BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. . 523 



River, near Circle, and Miles Canyon, Yukon Valley); east to the 

 lower Saskatchewan (Cumberland House), western Manitolia (Biji; 

 Plain), western North Dakota (Rolette and Nelson counties, breed- 

 ing) , and rest of western portion of Great Plains to western Texas ; 

 breeding southward to northern Mexico, in States of Tamaulipas 

 (Matamoras), Nuevo Leon, Coahuila (Sierra Encarnacion), Chihuahua, 

 Sonora, and Lower California (Pinon and Rancho San Antonio, on 

 west side of San Pedro Martir Mountains; mountains east of 

 Ensenada), probably to Durango or farther; in winter south over 

 greater part of Mexico and Central America to Ecuador (Esmeraldas; 

 Zamora; Chimbo; Placer; Pedregal; Mapoto; Machay), Peru (La 

 Merced; La Gloria), and northern Bolivia (Naipiri). 



Tyrannula richardsonii Swainson, Fauna, Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 14(5, pi. 4f>, lower fig. 

 (Cumberland House, Saskatchewan, Canada). 



Muscicapa richardsonii Audubon, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 299, pi. 434. 



Contopus richardsonii Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 189; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 138; Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 9 

 (El Paso, Texas; Monterey, Nuevo Leon). — Blakiston, Ibis, 1863, 57 (lower 

 Saskatchewan).— CouEs, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 61 (Fort \Miipple, 

 etc., Arizona). — Cooper, Orn. Calif., 1870, 325. — American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 462.— Seton, Auk, iii, 1886, 320 (Big Plain, w. 

 Manitoba, common). — Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 153 (w. Manitoba; 

 w. Nebraska; w. Kansas; Concho Co., w. Texas, migr.). — Cherrie, Auk, 

 vii, 1890, 334 (San Jose, Costa Rica).— Goss, Hist. Birds Kansas, 1891, 366 

 (w. Kansas, breeding). — Attwater, Auk, ix, 1892, 236 (San Antonio, Texas, 

 breeding). — Thorne, Auk, xii, 1895, 215 (Fort Keogh, Montana, breeding). — 

 Dawson, Auk. xiv, 1897, 176 (Okanogan Co., Washington).— Grinnell (J.), 

 Pub. no. 1, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1897, 10 (San Nicolas I.). 15 (San Clemente I., 

 1 spec, June 3). — Nelson, North Am. Fauna, no. 14, 1899, 49 (Tres Marias 

 Islands). — Rathbun (S. F.), Auk, xix, 1902, 136 (Seattle, Washington, 

 breeding. 



Contopus richardsoni Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 331 (Vera Paz, Guatemala); 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 239 (Presidio, near Mazatlan; Orizaba, Vera 

 Cruz; Coban, Retalhuleu, and Duenas, Guatemala; Irazu and San Jose, 

 Costa Rica; Bugaba, Panama; Esmeraldas and Zamora, Ecuador; Naipiri, 

 Bolivia). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 360 (Panama); 

 1879, 615 (Naipiri, Bolivia). — Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 474 (Matamoras, Tamau- 

 lipas, breeding; San Antonio, Texas, 1 spec, May). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye 

 N. Y., ix, 1868, 115 (San Jos^, Frailes, and Barranca, Costa Rica). — Frant- 

 zius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 308 (Costa Rica).— Salvin, Ibis, 1870, 199 (Cal- 

 ovevora, Bugaba, and Volcan de Chiriqui, Panama.) — Baird, Brewer, and 

 RiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 44, fig. 4. — BERLEPscnand Taczan- 

 owsKi, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 558 (Chimbo, w. Ecuador, Sept.; crit.); 

 1884, 297 (Pedregal and Placer, 2,800 ft., w. Ecuador).— Taczanowski and 

 Berlepsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lcfnd., 1885, 68 (Chimbo, Mapoto, and Machay, 

 Ecuador), 92 (do.). — Drew, Auk, ii, 1885, 15 (Colorado, breeding from plains 

 to 11,000 ft.).— Scott, Auk, iv, 1887, 19 (Santa Catalina Mts., s. Arizona, breed- 

 ing). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1889, 85, part. — 

 Ray, Auk, xx, 1903, 184 (Lake Valley, California; habits; descr. nest and 

 eggs). — SwARTH, Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 4, 1904, 25 (Huachuca Mts., 

 Arizona, breeding). 



