BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 609 



Eastern United States, breeding- north to Massachusetts, southern 

 Ontario (Toronto), southern Michigan, southern Wisconsin (?), etc., 

 south to Florida, Bahamas (islands of Abaco, New Providence, and 

 Green Cay^), and probably to the Gulf States in general; occurring 

 irregularly north to northern Michig'an (Mackinac Island); west to 

 edge of the Great Plains, in eastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas, etc. ; in 

 winter south nearly throughout West Indies (Bahamas, Cuba, Grand 

 Caj'man, Cayman Brae, Jamaica, Haiti, Porto Rico, Mona, Culebra, 

 St. Thomas, Tortola, Virgin Gorda, and St. Croix, Greater Antilles; 

 St. Eustatius, St. Christopher, and Martinique, Lesser Antilles), island 

 of Cozumel, Yucatan (January), and Swan Island, Caribbean Sea (1 

 specimen, February 12); Bermudas (October). 



S[/lvia discolor YiEiJ.'LOT, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 37, p\. 98 (United States and 

 Greater Antilles); Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat,, xi, 1817, 181; Enc. Meth , ii, 

 1823, 445.— Stephens, Shaw's Gen. ZooL, x, 1817, 716.— Bonaparte, Ann 

 Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 82.— Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 1831, 418.— Nuttall, Man. 

 Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, "294," i. e. 394.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831-, 

 76, pi. 14.— Brewer, Journ. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1827, 436 (Massachusetts).— 

 Lembeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 32, pi. 6, fig. 2. 



Sijlvkola discolor Jardine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1832, 375. — Richardson, Rep. 

 Brit. Assoc, for 1836 (1837), 172. — Bonaparte, Geog. and Conip. List, 1838, 

 23.— Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 62; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 68, pi. 97.— 

 GossE. Birds Jamaica, 1847, 159. — Jardine, Contr. Orn., 1848, 82 (Bermu- 

 das, aut. visit.) . — HuRDis, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, 7 (Bermudas, Oct.). — 

 Hoy, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, 1853, 311 (Wisconsin). — Pratten, Trans. 

 Ills. Agric. Soc, i, 1855, 602 (IlUnois).— Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 

 1859, 110 (Bahamas, breeding); xi, 1867, 91 (Santo Domingo), 250 (Porto 

 Rico); Journ. fiir Orn., 1866. 184 (do.).— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 vii, 1860, 307 (Cuba). 



[_Sylvicola'] discolor Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 308. 



M\_niotilta'] discolor Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 



IMniotilta] discolor Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 241, no. 3486. 



Rkimamphus discolor Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1855, 474 (Cuba). 



Dendroica discolor Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858 290; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 

 1859, 210; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 213, part (Jamaica; Porto Rico; St. 

 Thomas; St. Croix).— Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 326 (Cuba); 1872, 

 416 (do.); Repert. Fisico-JSat Cuba, i, 1865, 235; Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., 

 vii, 1878, 186 (Porto Rico).— March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xv, 1863, 

 293 (Jamaica) . — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 

 276, pi. 14, fig. 9.— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1875, 4.39 (Massa- 

 chusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, breeding). — Ridgway, Proc. IT. S. 

 Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 564 (Cozumel I., Yucatan, winter) ; x, 1888, 576 (Swan 

 I., Caribbean Sea); Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 155.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 39 

 (West Indian references) ; vi, 1889, 31 (Little Cayman and Cayman Brae) ; vii, 

 1890, 375 (Tortola and Virgin Gorda) ; viii, 1891, 47 (St. Eustatius), 48 (St. 

 Croix; St. Christopher) ; ix, 1892, 48, 49 (Maraguna and Watlings I., Bahamas) ; 

 Birds W. I., 1889, 53; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 118 (Great Bahama, Abaco, Bir- 



1 Perhaps also Rum Cay and other islands of the group. These resident Bahama 

 birds are recognizably different from birds breeding in the United States, as explained 

 on p. 608 (footnote), and may require subspecific separation. 



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