BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 569 



Pacific coast district of United States; breeding- on higher mountains 

 of California (El Dorado, Calaveras, Alpine, Placer, and Butte coun- 

 ties, etc.) and northward to British Columbia (chiefly west of the 

 Cascade range); in winter south into Lower California and through 

 Arizona over Mexican plateau to highlands of Guatemala (Volcan de 

 Fuego; San Geronimo; Alotepeque). 



Sylvia occidentalis TowNiiE^T), Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, 1837, 190 ("forests 

 of the Columbia River; " type now in coll. IT. S. Nat. Mus. ) ; viii, 1839, 53. — 

 Audubon, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 55, pi. 396, figs. 3, 4. 



Sylvicola occldentaUs Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 23. — Audubon, 

 Synopsis, 1839, 60; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 60, pi. 93.— Nuttall, Man. 

 Orn. U. S. and Can., 2d ed., i, 1840, 445. 



[Sylvicola'] occidentalis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 308. 



Mlniotilia] occidentalis Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 



[Mniotilki] occidentalis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 240, no. 3468. 



Dendroica occidentalis Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 268; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 190; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 183 (Mexico; Volcan de 

 Fuego, Guatemala). — Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, 

 pt. ii, 1860, 178 (Fort Steilacoom, Washington, June). — Sumichrast, Mem. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 546 (Moyoapam, Vera Cruz, alt. 8,333 feet, winter).— 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 266, pi. 12, fig. 

 5; iii, 1874, 506 (Cuyamaca Mts., s. California, May).— Ridgway, Bull. Essex 

 Inst, vii, 1875, 22 (e. Humboldt Mts., Nevada, Sept.).— Henshaw, Zool. 

 Exped. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 201 (Camp Crittenden and Mount Graham, 

 Arizona, Aug. 30 to Sept. 22); Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1876, 234 

 (head of Tule R., s. California, Oct. 9).— American Ornithologists' Union, 

 Check List, 1886, no. 669.— Brewster, Auk, iv, 1887, 166 (Blue Canon, 

 California, breeding; descr. nest and eggs). — Merrill, Auk, v, 1888, 361 

 (Fort Klamath, Oregon, May). — Belding, Land Birds Pacific Distr., 1890, 

 215 (breeding in Calaveras, Alpine, Placer, and Butte counties* California) . — 

 Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 231. — ^Anthony, Auk, xii, 1895, 

 142 (San Fernando, Low^er California, May 16, 1 spec). — Grinnell, Rep. 

 Birds Santa Barbara Is., etc., 1897, 7 (Santa Barbara I., California, May 

 14). — Barlow, Auk, xvi, 1899, 156-161 (El Dorado Co., California; nestmg 

 habits; descr. nest and eggs); Condor, iii, 1901, 179 (high Sierra Nevada; 

 habits; song; descr. nests and eggs ) . 



Dlendroica'] occidentalis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 513. 



Dendrceca occidentalis Sclater, Ibis, 1865, 89 (crit. ). — Coues, Ibis, 1865, 163 

 (Arizona); Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 69 (Fort Whipple, Arizona); 

 Check List, 1873, no. 72; 2d ed., 1882, no. 113; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 258.— 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1866, 191 (A'^olcan de Fuego, San Geronimo, and Alotepeque, 

 Guatemala). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 92. — Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 

 1877, 432 (e. Humboldt Mts., Nevada, Aug. 29, 1 spec); Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, iii, 1878, 65 (Calaveras Co., California, May); Nom. JS. Am. Birds, 

 1881, no. 109.— Belding, Proc. U.S.Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 405 (Calaveras Big 

 Trees, May, July; Soda Springs, autumn; Stockton, May; habits). — Salvin, 

 and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 138. — Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., X, 1885, 294, 647 (La Parada, Oaxaca, near City of Mexico, etc.). 



[Dendroeca'] occidentalis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 98. — Sclater and Sal- 

 vin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 9. 



D[endroeca'] occidentalis Coues, Key, N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 299. 



Dendroeca occidentcdis Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stockh.. xxvi, 1870, 

 611 (monogr. ). 



