SEIURUS. 



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Specimens nave been received from various localities in the wliole 

 eastern United -States, as far west as tlie mouth of the Platte, or 

 beginning of the high plains, and as far north as English River, 

 H. B. T. (July 15, Kenuicott). The extra-limital localities are as 

 follow : — 



Seiurus iiovel>oraceiisis. 



Motacilla noveboracensis, Gmelin, S. N. 1, 1788, 958. — Sylvia nov. Lath. ; 

 ViEiLLOT, Ois. Am. Sept. II, pi. Ixxxii. — Seiurus nov. Njjtt. ; Bon. ; 

 AuD. B. A. Ill, pi. 199.— Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 261, pi, Ixxx, 

 fig. 1. — Max. Cab. Jour. 1858, 121. — Henicocichla nov. Cab. Schom. 

 Guiana, III, 666 ; Jour. 1860, 324 (Costa Rica).— Sclater, Catal. 

 1861, 25, no. 161 (Tobago). — Gdndlach, Cab. Jour. 1861, 326 

 (Cuba). — Mniotilta nov. Gray. 



f ? Motacilla fuscescens, Gmelin, S. N. 984 (based on Ficedula jamaicensis, 

 Brisson, III, 512, Jamaica). 



Tardus aquaticus, WiLS. Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, pi. xxii, fig. 5. — Aud. Om. 

 Biog. 1839, 284, pi. 433. 



Sylvia anthoides, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. XI, 1817, 208. — Seiurus tenui- 

 rostris, Sw. 1827 ; Game. — Seiurus sulfurascens, D'Orbigny, Sagra's 

 Cuba, 1840, §7, pi. vi. — Seiurus gossii, Bon. Consp. 1850, 306 (Ja- 

 maica). — ?Anthus Vherminieri, Les.s. Rev. Z. 1839, 101 (Colombia). 



Other Localities Quoted: Xalapa, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, 363. 



Guatemala, Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 10. — Panama, Lawrence, 

 Ann. N. Y. Lye. 1861, Z22.— Carthagena, Cassin, Pr. A. N. Sc. 1860, 

 \^\.— Santa Cruz (winter), Newton, Ibis, 1859, \A2.— Cuba, Cab. 

 Jour. 111,471. — Jamaica, Gosse, Birds, 151.— Scl. P. Z. S. 1861, 70. 



Hab. Eastern province of North America, nortb to Arctic Ocean and Yukon, 

 (westward along northern border of U. S. to Cascade Mountains) ; whole 

 West Indies ; southeastern Mexico ; all Central America ; Panama and eastern 

 South America (Bogota; Cartliagena ; Brazil). 



The examination of a large series of specimens, from widely re- 

 mote localities, reveals differences of but little moment. Some 

 skins from Jamaica, killed in August, agree exactly in the strong 



