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ounties) and West Virginia (spruce belt), southern Michigan (?), north- 

 astern Illinois (?), etc.; in winter southward throughout West Indies 

 md along eastern coast districts of Central America to Colombia, 

 Venezuela, British Guiana, Brazil (?), Trinidad, and Tobago, and to 

 Swan Island and Old Providence Island, Caribbean Sea.^ Occasional 

 in Bermudas; accidental in southern Greenland (two records). 



MotadUa mcvia (not of Boddaert, Tabl. PL Enl., 1783, 35^) Boddaert, Tabl. 

 PL EnL, 1783, 47 (based on Fauvettee tacJiete, dc la Louisiane, Daubenton, PL 

 EnL, pi. 752, fig. 1). 



Siurus menus Coues, BulL Nntt. Orn. Club, ii, Apr., 1877, 32; Birds Col. VaL, 

 1878, 299; Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 136.— Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mas., i, 1878, 54 (Dominica), i, 1879, 233 (Antigua), 453 (Guadeloupe), 486.— 

 KuMLiEN, BulL U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 15, 1879, 74 (Straits of Belle Isle, Aug. 

 18).— RiDGWAY, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 116.— Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, vi, 1881, 128 (Santa Lucia). — Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 

 1881, 239 (New England breeding range confined to Canadian fauna). — 

 Stearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 117 (int. Labrador, breeding). — (?) 

 BoucARD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 440 (Yucatan). — Dalcileish, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 179 (Nanortalik, Greenland; 1 spec. May, 1882).— 

 BicKNELL, Auk, i, 1884, 214 (song) .— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 

 344, 652, part (Tobago; Paraiso Station, Panama R. R. ; Medellin, Bogota, 

 and Minca, Colombia; Bartica Grove and Roraima, British Guiana, etc.). 



S[mrus] nievius Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 309. 



Semrus nsevius Turner, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 1885, 238 (Davis Inlet; 

 Moose Factory, Hudson Bay).— Wells, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 611 

 (Grenada, Lesser Antilles). 



\_Motac'dla^ novehoracensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1788, 958 (based on Fauvette 

 tuchetel', de la Louisiane, Daubenton, PL EnL, pi. 752, fig. 1). — Latham, 

 Index Orn., i, 1790, 362. 



[*Sii/Z('i«] noveboracensis Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 518. 



Sylvia noveboracensis Vieillot, Ois. Am., Sept., ii, 1807, 26, pi. 82. — Stephens, 

 Shaw's Gen. ZooL, x, 1817, 681.— Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 77. 



Turdus {Seiurus) noveboracensis (not Tardus noveboracensis Gmelin^) Nuttall, 

 Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 353, part. 



\^Currzica'] noveboracensis Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 1831, 418. 



Turdxis noveboracensis (not of Gmelin) Peabody, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 306. 



Seiurus noveboracensis Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 21. — Gosse, Birds 

 Jamaica, 1847, 151; Illustr. Birds Jam., 1849, pi. 28).— Jardine, Contr. 

 Orn., 1848, 82 (Bermudas, winter resid.). — Hurdis, Jardine' s Contr. Orn., 

 1850, 8 (Bermudas). — Hartlaub, Naumannia, 1852, 53 (Cuba). — Baird, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 261; ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), pi. 80, fig. 



' In the absence of si^ecimens from various localities cited in the synonymy it is 

 very difficult to make out with greater exactness the range of this form, the difficulty 

 being rendered still greater from the fact that both it and S. n. nofabilis often occur 

 together during migration. Nearly every one of the West Indian islands (including 

 tiie Bahama group) is represented among the specimens examined, together with the 

 following Central American localities: Guatemala ( Yzabal, January) ; Nicaragua (San 

 Juan del Sur, January 10; Sucuya, February 12; Greytown, February 5) ; Costa 

 Rica ( San Jose ) . The only Mexican specimen seen is one from tlie island of Cozumel, 

 Yucatan (January 29). The most western United States example examined is one 

 from Edinburgh, Texas (May). 



'^ — Locustella nxvia (Boddaert). 



*=Scolecophagus carolinus (Miiller). 



