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Wallace), and in the coniferous forests of the western United States to 

 New Mexico and Arizona, probably also in Mexico and possibly 

 farther,'^ also along the higher AUeghenies at least to North Carolina; 

 migrating southward through mountain districts of Mexico, Central 

 America,^ and northern South America to Colombia (Minca, La Con- 

 cepcion, and San Lorenzo, Santa Marta; Bogota), western Ecuador 

 (Gualea), and Peru (Iluambo).^ Accidental in Greenland. 



(??) Muscicapamesolnica Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1830, 2 (Mexico); 

 Journ. fiir. Orn., 1863, 58 (reprint); see Ralvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 x\m., Aves, ii, 1889, 81. 



Contopusmcsoleucus SchXTER, Proc. Zool. Sor.Lond., 1859,43 (Orizaba, Vera Cniz); 

 Ibis, 1859, 440 (Orizaba; Guatemala).— Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 122 

 (Guatemala), 440 (s. Mexico; Guatemala).— Sumichrast, Mem. Post. Soc. 

 . N. H., i, 1869, 557 (alpine region of Vera Cruz). 



[Pyrocephalus] 'mesoleucus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 362, no. 5508. 



Tyrannus borealis .Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831 (pub. Feb., 1832), 141, pi. 

 35 (Cumljerland House, banks of the Saskatchewan,' lat. 54° N.).— Salvin, 

 Ibis,' 1866, 203 (Guatemala). 



Contopvs borealis Baikd, Rep. Pacific R. R. Sun-., ix, 1858, 188; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 137.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1858, 301 (La Parada, 

 Oaxaca; crit.); 1859, 384 (Cinco Senores); Ibis, 1859, 440 (Cordova, Vera Cruz; 

 La Parada); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 230; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 234 

 (Orizaba; Coban and Duefias, Guatemala; Irazu, Costa Rica; Calobre, 

 Panama; Minca and Bogota, Colombia).— Xantus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1859, 190 (Fort Tejon, California).— Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., X, pt. iv, 1859, 37 (Cosumnes R., California).- Cooper and Suckley, 

 liep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt.ii, 1860, 169 (Fort Steilacom, Puget Sound, etc., 

 Washington).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1866, 290 (near New York 

 City); ix, 1868, 115 (Costa Rica).— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 474 (San Antonio, 

 Texas, winter).— Coues, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xii, 1868, 118 (South Carolina) ; 

 Check List, 1873, no. 253; 2d ed., 1882, no. 380; Birds Northwest, 1874, 243.— 

 Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 308 (Costa Rica).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., i, 

 1870, 323.— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 199 (Calobre, Panama).— 

 Aiken, Proc. Bost. Soc.N. H., 1872, 206 (Wyoming).— Allen, Bull. Mus.CoAp. 

 Zool., iii, 1872, 179 (mountains Colorado, up to 12,000 ft.; Wahsatch Mts., 

 Utah).— Merriam, Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 691 (Idaho).— Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 353, pi. 44, fig. 1.— 

 Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Survey, 1873 (1874), 85 (Fort Crar- 

 land, Colorado; habits), 126 (Apache, Arizona); Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 

 1875, 350 (Nevada; near Fort Garland, Rio Grande, etc., Colorado; 

 Willow Spring, etc., Arizona; habits) .—Ridgway. BuU. Essex Inst., v, 



« The writer fcnind the species rather common at Coliblanco, Costa Rica (about 6,000 

 feet altitude), as late as May 8, and near the end of May near the summit of Irazii, at 

 about 10,500 to 11,000 feet. 



f> Mexican and Central American localities which I am able to cite are as follows: 

 Tamaulipas (Sierra Madre above Ciudad Victoria); Vera Cruz (Orizaba; Cordova; 

 Jalapa; Cuesta de Misantla); Oaxaca (La Parada; Cinco Senores; Cacoprieto); Guer- 

 rero (Rio de Papagaio); Guat(>mala (Coban; Dueiias); Costa Rica (Irazii; Coliblanco; 

 San Jose; Volcan de Miravalles) Panama (Calobre). 



