sylvicolidjE—setophagin^: fly-catching warblers. 315 
feathered specimens have the head plain red, the cap sooty-black. There is much difference in 
the character of the white on the nape. Length 5.00: wing 2.66; tail 2.50; tarsus 0.66; 
bill 0.33, quite different in shape from that of Setophaga: Young, newly fledged : Ash of upper 
parts much shaded with brown, and white of the under parts the same. Rump snowy-white, 
as in the adult, but the nuchal patch obscure or inappreciable. Wings and tail as in the adult, 
but with browner edgings. Black cap restricted to top of head, and of a dull sooty cast. Red 
parts of the adult, including those parts of the side of the head which are occupied in the adult 
with the extension of the black cap, dull grayish-brown, tinged or irregularly slashed with red, 
especially on the forehead and throat. Bill light brown ; feet pale. Arizona, and doubtless 
New Mexico and Texas ; common in the pineries of Southern Arizona. 
SETO'PHAGA. (Gr. arjs, a-rjTos, ses, setos, an insect ; (^ayw, phago, I eat.) Redstarts. 
Bill thoroughly Muscicapine in depression and breadth at base, where wider than high, 
straightness of superior and lateral outlines, and development of rictal bristles, which reach far 
beyond the nostrils. Wings pointed, not shorter than tail ; 2d, 3d, and 4th quills nearly equal 
and longest ; 1st intermediate between 4th and 5th. Tail rather long and fan-shaped, with 
broad flat feathers, widening at their ends. Feet slender, with long tarsi indistinctly scutellate 
externally, and short toes, the middle one without its claw being about half as long as the 
tarsus. Coloration indeterminate. Habits arboricole and Muscicapine. The genus has been 
made to cover considerable variety in form among the numerous species of Fly-catching Warblers 
of subtropical and tropical America, where it is best represented. The diagnosis, drawn up 
from S. ruticilla, may require some little modification in order to its applicability even to S. 
picta. All the extralimital species differ in the shorter and more rounded wing and other char- 
acters. S. ruticilla is the only species in which the sexes are decidedly dissimilar in color : 
even in S. picta, the nearest ally, they are substantially alike ; and in all the rest, in which the 
coloration is very various, there is no obvious difference between the sexes. Species of Seto- 
phaga (including Myiohorus and Eutlilypis), to the number of twelve or more, are recognized 
by late authors. S. ruticilla is the only one that is generally distributed in North America. 
Analysis of Species. 
cf Black, white, and orange ; ? brown, white, and yellow ruticilla 1.52 
cf $ Black, white, and carmine-red picta 151 
S. pic'ta. (Lat. picta, painted. Fig. 176.) Painted Fly-catching Warbler. $ 9 : 
Lustrous black ; middle of breast and belly carmine-red ; eyelids, a large patch on the wings 
formed by the greater and middle coverts, broad edging 
of inner secondaries, edging of inner webs of primaries 
toward the base, lining of wings, nearly all the outer tail- 
feather, aad a diminishing space on the next two or three, 
together with the crissum, white. Bill and feet black. 
Length 5 inches; wing and tail each 2.75; tarsus 0.66; 
bill 0.33-0.40. 9 not particularly difterent from the 
though rather less richly colored. In poor plumages, the 
black is not so lustrous ; red of the belly less extensive and 
of a more bricky-red tone ; white of the wings and tail more 
restricted. Very young : Dull black, or only slightly lus- p,^. _ p^j^ted Fly-catching 
trous ; white nearly as in the adult ; spot on lower eyelid, Warbler. (Ad nat. del. H. W. Elliott.) 
patch on wing, outer edge of first primary only, outer edges of secondaries, inside of wings, 
axillars, crissum, tibiae, outer tail-feather except at base, and a diminishing space on the second 
and third, white. Arizona and N. Mexico, and doubtless also Texas ; common in Santa Rita 
Mts. of Arizona. Nest found ''under a projecting stone, in a bank near a stream" ; large, flat, 
shallow, of bark, weed-fibre, grasses and a few hairs. Eggs 3, 0.65 X 0.50, white, speckled 
and wreathed with pale reddish-brown. 
