BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 485 



Eastern United States and British Provinces, breeding from the 

 interior districts of Virginia and Maryland^ northward to Maine, Anti- 

 costi Island, New Brunswick, and northern Ontario(?); casual in south- 

 ern Greenland; in winter throughout West Indies.^ 



Si/lria nmericana (not Parus americanus Linnaeus) Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 

 ii, 1826, 83, part. — ^Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1832, 78, part. — Peabody, Rep. 

 Orn. Mass., 1839, 11.— Thompson, Nat. Hist. Vermont, App., 1853, p. 24. 



Siilvlcola americana Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 59, part; Birds Am., oot. ed., ii, 

 1841, 57, part. — Putnam, Proc. Essex Inst., i, 1856, 207 (P^ssex Co.. Massa- 

 chusetts).— Willis, Ann. Rep. vSmithsoii. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 2.s-' (Nova 

 Scotia). 



S[yhncola] ffmm«r;)rt Maximilian, Journ. fiir Orn., 1858, 116, part (Pennsylvania) . 



Pnrula americana Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 20, part. — Baird, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 238, part; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 

 168, part; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 169, part. — Verrill, Proc. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., ix, 1863, 233 (Oxford Co., Maine).— Allen, Proc. Essex Inst., iv, 

 1864, 59 (Springfield, Massachusetts). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 

 1868, 283 (vie. New York City).— Brewer, Am. Nat., i, 1867, 117 (nesting 

 habits); xvii, 1875,439 (New England).— Trippe, Am. Nat., ii, 1868, 177 

 (habits, etc.). — Coues, Proc. Essex. Inst., v, 1868, 269 (Essex Co., Massa- 

 chusetts); Check List, 1873, no. 58, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 93, part; Birds 

 N. W., 1874, 46, part; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 208, part.— Turxbull, Birds E. 

 Penn. and N. J., 1869, 23; Phila. ed., 16.— Maynard, Proc. Bost. Soe. N. H., 

 xiv, 1872, 361 (Upton, Maine, etc.).— Herrick, Bull. Essex Inst., v, 1873, 30 

 (New Brunswick).— Packard, Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 271 (eatseankerworm). — 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 208, part, pi. 

 10, fig. 7.— Newton (A.), Man. Nat. Hist. Greenland, 1875, 98 (Southern 

 Inspectorate, 1 spec., 1857). — Brewster, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xxii, 1884, 

 370 (Anticosti I., June, July); Bull. Nutt. Orn. Chib, iii, 1878, 22 (descr. 

 young). — MiNOT, Birds New England, 1877, 99. — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1881, no. 88, part. 



[Parula] americana Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 93, part. — Sclater and Sal- 

 viN, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 8, part. 



Plarula] americana Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 290, part. 



M^niotiUa'] americana Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196, part. 



Mniotilta americana Reinhardt, Ibis, 1861, 6 (s. Greenland, 1 spec, 1857). 



IMniutilla'] americana Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 238, no. 3448, part. 



(?) C[ompsothlypis] americana Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 20, part (North 

 America). — Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 491, part. 

 ' Compsothlypis americana Stejneger, Auk, i, 1884, 170, part. — Bicknell, Auk, i, 

 1884, 212 (song). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 

 648, part. — Todd, Auk, viii, 1891, 398 (Beaver, Butler, and Armstrong coun- 

 ties, Pennsylvania, breeding). — Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 

 193, part, pi. 11, fig. 1. 



^Specimens from the District of Columbia and adjacent parts of Maryland and Vir- 

 ginia are mainly referable to this form, though averaging slightly less in length of 

 wing and tail but more in length of bill; many are intermediate in coloration between 

 the present form and C. a. americana, while occasional specimens can not be distin- 

 guished from the latter. 



^Some West Indian (winter) specimens are undoubtedly of this form; but the 

 differences between ('. a. nfineic and C. a. americana in winter plumage are so much 

 obscured that it is difficult to distinguish them at that season. 



