206 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus SAYORNIS Gray. 



Sayornis Gray, Catal. Genera and Subgenera Birds, 1855, 146. Type, by 

 orig. desig., Musdcapa say a Bonaparte. 



Sayornis phoebe (Latham) . Eastern Phoebe. [4.56.] 



Musdcapa Phoebe Latham, Index Orn., II, 1790, 489. (Noveboraco 

 = New York.) 



Range. — Breeds from central western Mackenzie, central Manitoba, 

 central Ontario, southern Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince 

 Edward Island south to northeastern New Mexico, central Texas, northern 

 Mississippi, and the highlands of Georgia. Winters in the United States chiefly 

 south of lat. 37° (casually to Pennsylvania), south to Vera Cruz and Oaxaca. 

 In migration casually west to eastern Colorado and Wyoming; accidental in 

 California, Lower California, and Cuba. 



Sayornis nigricans nigricans (Swainson). Black Phoebe. [458.] 



Tyrannula nigricans Swainson, Philos. Mag., n. s., I, No. 5, May, 1827, 

 367. (Tableland of Mexico.) 

 Range. — Breeds in the Upper and Lower Austral zones from southwestern 

 Oregon through California west of the Sierra Nevada and east through southern 

 California and Arizona to southern Utah, southern New Mexico, and central 

 Texas, and through Mexico (except Lower California, the Gulf coast, and Yuca- 

 tan) to Chiapas. Casual in winter to Costa Rica. 



Sayornis nigricans salictaria Grinnell. San Quintin Phoebe. [458a.] 



Sayornis nigricans salictaria Grinnell, Auk, XLIV, No. 1, Jan. 5, 1927, 



68. (San Jose, lat. 31°, 2500 ft. altitude. Lower California.) 



Range. — Chiefly in the Upper Austral Zone of northern Lower California 

 from about lat. 30° north to the United States border and also in southern 

 Arizona. 



Sayornis nigricans brunnescens Grinnell. San Lucas Phoebe. [4586.] 



Sayornis nigricans brunnescens Grinnell, Auk, XLIV, No. 1, Jan. 5, 1927, 



69. (San Jose del Cabo, Lower California.) 



Range. — Cape district of Lower California north to about lat. 29°. 



Sayornis saya saya (Bonaparte). Say's Phoebe. [457.] 



Musdcapa saya Bonaparte, Amer. Orn., I, 1825, 20 (pi. 11, fig. 3). 

 (Arkansaw River, about twenty miles from the Rocky Mountains = 

 near Pueblo, Colorado.) 

 Range. — Breeds from central Alaska, northwestern Mackenzie, northern 

 Alberta, central Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and central North Dakota south to 



