BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 469 



Sylvia ruficapilla (not of Latham, 1790) Wilson, Am. Orn., iii, 1811, 120, pi. 27, 

 fig. 3. — Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 197. — Audubon, 

 Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 450, pi. 89. 



M[niotilta'] ruficapilla Ghay , Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 



[ifnioiilta^ ruficapilla Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 239, no. 3456. 



Helminthophaga ruficapUla Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 256; Cat. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 183, part; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 175, part.— 

 (?)Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 298 (La Parada, Oaxaca); 1859, 

 373 (Oaxaca, Feb.); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 29.— Blakiston, Ibis, 1863, 62 

 (Great Slave Lake). — Allen, Proc. Essex Inst., iv, 1864, 59 (Massachusetts, 

 breeding); Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 269 (e. Florida, Mar.); iii, 1872, 

 175, part (Kansas). — (?)Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 477 (San Antonio, Texas). — 

 McIlwraith, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 85 (Hamilton, Ontario). — Sumi- 

 CHRAST, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 546 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz, winter). — 

 CouES, Check List, 1873, no. 67, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 106, part; Birds 

 N. W., 1874, 50, part; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 224, part— Herrick, Bull, 

 Essex Inst., v, 1873, 30 (Grand Menan). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 196, part, pi. 11, fig. 7.— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., xvii, 1875, 439 (New England, summer resid. ). — Newton, Man. N. 

 H. Greenland, 1875, 99 (Gothaab, 1835, and Fiskena?sset, Aug. 31, 1840).— 

 (?)Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 15 (Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca, 

 Dec, Jan.). — Ridgway, Ibis, 1876, 170, part; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 

 85, part.— Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 12 

 (near Hidalgo, Texas); v, 1879, 386 (Lometa, Texas, Apr. 11 to 26).— 

 Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 123 (Fort Brown, Texas, Apr.).— 

 Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 187 8, 57 (descr. young). — Salvin and 

 GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 115, part. — (?) Salvin, Cat. Strick- 

 land Coll., 1882, 89 (Guatemala). 



[Hehninthophaga'j ruficapilla Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 95. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 8. 



H^elminthophaga'] ruficapilla Ridgway, Ibis, 1876, 168 (diagnosis). 



[Helnmithophaga ruficapilla} var. ruficapilla Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 191, in text. 



Helminthophlla ruficapilla Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, Jan., 1882, 54; Orn. 

 lUinois, i, 1889, 128.— Brewster, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xxii, 1883, 370 (Gasp6 

 Bay, Gulf St. Lawrence, July 15). — Bicknell, Auk, i, 1884, 211 (song). — 

 Shakpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 242, 640, part.— Ralph, Trans. Oneida 

 Hist. Soc, iii, 1886, 137 (Oneida Co., New York, breeding). — American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 645.— Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 

 1888, 241 (Mississippi Valley localities and dates; breeding from n. Illinois 

 and Nebraska northward). — Chapman, Auk, vi, 1889, 198, 304 (Englewood, 

 New Jersey, breeding).— Thompson, Proc U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 616 

 (Manitoba, breeding).— White, Auk, x, 1893, 227 (Mackinac I., Michigan, 

 rare summer resid. ). — Congdon, Auk, xii, 1895, 190 (Dingmans Ferry, Pike 

 Co., Pennsylvania, breeding). — Bruner, Proc. Nebr. Orn. Un., 2d an. meet., 

 1901, 57 (Nebraska City, Nebraska, breeding). 



H\_elmintho})hila ruficapilla'] Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 294. — Ridg- 

 way, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 489. 



Helminfophila ruficapilla Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 189. 



Sylvia rubricapilla Wilson, Am. Orn., vi, 1812, 15 (index). — Bonaparte, Journ. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 197; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 7.— Audubon, 

 Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 450, pi. 89.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 

 1832, 412. 



Sylvia {Verinivora) rubricapilla Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 

 1831, 220. 



