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Eastern United States; north to Massachusetts, New York, southern 

 Wisconsin, southern Minnesota, etc., occasionally to Vermont and 

 New Brunswick (South Ba^^), west to western border of Great Plains; 

 breeding from northern limit of its range southward to northern 

 (centriil^) Florida and Texas (except Rio Grande Valley); wintering 

 from South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Texas southward to Cuba 

 (rarely) and through eastern Mexico (west to Sabinas, Coahuila) to 

 Tabasco (Frontera), Campeche (Apazote), Yucatan (Chichen Itza; 

 Merida; Oozumel Island), Guatemala (Coban), Honduras ( ^), and island 

 of St. Andrews, Caribbean Sea. 



IMuscicapa^ noveboracensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 947 (based on Green Fly- 

 catcher Pennant, Arctic ZooL, 389). — Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 489. — 

 Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., x, 1817, 366. 



Muscicapa noviB-boracensis'L'EssoN, Man. d'Orn., i, 1828, 153. 



Vireo noveboracensis Bo's AF ARTE, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 176; Ann. 

 Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 70; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 26.— Audubon, Orn. 

 Biog., i, 1831, 328, pi. 63; Synopsis, 1839, 161; Birds Am., oct. ed.,iv,1842, 

 146, pi. 240 ("Nova Scotia").— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can.,i, 1832, 

 306. — Thompson, Nat. Hist. Vermont, 1853, 77.— Hoy, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1853, 309 (Wisconsin).— Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 18.55, 469 

 (Cuba); 1861, 404 (do.); 1872, 484 (do.).— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1857, 204 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 228 (Santecomapan, Vera Cruz); Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, (Mexico; Honduras). — Maximilian, Journ. fiir Orn., 1858, 187 

 (lower Missouri R. ). — Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 328, part; 

 Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 248, part; Review Am. Birds, 1866, 354, part 

 (Merida, Yucatan; Honduras; "Colombia", etc.). — Salvin and Sclater, 

 Ibis, 1860, 274 (Coban, Guatemala).— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 

 1860, 307 (Cuba). — Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 481 (San Antonio, Texas; common 

 sum. resid. ). — Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 270 (e. Florida, 

 winter) .—CouES, Am. Nat., v, 1871, 197 (Kansas); Check List, 1873, no. 129; 

 2ded., 1882, no. 181; Birds N. W., 1874, 100; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 520.— 

 Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 5 (Lawrence, e. Kansas, June). — Baird, Brewer, 

 and RiDGW.w, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 385, pi. 17, fig. 11. — Lawrence, 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 17 (Santa Etigenia, Oaxaca, Dec.).— 

 Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 116 (descr. first plumage). — 

 RiDGWAY, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 143; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 

 1885, 565 (Cozumel I.); Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 188.- Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 200.— Nehrling, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 

 1882, II (s. e. Texas, breeding); Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 302, pi. 15, 

 fig. 2.— Brown (N. C), Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 37 (Boerne, Ken- 

 dall Co., Texas, breeding). — Chamberlain, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 

 104 (South Bay, New Brunswick, I spec, May 24). — Gadow, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 300, part (excl. syn. crassirostris) . — Bicknell, Auk. i, 

 1884, 323 (song).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 188 (West Indian references); iv, 

 1887, 181 (St. Andrews I., Caribbean Sea); Birds W. L, 1889, 74 (do.); 

 Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 116 ("Cuba and .Jamaica"). —American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 631, part.)— Lloyd, Auk, iv, 1887, 295 

 (Concho Co., w. Texas, Oct.; "eyes pink"). — Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. 

 Val., 1888, 236 (localities and dates) .—Scott, Auk, vii, 1890, 15 (Tarpon 

 Springs, migr. and winter resid.). — Wayne, Auk, xii, 1895, 315 (Wacissa R., 

 n. w. Florida, breeding.) — Attwater, Auk, ix, 1892, 340 (San Antonio, 



