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specimens ever obtained were doubtless those in the Berlin Museum, 

 sent from Keal Ariba and Lagimas by Deppe before the year 1830, to 

 which Lichtenstein attached, unfortunately in manuscript only, the 

 appropriate name of Sylvia chrysophrys. This name remained un- 

 published until Bonaparte used it in his ' Conspectus,' in 1850, too 

 late for adoption, as Mr. Sclater long ago pointed out.^ 

 I Few of the numerous references in the literature, as in part listed 

 above, have really added anything to our knowledge of this species. 

 Giraud's type specimen is now much faded; the color of the upper 

 parts, however, is darker than in fresh specimens. There is no ground 

 for believing that it could have come from " Texas," as Giraud 

 claimed. I therefore suggest that the type locality be fixed as Mount 

 Orizaba, Vera Cruz, whence came the specimens collected by Botteri. 

 Later collectors have traced it northward to Tamaulipas, southward 

 to Oaxaca, and on the Pacific side even to Jalisco. Mr. Ridgway, in 

 his great work on the " Birds of North and Middle America," under- 

 took to separate these Pacific birds under the name clarus, but I fail 

 to discover any real differences between specimens from Vera Cruz 

 on the one hand and Guerrero on the other, after handling the same 

 material as he did. 



The Bell Warbler appears to belong to the zone called by Sumichrast 

 ill Vera Cruz the " Temperate Region," and to be an inhabitant of 

 low brush and thickets, where it has much the habits of the Maryland 

 yellowthroat. Nothing appears to be on record concerning its nest 

 and eggs. 



Specimens examined. — "Texas": 1 (type of species). Mexico: 

 Jalapa, Vera Cruz, 2; Mount Orizaba, Vera Cruz, 4; Jico, Vera Cruz, 

 i; Carricitos, Tamaulipas, 2; Galindo, Tamaulipas, 1; Montalunga, 

 Tamaulipas, 2; Mount Zempoaltepec, Oaxaca. 4; Reyes, Oaxaca, 1; 

 Mount Tancitaro, Michoacan, 1; Huitzilac, Morelos, 1; Mountains 

 near Chilpancingo, Guerrero, 3 (including type of B. h. clarus) ; 

 Omiiteme, Guerrero, 2; San Sebastian, Jalisco, 1; Ajusco, Mexico, 1; 

 unspecified, 2. Total, 29. 



BASILEUTERUS BELLI SCITULUS Nelson 



Basileuterus belli (not Musoic^pai belli Giraud) Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 

 1860, p. 31, excl. syn. (Coban, Guatemala). — Baird, Rev. Amer. Birds, 

 1865, p. 250, part (Coban, Guatemala), — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Hist. N. Amer. Birds, vol. 1, 1874, p. 313, part (Guatemala, in range). — 

 BouoARD, Ann. Soo. Liim. Lyon, n. s., vol. 25, 1878, p. 40 (Guatemala). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, vol. 1, 1881, p. 174, part 

 (Guatemalan localities and ref s. ; habits, etc.). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., vol. 10, 1885, p. 395, part (Guatemalan localities and refs.). 



* Salvin and Godman, Biologia Centrall-Americana, Aves, vol. 1, 1881, p. 174. 



