280 check-list of north american birds. 



Family COMPSOTHLYPIDAE. Wood Warblers. 



Genus MNIOTILTA Vieillot. 



Mniotilta Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 45. Type by monotypy, Figuier 

 varie, Buffon = Motacilla varia Linnaeus. 



Mniotilta varia (Linnaeus). Black and White Warbler. [636.] 



Motacilla varia Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 333. Based mainly 

 on Ficedula Dominicensis varia, Le Figuier vari^ de S. Domingue Brisson 

 Orn., Ill, 529. (in Jamaica, Dominica = Santo Domingo.) 



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

 northern Ontario, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick to eastern 

 Texas, Louisiana, central Alabama, and northern Georgia, west to South 

 Dakota and casually to Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado. Winters from Co- 

 lima and Nuevo Leon to Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela, and in Florida, the 

 Bahamas, and West Indies to Guadeloupe; casually in southern Texas, central 

 and southern California, and in southern Lower California. Accidental in 

 Washington and Bermuda. 



Genus PROTONOTARIA Baird. 



Proionotaria Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. and 

 Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, xix, xxxi, 235, 239. Type, by monotypy, 

 Motacilla citrea Boddaert. 



Protonotaria citrea (Boddaert). Prothonotary Warbler. [637.] 



Motacilla citrea Boddaert, Table PI. Enl., 1783, 44. Based on the 

 Figuier a ventre et tete jaunes de la Louisiane Daubenton, PI. Enl. 704, 

 fig. 2. (Louisiana.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Lower Austral Zone and along river bottoms of the 

 Upper Austral Zone from northeastern Nebraska, southeastern Minnesota, 

 southern Wisconsin, southern Michigan, Ohio, central Delaware, and eastern 

 Maryland (once in northern New Jersey) south to eastern Texas, southern 

 Alabama, and northern Florida. Winters from Nicaragua to Colombia and 

 casually in Venezuela and southern Mexico; but apparently crosses the Gulf in 

 migration and is not found in Mexico north of Campeche. Accidental in the 

 West Indies, casual north to New Jersey, New York, New England, Michigan, 

 Ontario, and New Brunswick, and in Arizona. 



Genus LIMNOTHLYPIS Stone. 



Limnothlypis Stone, Science, n.s., XL, No. 1018, July 3, 1914, 26. Type, 

 by orig. desig., Sylvia swainsonii Audubon. 



Limnothlypis swainsoni (Audubon). Swainson's Warbler. [638.] 



Sylvia Swainsonii Audubon, Birds Amer. (foho), II, 1834, pi. 198 (Orn. 

 Biog., II, 1834 [1835?], 563). (Edisto River, near Charleston, S. C.) 



