Belly vermilion or carmine red. Lateral tail-feathers, including their tips, white. Sexes similar.
Entirely lustrous black, including head and neck. No vertex spot. A white patch on the wings … picta.[60]
Plumbeous-ash, including head and neck. A chestnut-brown vertex spot. No white on wings … miniata.[61]
Setophaga ruticilla, Swains.
AMERICAN REDSTART.
Motacilla ruticilla, Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, 186 (Catesby, Car. tab. 67). Muscicapa ruticilla, Linn.; Gmelin; Vieillot; Wils.; Bon.; Aud. Orn. Biog. I, pl. xl. Setophaga rut. Swains. Zoöl. Jour. III, 1827, 358.—Bon.; Aud. Birds Am.—Sclater, P. Z. S. (Ecuador, Bogota, Cordova, Oaxaca, City of Mexico).—Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 12 (Guatemala).—Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 297; Rev. 256.—Max.; Sallé, P. Z. S. 1857 (St. Domingo).—Newton, Ibis, 1859, 143 (St. Croix; winter).—Cab. Jour. 1856, 472 (Cuba); 1860, 325 (Costa Rica).—Gundlach, Ib. 1861, 326 (Cuba).—Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. VII, 1859 (Bahamas).—Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Lyc. 1861, 322 (Panama R. R.).—Samuels, 249. Sylvania rut. Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 291 (type of genus). Motacilla flavicauda, Gmelin, I, 1788, 997 (♀).
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