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coverts lij:^ht huffy olive, the middle and j^reater hroadly hut not sharply 

 tipped with c-innaiiion-hufi*; remiges and rectrices grayish olive-green, 

 as in adults. 



Adult male.—hewgih (skins), 118.1-127 (121.1); wing, 66.3-72.9 

 (69.3); tail, 47.7-51 (49.3); exposed culmen, 12.9-14.5 (13.7); tarsus, 

 17.3-18.3 (18).^ 



Adnlt female.— Length, (skins), 110.5-127 (117.3); wing, 64.8-67.1 

 (65.8); tail, 44.7-47.7(46.5); exposed culmen, 12.7-13.7 (13.2); tarsus, 

 17.8-19.3 (18.3).' 



Eastern United States, breeding northward to southern Connecticut 

 (Saylu'ook; Gales Ferry; near New Haven), south(>astern N(nv York 

 (lower Hudson Valley), Pennsylvania (Heaver, Butler, Armstrong, 

 and Delaware counties), southern Wisconsin (v^icinity of Racine), etc.; 

 occasional in Massachusetts (Camlu'idge; Easthampton); in winter 

 south to Bahamas (New Providence; Great Inagua; Cay Lobos), Cuba, 

 Jamaica, Ca3'man Brae (near Cuba), and through eastern Mexico and 

 Central America to Veragua (Santa Fe). 



\_MotacUki] rcrmivora Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 17S8, 951 (liasedon TIte Worm-eadr, 

 Vennivora Edwards, Gleanings Nat. Hist., ii, 200, pi. 305). 



[*%Zrwf] vermivora Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 544. 



Syhia vermivora Wilsox, Am. Orn., iii, 1811, 74, pi. 24, fig. 4. — Yieillot, Nouv. 

 Diet. d'Hist. Nat., 2d ed., xi, 1817, 278; Eno. Meth., ii, 1823, 480.— Nuttam., 

 Man. Orn. U. 8. and Can., i, 1832, 409.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 177; 

 v,'1839, 460. 



Dacnis vermivoni Audubon, Birds Am., fol. ed., ])1. 34. 



Sylvicola vermivora Richardson, Rep. Brit. Soc. Adv. Sci. for 1836 (1837), 171. 



^elinaia vermivora. Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 66; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii. 1841, 86, 

 pi. 105. — Lembeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 35, pi. 6, fig. 4.^Bke\vek, 

 Proo. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307 (Cuba). 



Mlnioiilta'] vermivora Ghay , Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 



[Mniotilta^ vennivora Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 239, no. 3463. 



Hi/loj}hilus vermivonis Temminck, PI. Col., i, 1831 (?) (Tableau Methodique, 

 p. 36). 



[HehniOieros^] vermivora Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, Apr. 20, 1850, 314. 



H[elm.itheroft'] vermivorus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 20, footnote; Jonrn. fiir 

 Orn., 1860, 328 (Costa Rica). 



Helmitlwros vermivorus Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1855, 476 (Cul)a) ; 1861, 326, 

 409 (Cuba).— Sclater, Proe. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 3(53 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz).— 

 RiDcavAY, Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 124. 



Helmitlteras vermivorus Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 252; Cat. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1859, no. 178; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 179. — Sclater and Salvix, 

 Ibis, 1959, 11 (Guatemala). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1865, 28 (Guatemala; 

 Jamaica). — Gundlach, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865, 232; Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1872, 412 (Cuba); Orn. Cuba, 1876, 63.— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 

 ix, 1868, 94 (San Jose, Costa Rica); 1869, 200 (Merida, Yucatan ).—Sumi- 

 CHRAST, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 546 (mountains near Orizal)a, Vera 

 Cruz, in winter). — Gregg, Proe. Elmira Acad., 1870, — (Chenumg Co., New 

 York).— Allen, Bull. Mus.Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 269 (St. Augustine, Florida, 

 Apr.).; Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., i, 1886, 255 (Cand)ridge, Massachusetts, 1 

 spec., Sept. 19, 1881).— Coces, Check List, 1873, no. 60; Birds N. W., 1874, 



^ Eight specimens. •' Five specimens. 



