, throat, chest, breast, and sides 

 of neck paler and more tinged with grayish ; posterior lower parts dull white ; back 

 and scapulars grayish brown ; rump dull white ; middle and greater wing-coverts 

 conspicuously tipped with bufly. Young in first autumn : Black of crown and ear- 

 coverts obsolete or very indistinct, and red parts merely indicated by a slight 

 tingeing of red on a smoky grayish ground ; upper parts washed with brown ; 

 otherwise much like adult. Length about 5.00-5.50, wing 2.53-2.80, tail 2.32-2.60. 



1 Setophaga picta, Sw., a. guatemalte Sharpe, p. xii.; [Setophaga picta] Subsp. a. Setophaga guatemalm, 

 and Setophaga gualemalte, p. 417 (sub. fig.), Sharps, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. 1885. 



* Setophaga flammea Kaup, P. Z. S. 1851, 50 ; [Setophaga miniata] Subsp. a. Setophaga flammea Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. 1885, 419. 



