diff --git a/src/services/navigationBar.ts b/src/services/navigationBar.ts
index 9051ee80399..5ffcc6e1b6a 100644
--- a/src/services/navigationBar.ts
+++ b/src/services/navigationBar.ts
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ module ts.NavigationBar {
                         forEach((<BindingPattern>node).elements, visit);
                         break;
                     case SyntaxKind.VariableDeclaration:
-                        if (isBindingPattern(node)) {
+                        if (isBindingPattern((<VariableDeclaration>node).name)) {
                             visit((<VariableDeclaration>node).name);
                             break;
                         }
diff --git a/tests/cases/fourslash/scriptLexicalStructureBindingPatterns.ts b/tests/cases/fourslash/scriptLexicalStructureBindingPatterns.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b3141de5720
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/cases/fourslash/scriptLexicalStructureBindingPatterns.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+/// <reference path='fourslash.ts'/> 
+////var foo, {}
+////var bar, []
+verify.getScriptLexicalStructureListCount(3); // global (1) + variable declarations (2)