266 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Polioptila melanura calif omica Brewster. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher. [753.] 



Polioptila calif omica Brewster, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, VI, No. 2, April, 

 1881, 103. (Riverside, San Bernardino [= Riverside] Co., California.) 



Range. — San Diegan district of southern California from Ventura south to 

 about lat. 30° in northwestern Lower California. 



Subfamily REGULINAE. Kinglets. 



Genus REGULUS Cuvier. 



Regulus Cuvier, Legons Anat. Comp., I, 1800, table ii. Type, by mono- 

 typy, Les Roitelets = Motacilla regulus Linnaeits. 



Regulus satrapa satrapa Lichtenstein. Eastern Golden-crowned Kinglet. 



[748.] 



Regulus satrapa Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl., 1823, 35. (Am. sept. = 

 North America.) 



Range. — Breeds in Boreal zones from central Alberta, central Manitoba, 

 southern Quebec, and Cape Breton Island south to Minnesota, Michigan, New 

 York, the highlands of Massachusetts, and in the higher Alleghanies south to 

 North Carolina. Winters from Iowa (casually Minnesota), Ontario, and New 

 Brunswick to northern Florida and Tamaulipas, Mexico. 



Regulus satrapa olivaceus Baird. Western Golden-crowned Kinglet. [748a.] 



Regulus satrapa var. olivaceus Baird, Review Amer. Birds, sig. 5, July, 

 1864, 65. (Puget Sound, wintering to Fort Crook = Simiahmoo, Wash- 

 ington.) 



Range. — Breeds in Boreal zones from Kodiak Island and Kenai Peninsula, 

 Alaska, south to the San Jacinto Mountains, California, and New Mexico. 

 Winters from British Columbia (casually Alaska) to the highlands of Mexico 

 and Guatemala. 



Genus CORTHYLIO Cabanis. 



Corthylio Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., I, No. 2, March, 1853, 83. Type, by 

 subs, desig., Motacilla calendula Linnaeus (Baird, Brewer, and Ridg- 

 way, 1874). 



Corthylio calendula calendula (Linnaeus), Eastern Ruby-crowned Kinglet. 



[749.] 



Motacilla Calendula Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 337. Based on 

 The Ruby-crowned Wren Edwards, Gleanings, 95. (in Pennsylvania 

 = Philadelphia, Pa.) 



