262 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Sialia cumicoides (Bechstein). Mountain Bluebird. [768.] 



Moiadlla s. Sylvia Cumicoides "Borkh.", Bechstein, in Latham, Allgem. 

 Ueb. Vogel, III, Pt. ii, 1798, 546 (pi. 121). (Virginien = Western 

 America.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Canadian and locally in the upper Transition zones 

 from southern Yukon, northwestern British Columbia, central Alberta, central 

 Saskatchewan, and southwestern Manitoba south to the mountains of southern 

 California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Chihuahua, and from the Cascade 

 Range and Sierra Nevada to southwestern North Dakota and western Ne- 

 braska. Winters from California and Colorado south to Guadalupe Island, 

 Lower California, and Sonora, and east to Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. 

 Casual at Great Slave Lake; accidental at Fort Franklin, Great Bear Lake. 



Genus OENANTHE Vieillot. 



Oenanthe Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 43. Type, by monotypy, Turdus 

 leucurus Latham = T. leucurus Gmelin. 



Oenanthe oenanthe oenanthe (Linnaeus). European Wheatear. [765.] 



Motacilla Oenanthe Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 186. (in Europae 

 apricis lapidosis = Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds from the British Isles, Scandinavian Peninsula, central 

 Europe, and high mountains of southern Europe east to northern and east- 

 central Alaska and south to the mouth of the Yukon and the Pribilof Islands. 

 Winters southward to India and eastern Africa. 



Oenanthe oenanthe leucorhoa (Gmelin). Greenland Wheatear. [765a.] 



Motacilla leucorhoa Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 966. (in fluvium 

 Senegal = Senegal River.) 



Range. — ^Breeds in the Arctic Zone from Ellesmere Island and Boothia 

 Peninsula east to Greenland and Iceland and south to northern Quebec. 

 Winters in West Africa, migrating through the British Isles and France. Cas- 

 ual in migration or winter in Keewatin, Ontario, New Brunswick, Quebec, 

 New York, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Bermuda, and Cuba. 



[Additional races of 0. oenanthe occur in northern Africa, Turkestan, and 

 Spain.] 



Genus CYANOSYLVIA Brehm. 



Cyano-sylvia Brehm, Isis vouOken, XXI, 1828, Heft viii (Aug.), col. 920. 

 Type, by monotypy, Motacilla suecica Linnaeus. 



Cyanosylvia suecica (Linnaeus). Red-spotted Bluethroat. [764.] 



Motacilla suecica Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 187. (in Europae 

 alpinis = Sweden.) 



