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KEVIEW OP AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



DENDROICA, Gray. 



Sylvicola, Gray, Genera, 2d ed. 1841, 32 (not of Humphrey or Swainson). 

 Dendroica, Gray, Genera, Appendix, 1842, 8. (Type Si/lvia coronata, 

 Lath.). 

 • "Ficedula, Cuv. 1799-1800" (not of Mcehring, 1752). 



Rhimamphus, Hartladb, Rev. Zool. 1845, 342 (not of Rafinesque). 



The genus Dendroica is represented by a very large number of 

 species, wliich vary somewhat in external form, but passing so in- 

 sensibly from one into the other as to render it exceedingly diflBeult 

 to subdivide them. They may, perhaps, be most conveniently 

 grouped by their colors, as has been done in " Birds of North Ame- 

 rica," to which I would refer, as also for general remarks. Nearly 

 all the species belong to the United States, going southward in 

 winter ; several are peculiar to Cuba, Jamaica, or Porto Rico, one to 

 the West Indies generally, and three to Central and South America. 



Dendroica virens. 



Mutacilla virens, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 985. — Sylvia virens, Lath. 

 — ViEiLLOT, Ois. Am. Sept. II, pi. xciii. — Wils. Am. Orn. II, 

 pi. xxvii, fig. 3.— NtTTT. ; Bon. ; Aud. Orn. Biog. IV, pi. 399. — 

 Gatke, Naumannia, 1858, 423 (Heligoland, Europe, an original 

 description). — Sylvicola virens, Sw. ; Add. B. A. II, pi. 84. — Rein- 

 EARDT, Vid. Med. for 1853, 1854,72,81 (Greenland). — Rhimanphus 

 virens, Cab. Mns. Hein. Jour. Ill, 1855, 474 (Cuba ; winter). — 

 ScLATER, P. Z. S. IS.'^e, 291 (Cordova). — Dendroica virens, Baird, 

 Birds N. Am. 1858, 267.— Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 1 (Guate- 

 mala).— Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, 363 (Oaxaca?) ; 373 (Xalapa).— 

 Ib. Catal. 1861, 29, no. 181.— Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Lye. VII, 1861, 

 293 (Panama).— GusDL. Cab. Jour. 1861, 326 (Cnha).—Mniotilta 

 virens, Reinhardt, Ibis, III, 1861, 5 (Juliauehaab, Greenlau 



