BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 183 



Eastern United State-s and more southern British provinces (humid 

 division of Lower and Upper Austral, Transition, and parts of Boreal 

 provinces); breeding" from Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, etc., north- 

 ward to Nova Scotia (?), Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick (?), 

 Province of Quebec (0, eastern Manitoba (?), etc.; south ii\ winter to 

 Gulf coast (Florida to eastern Texas); casual in Bermudas. 



\_Fi'ingilki] gramlnea Gjielin, Syst. Xat.,i, pt. ii, 1788, 922 (New York; based on 

 Grass i^'mc/t Latham, Gen. Synop.,ii, pt. i, 273; Pennant, Arctic Zool.,ii, 

 375) .—Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 445. 



Fvingilla graminea Audubox, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 473; v, 1839, 502, pi. 94. — Nuttall, 

 i\Ian. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 482. 



Emheriza graminea Wihsos, Am. Orn., iv, 1811, 51, pi. 31, tig. 5. — Audubon, Synop- 

 sis, 1839, 102; Birds Am., oct. ed., iii, 1841, 65, pi. 159.— Humns, Jardine's 

 Contr. Orn., 1850, 36 (Bermudas, 1 spec. Oct. 25, 1849).— Willis, Ann. Rep. 

 Smithson. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 287 (Bermudas). 



Zonotrkhia gramhiea S wuMSF., ed. Wilson's Am. Orn.,ii, 1832, 45, pi. 31, tig. 5. — 

 Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 31. 



Z. lonotrichia'] graminea Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 373. 



\_Zonotrichia'] graminea Bonaparte, Consp. Av.,i, 1850, 478, part. — (tray. Hard- 

 list, ii, 1870, 95, no. 7414. 



Poocictes gratnineus Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1850, 447, i)art. — Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874,545, part, pi. 29, fig. 1. — 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 540. — Batcheldeb, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 314 (Asheville, w. North Carolina, winter). — Cooke, Bird 

 Migr. 3Iiss. Val., 1888, 187 (localities and dates) .—Dwight, Auk, x, 1893, 11 

 (Prince Edward I., breeding). — Allen (F. H.), Auk, xii, 1895, 90 (Cape 

 Breton, Nova Scotia, Aug. ). — Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896,94, 

 pi. 23, fig. 5. — Knight, Bull. Univ. ]Maine, no. 3, 1897, 95 (Maine, summer 

 resid.). — Butler, Birds Indiana, 1897, 933 (wintering in Knox Co.). 



Poacetes gramineus Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 112, part (W^isconsin; Can- 

 ada). — Yerrill, Proc. Essex Inst., iii, 1862, 150 (Oxford Co., Maine, breed- 

 ing).— Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 164 (Wabash Co., Illinois, 

 breeding); vii, 1882, 20 (Knox Co., Indiana, breeding); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 



1881, no. 197.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 40 (descr. 

 young). — Maynard, Birds E. N. Am., 1881, 103. — Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 



1882, no. 232.— Chamberlain, Bull. Nat. Hist. Soc. N.B., 1882, 38 (Hamp- 

 ton, New Brunswiqk, 1 spec. June 20, 1881). — Butcher, Auk, i, 1884, 31 

 (Jones's Beach, Long Island, Feb. 22). — Bicknell, Auk, i, 1884, 330 (song). — 

 Merriam, Auk, ii, 1885, 315 (Godbout, Prov. Quebec, Apr. 24 to May 10. — 

 Sh.\rpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 670, excl. syn. part. 



Pooecetes gramineus Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, p. xxxix, part; Cat. 



N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 337, part.— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 161, part; 



Birds N. W., 1874, 129, par'- —Gill, Auk, xvi, 1899, 23. 

 {Pooecetes'] gramineus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 137, part. 

 Pooecetes gramineus Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1866, 286 (New York City). — 



MERRI.A.M, Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 9 (Aiken, South Carolina, winter). 

 P-loocaetes'] gramineus Ridgway, Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, Jan., 1874, 372 (Illinois). 

 P.^ocecetes'] gramineus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 364. 

 P. [ooctTfes] gramineus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 406. 

 [PooccVtes gramineus^ var. gramineus, Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, i, 1874, 545. 

 [Pooecetes gramineus] a. gramineus Coves, Birds N.W., 1874, 129 (synonymy). 



