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Though a common bird during the winter season in the West Indies, D. ccerulescens 

 has but a slender claim to a place in the Central-American fauna. The only example 

 from that country that ever came under our notice was killed, in November 1859, near 

 Coban, and is still in our collection. This bird, a female, was at first supposed to be 

 probably the same as Sylvicola pannosa ^^ of Jamaica ; but it was afterwards ^ called 

 B. canadensis, both of which names are now known to apply to B. ccerulescens. The 

 record of the capture of this Central-American specimen has been overlooked by the 

 careful compilers of the literature relating to this species ^ 5, all of whom state that the 

 bird is not known in Mexico or Central America. 



A full account of B. ccerulescens in its summer quarters is given by Brewer ^ ; and 

 Dr. Cones has brought together its synonymy and the references to its literature with 

 his usual care ^. 



b. Al(B conspicue alho notatce ; remiges unicolores ; uropygiumflavum. 



a'. Vertex flavus. 

 4. Dendrceca coronata. 



Motacilla coronata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 333 '- 



Sylvia coronata, Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. Vog. p. 2; cf. J. f. Orn. 1863^ p. 57 ^ 



Rhimamphus coronatus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 291 \ 



Deridrceca coronata, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 363*; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 11'; P.Z. S. 1864, 



p. 347 \ 1870, p. 836 ' ; Baird, Rev. Am. B. i. p. 187 * ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 6 ', 



ix. p. 94 " ; Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 15 ^^ ; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. 



p. 547 '^ ; V. Prantzius, J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 293 ^^; Duges, La Nat. i. p. 140 '*; Baird, Brew. 



& Eidgw. N. Am. B. i. p. 227 1^; Gundl. Orn. Cut. p. 65 "; Coues, B. Col. Vail. i. p. 278 17. 



Supra caeruleo-cinerea, capitis lateribus nigris, supercUiis albis, dorso nigro striato ; vertice, pectoris lateribus et 

 uropygio Isete flavis ; subtus alba, pectore et hypochondriis nigro dense striatis ; alis albo bifasciatis ; cauda 

 albo utrinque maoulata ; rostro et pedibus nigris. Long, tota 5, alae 3, caudae 2-4, rostri a rictu 0-5, tarsi 

 0'75. (Descr. exempli ex Panama. Mus. nostr.)^ 



$ mari simUis, sed corpore supra fuscescente nee cinereo et coloribus magis indistiactis distinguenda. (Descr. 

 exempli ex Panama. Mus. nostr.) 



Hah, NoETH Amekica, chiefly in the Eastern province, but in the north across the conti- 

 nent to the Pacific ^^ i^. — Mexico, Guanajuato {Buges i*), Cordova {Salle % Mirador 

 [Sartorius ^), Jalapa {de Oca *}, Orizaba (Sumichrast ^^), Alvarado and Temascal- 

 tepec {Beppe ^, Mus. Berol.), Santa Efigenia, Tehuantepec {Sumichrast ^^) ; Bkitish 

 Honduras, Belize {Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala, Escuintla, Duenas, San Geronimo, 

 Coban, Cahabon {0. 8. & F. B. G.); Hotoubas, San Pedro {Q. M. Whitely'<); 

 Costa Kica {v. Frantzius ^^), Angostura {Carmiol ^^) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 

 {Arce), line of railway {M'Leannan^^}. — Antilles, Cuba^^, Jamaica s, &c. 



Bendrceca coronata is a common bird during the autumn and winter months throughout 



