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southeastern uiul southwestern Pennsylvania (Washington, Allegheny, 

 and Perry counties), southern Ontario, southern Michjo-an (Washtenaw 

 County), northern Illinois, southern Iowa (Decatur and Mahaska 

 counties) and eastern Nebraska, occasionally or accidentally to Long 

 Island, (Connecticut, Khode Island (Providence), Massachusetts (Cape 

 Cod, Falmouth, Magnolia, etc.), Maine (Portland), northern Michigan 

 (Mackinac Island), and Minnesota (Minneapolis); breeding southward 

 to Florida, Louisiana, and southern Texas (Brownsville, etc.); winter- 

 ing in Florida and other Gulf States and southward to Bahamas, Cuba, 

 and eastern Mexico to Yucatan and Guatemala. 



[Motadlla] carulea Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 337 (based on Motudlla 

 parva cicrulea Edwards, Gleanings Nat. Hist., ii, 194, pi. 302). 



[Motadlla'] caerulea Gmelin, Syst. Nat, i, pt. 2, 1788, 992. 



[Sylvia'] cserulea Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 540. 



Musdcapa ca:rulea Wilson, Am. Orn., ii, 1810, 164, pi. 18, fig. 5. — Audubon, Orn. 

 Biog., i, 1831, 431, pi. 84. 



M[itsdcapa] cKrulea Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 172 (refers 

 it to genus Sylvia) . 



Cu/idvora caerulea Jardine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., i, 1832, 304. — Audubon, 

 Birds Am., oot. ed., i, 1840, 244, pi. 75. — Woodhouse, in Rep. Bitgreaves' 

 Expl. Zuni and Col. R., 1853, 67 (Indian Territory; Texas). 



Culidvora cwridea D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1838, 76. — 

 Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 306 (Cuba). 



C\ulidvora] cierulea Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 176. 



[Culidvora] caerulea Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 316. — Heine and Reich- 

 enow, Nom. Mas. Hein. Orn., 1882, 24. 



Culidvora caerulea Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., 1861, 407 (Cuba). 



C[ulidvora] coerulea. Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 34 (North America; Jalapa"). 



Culidvora coerulea Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1855, 471 (Cuba). 



PoliojMa cserulea ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 11 (monogr. ); Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 12.— Hayden, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc, xii, 1863, 164 (Bald I., Ne- 

 braska; Fort Riley, Kansas) . — Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1864, 74, part. — (?) 

 Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1866, 69 (Fortune I. and Inagua, Bahamas). — 

 Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 261 (e. Florida in winter) ; iii, 1872, 124 

 (Topeka, Kansas); Am. Nat, vi, 1872, 269 (Topeka); Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., 

 i, 1886, 261 (Massachusetts records).— Trippe, Proc. Bost Soc. N. H., xv, 



1872, 236 (Decatur and Mahaska counties, s. Iowa, breeding). — Coues, Check 

 List, 1873, no. 23, part; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 101, part— Snow, Birds Kansas, 



1873, 6 (e. Kansas). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 



1874, 78, part, pi. 6, fig. 5.— Brewster, Ann. Lye. N. Y., xi, 1875, 132 

 (Ritchie Co., West Virginia; habits; song); Bull. Nutt Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 

 19 (descr. young).— Deane, Bull. Nutt Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 45 (Cape Cod, 

 Massachusetts, 1 spec, Nov. 18, 1877); v, 1880, 47 (Magnolia, Massachusetts, 

 1 spec, Aug. 27, 1879).— Purdie, Bull. Nutt Orn. Club, ii, 1877, 20 (Wau- 

 regan, Connecticut, 2 specs.; Providence, Rhode Island, 1 spec. May 23; 

 near Providence, 1 spec, June 24). — Brewer, Bull. Nutt Orn. Club, iii, 

 1878, 146 (Falmouth, Massachusetts, 1 spec, Dec !); Proc. Bost. Soc N. H., 

 xix, 1878, 301 (New England records).— Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. and 

 Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 6 (Brownsville, Texas, breeding). — Merrill 

 (J. C.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 120 (Fort Brown, Texas, breeding).— 



« Perhaps P. c. mexicana. 



