;^32 ]yiNIOTILTID^. 



Hah NOETH Ameeica, Eastern States ^^ '\ Texas i^.-Mexico, Jalapa [de Oca i^), Playa 

 Vicente (Boucard i«), Merida, Yucatan {Schott ^) ; Guatemala {Belattre ''), Duenas, 

 Coban \ Choctum, Telemans {0. S. & F. B. G.) ; Hotodeas, San Pedro {Q. M. 

 Wliitely^)- Costa KicaI^ (^. Frantzms^'), Gxeci^ and Barranca {Carmtol% 

 Angostura {Carmiol); Pai^ama, Volcan de Chiriqni, Chitra, Calovevora (^rc^ ">), 

 Santa Fe {Atg6 % Lion Hill (WLearman ' 3)._Bahama Islands i«. 

 Very little is known oi Bendroeca pennsylmnica in Mexico; for though both de Oca 

 and Boucard found it in the State of Vera Cruz " i«, Prof. Sumichrast omits to mention 

 it, nor do we find its name included in the lists of the birds of Western Mexico. In 

 Guatemala it is not a common species in the winter months, though we found it dis- 

 persed over a wide area,; but in Costa Eica and the adjoining State of Panama it is 

 abundant, judging from the number of specimens that have been sent us from there. 

 Here a large proportion of the emigrants from the north must pass the winter ; and in 

 seeking these countries from the Eastern States they omit to stop on any of the West-India 

 Islands on their route, with the exception of the Bahamas, where Bryant found this 

 bird 16. The line of the Panama railway seems to be the limit of its wanderings, as we 

 have no record of its passing into the southern continent. 



In the north its range extends almost exclusively to the Eastern States and Canada ^^, 

 and it breeds abundantly in New England 12. Its nest is described as being constructed 

 of strips of red-cedar bark, well lined with coarse hair, and placed in the fork of a 

 low bush four or five feet from the ground. The eggs are white, blotched and dotted 

 over the entire surface with profuse markings of lavender and dark purple intermixed 

 with lighter spots of reddish brown i^. 



For full references to the literature of the species Dr. Coues's work had best be 

 consulted ^^. 



9. Dendroeca castanea. 



Sylvia castanea, Wils. Am. Orn. ii. p. 97, t. 14. f. 4'. 



Dendroeca castanea, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 11' ) P. Z. S. 1864, p. 347'; 1879, p. 494*; Cassin, 



Pr. Ac. Phil. 1860, p. 193 ' ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 322 " ; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



no. 4, p. 15 '; Baird, Rev. Am. B. i. p. 189"; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 322° ; Baird, Brew. & 



Ridgw. N. Am. B. i. p. 251"; Coues, B. Col. VaU. i. p. 243 ^K 



Supra dorso medio nigro, plumis singulis pallido badio limbatis; uropygio cinereo, teotricibus supraoaudalibus 

 in medio nigris ; capite suinmo, gula tota et hypochondriis Isete badiis ; fronte et capitis lateribus nigris j 

 alis et Cauda fusco-nigris, cinereo limbatis, illis albo bifasciatis, hac in pogonio rectricum duarum externarum 

 interne plaga alba notata ; subtus abdomine medio albo vix badio tincto ; rostro corneo, pedibus corylinis. 

 Long, tota 4-6, alie 3, caudae 2*2, rostri a rictu 0'6, tarsi 0-7. (Descr. maris ex Veraguas in Statu Pana- 

 mensi. Mus. nostr.) 

 5 supra olivacea, dorso vix fusco striate ; superoiliis, genis et corpore subtus olivaceo-albis. (Descr. feminse ex. 

 Panama. Mus. nostr.) 



Hal. NoETH Ameeica, Eastern Province, north to Hudson's Bay 10 ".—Mexico, Tehuan- 



