Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Volume 12 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ... of the Philadelphia Academy is a specimen (without locality) which differs from the common form of S. ornata in having a decided chestnut brown patch on the vertex, the anterior feathers in which are tipped slightly with black. The forehead (broadly), the whole side of the head to just behind the eye, and the entire under parts are rich yellowish-orange. In some respects this bird agrees better with S. ruficoronata, of Kaup, than the one referred to above. 1858, 298, pi. lxxvii, fig. 2.--Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, 1889, 12 (Guatemala). Aluscicapa leucomus, Oieadd, Birds Texas, 1841, pi. vi, fig. 1.--Sclater, P. Z. S. 1855, 66. Uab. All Mexico and Guatemala. General color, including sides of body, lustrous black. Eyelids, a large patch on the wing, involving the greater and middle coverts, the edges of the secondaries, the inside of wings, axillars, crissum, tibiae, outer tail feather except at base, and a diminishing space on the second and third, white. Middle of breast and abdomen carmine red. Wings and tail equal. The white of the crissal feathers is confined to the tips, the rest being black, Bometimes showing in the white. The fourth tail feather sometimes lias a Blight white tip; the second feather is almost entirely white. I have seen no specimen marked as the female of this beautiful species, but that sex probably differs only in a less intense coloration, and more restricted amount of white. There is no appreciable difference between Mexican and Guatemalan skins. Length (34,020), 5.00; wing, 2.70; tail, 2.70; tarsus, .65 This species differs in form from S. miniata in longer wings and shorter tail--the two being about equal, instead of the tail being considerably the longer. The tarsi of this species are also shorter. Setophaga multicolor, Bon., f..