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sides of breast deeper drab-gra3% the latter obsoletely streaked with 

 dull white; rest of under parts dull white. 



Atlantic coast district of United States; north to lower Maryland 

 and eastern shore of Virginia, casually to New York (Long Island), 

 Connecticut (New Haven; Hartford), and Massachusetts (Charles 

 River; Dedham); breeding southward to Florida; in winter to Bahamas 

 (Maranagua, Watlings, Great Bahama, Great Inagua, Abaco, and Berry 

 islands), Cuba (including Isle of Pines), Grand Caj^man, Jamaica, 

 Haiti, and Porto Rico. 



[Motacillal dominica Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 33-4 (based on Le Fignier 

 cendre de S. Domingue, Ficedula dominicensis cinerea, Brisson, Orn., iii, 1760, 

 520, pi. 27, fig. 3).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 980. 



[Sylvia] dominica Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 538. 



Sylvia dominica YiEihhOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xi, 1817, 223. — Stephens, 

 Sliaw's Gen. Zool., x, 1817, 612. 



lM]niotilta dominica Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 197. 



[Mniotilta'] dominica Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 240, no. 3478. 



Dendroica dominica Baird, Eeview Am. Birds, Apr., 1865, 209, part. — Gundlach, 

 Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865, 235; Journ. fiir Orn., 1872, 415 (Cuba); 

 Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 184 (Porto Rico). — Baird, Brewer, and 

 RiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 240, part, pi. 14, fig. 6; iii, 1874, 505 

 (Wilmington, North Carolina, breeding; descr. nest and eggs). — Brewer, 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xix, 1878, 303 (near New Haven and Hartford, Con- 

 necticut, accidental) ; xx, 1879, 265 (Charles R., Massachusetts, accidental). — 

 American ORNiTiioLOGisTs' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 663. — Allen, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. N. H., i, 1886, 257 (Dedham, Massachusetts, 1 spec.).— Cory, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 36 (West Indian references), 501 (Grand Cayman); ix, 1892, 

 48 (Bahamas), 49 (Watlings I., Bahamas); Birds W. I., 1889, 50; Cat. W. 

 I. Birds, 1892, 118, 155 (Great Bahama, Abaco, Biminis, Berry Islands, 

 New Providence, Watlings I., Maraguna, and Great Inagua, Bahamas; Cuba, 

 Isle of Pines, Grand Cayman, Jamaica, Haiti, and Porto Rico). — Richmond, 

 Auk, vi, 1889, 339 (near Washington, D. C, July 28 to Sept. 7).— Scott, Auk, 

 vii, 1890, 20 (Tarpon Springs and PuntaRassa, Florida, breeding; Key West, 

 after July 25), 313 (Garden Key, Tortugas, Mar. 23 to 29 and Apr. 8; 

 3spec. ). — Brimley, Auk, vii, 1890, 323 (Raleigh, North Carolina; nesting 

 habits; descr. nest and eggs). — Wayne, Auk, vii, 1890, 97 (black-backed 

 specimen described); xii, 1895, .365 (Wacissa and Aucilla rivers, n. w. 

 Florida, breeding). — Dutci[er, Auk, x, 1893, 277 (Crow Hill, Long Island, 

 1 spec). — Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 222, pi. 13, fig. 1. — 

 Palmer (W.), Auk, xiii, 1896, 343 (near Mount Vernon, Virginia, breeding). 



Dlfndroica'] dominica Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 504. 



Dendroeca dominica Coues, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1868, 270; Check List, 1873, no. 88; 

 2ded., 1882, no. 129; Birds N. W., 1874, 66, part.— Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., ii, 1871, 268 (e. Florida, winter) .— Maynard, Birds Florida, 1873, 60.— 

 Gundlach, Orn. Cuba, 1876, 67. — Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, 

 1877, 102 (Georgia and n. Florida; nesting habits, etc.); iii, 1878, 43. — 

 Merriam, Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci., iv, 1877, 17 (Connecticut, several 

 records).— Purdie, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 146 (Dedham, Massa- 

 chusetts, 1 spec). — Cory, Birds Bahama I., 1880, 65; Birds Haiti and San 

 Dom., 1885, 27.— Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 103; Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 253 (Arlington, Virginia, Sejit. ). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., X, 1885, 301, part (Florida; Jamaica). 



