_Motacilla blackburniæ_, GMELIN, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 977. _Sylvia bl._ LATH.; WILSON, III, pl. xxiii.—NUTT.; AUD. Orn. Biog. II, V, pl. cxxxv, cccxcix. _Sylvicola bl._ JARD.; RICH.; AUD. Birds Am. II, pl. lxxxvii. _Rhimanphus bl._ CAB. Mus. Hein. 1850, 19. _Dendroica bl._ BAIRD, Birds N. Am. 1858, 274; Rev. 189.—SCLATER & SALVIN, Ibis, 1859, 11 (Guatemala).—SCLATER, P. Z. S. 1859, 363 (Xalapa); IB. 1860, 64 (Ecuador).—IB. Catal. 1861, 30, no. 187 (Pallatanga and Nanegal, Ecuador).—SAMUELS, 227.—SUNDEVALL, Ofv. 1869, 611.—DRESSER, Ibis, 1865, 478. _? Motacilla chrysocephala_, GMELIN, I, 1788, 971 (_Figuier orangé et F. étranger_, BUFF. V, 313, pl. lviii, fig. 3, Guiana). _Sylvia parus_, WILS. V, pl. xliv, fig. 3.—AUD. Orn. Biog. II, pl. cxxxiv. _Sylvicola parus_, AUD. Birds Am. II, pl. lxxxiii. _Sylvia lateralis_, STEPH. _? Motacilla incana_, GMEL. I, 1788, 976. _Sylvia incana_, LATH.; VIEILL. _? Sylvia melanorhoa_, VIEILL. Nouv. Dict. XI, 1817, 180 (Martinique).—IB. Encycl. Méth. II, 444. Localities quoted: _Bogota_, SCLATER, P. Z. S. 1855, 143. _Panama_, LAWR. Ann. N. Y. Lyc. VII, 62. _Costa Rica_, CAB. Jour. 1860, 328. _Bahamas_, BRYANT, Bost. Pr. VII, 1859. _Veragua_, SALVIN. _Orizaba_ (winter; rare), SUMICHRAST. SP. CHAR. Upper parts nearly uniform black, with a whitish scapular stripe and a large white patch in the middle of the wing-coverts. An oblong patch in the middle of the crown, and the entire side of the head and neck (including a superciliary stripe from the nostrils), the chin, throat, and forepart of the breast, bright orange-red. A black stripe from the commissure passing around the lower half of the eye, and including the ear-coverts; with, however, an orange crescent in it, just below the eye, the extreme lid being black. Rest of under parts white, strongly tinged with yellowish-orange on the breast and belly, and streaked with black on the sides. Outer three tail-feathers white, the shafts and tips dark brown; the fourth and fifth spotted much with white; the other tail-feathers and quills almost black. _Female_ similar; the colors duller; the feathers of the upper parts with olivaceous edges. Length, 5.50; wing, 2.83; tail, 2.25. HAB. Eastern Province of United States; Eastern Mexico, and south to Bogota and Ecuador; Bahamas alone of West Indies with certainty. Autumnal males resemble the females. They have two white bands instead of one; the black stripes on the sides are larger; under parts yellowish; the throat yellowish, passing into purer yellow behind. Autumnal young birds have the same pattern of coloration, but the dark portions are dull grayish-umber, with the streaks very obsolete, and the light parts dull buffy-white, tinged with yellow on the jugulum; there is neither clear black, bright yellow, nor pure white on the plumage, except the latter on the wing-bands and tail-patches.