SYNONYMY OF MNIOTILTA VARIA 205 



which is not known to occur in the Colorado Basin, are " Creeping 

 Warblers", showing certain slight peculiarities of the feet which 

 adapt them (at least one of them) to a mode of life quite like 



1862, 146.— March, Pr. Phila. Acad. xv. 1863, 293 (Tamaica).— Bd. Eev. AB. 1864, 167.— 

 Scl. PZS. 1864, 172 (City of Mexico); 349 (Panama).— AJJen, Pr. Ess. Inst. iv. 1864, 59. - 

 Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. T. viii. 1865, 174 (Cliiriqai).— -Dre««. Ibis, 2d ser. i. 1865, 47G (Texas, 

 breeding).— IfcJiwr. Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1S66, 6^.— Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. T.viii. 1866, 2^3.— 

 Salv. PZS. 1867, 135 (Veragna).- Tri^pe, Am. ISTat. ii. 1868, 171.— iawr. Ann. I<yc. N. T. 

 ix. 1868, 93 (Costa Kica).— Oowes, Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1868, 269.— Cottes, Pr. Bost. Soc. xii. 

 1858, lOS.— Allen, Am. Nat.iii. 1869, 509.— Raymond, Geol. Sarv. Indiana, 1869,216.— 

 Turnb. B. E. Pa. 1869, 23 ; Phila. ed. 16.- 1>. Frantz. J. f. 0. 1869, 292 (Costa Rica) .—& <& S. 

 PZS. 1870, 780 (Merida).— Cope, Am. Nat.' iv. 1870, 395, 396,399.— ParJker, Am. Nat. v. 

 1871, 168.— IVippe, Pr. Ess. Inst. vi. 1871, lU.—Wyatt, Ibis, 3d ser. i. 1871, 322 (Her- 

 radura).— AiZen, Am. Nat. ri. 1872, 265.— ifai/n. Pr. Bost. Soc. xiv. 1872, 361.— 5co«, Pr. 

 Bost. Soc. XV. 1872,221 (West Virginia, breeding).— GundZ. J. f. 0. 1872, 411 (Cuba).— 

 Allen, Bull. MCZ. iii. 1872, 175.— Cowes, Key, 1872, 92, f. "i^.—Srww, B. Kans. 1873, 4.— 

 Ridg. Am. Nat. vii. 1873, 601.— Trippe, Pr. Bost. Soc. xv. 1873, 234.— fferrici, Bull. Ess. 

 Inst. V. 1873, — (New Brunswick).— Oo!t«s BNW. 1874, 45.— Merr. Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 

 7, 86.— Packard, ibid. ^11.— Allen. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1874, 52 (Dakota).— B. B. <£ B. 

 NAB. i. 1874, 180, pi. 10, f. 6.— Awes, Bull. Minnesota Acad. 1874, 55.— Brew. Pr. Bost. 

 Soc. xvii. 1875, 439.-^310/. Bull. F. S. Nat. Mus. 1876, 15 (Tehuantepec).- (Jewtrj/, Life- 

 Hist. i. 1876, 91.— Minot, B. N. Eng. 1877, 97. 



MniOtnia varia, V. " EM. 1823, — ".—Less. Tr. Orn. 1631, 318.— F. Gal. Ois. i. 1834, 276, pi. 

 169.—Scl. PZS. 1858, 298 (Parada).— Brejcster, Ann. Lye. N. Y. xi. 1875, 134. 



Minotilta varia, S. <£ S. Ibis, i. 1859, 10 (Guatemala). 



Miniotilta vara, Gregg, Proc. Elmira Acad. 1870. 



Sylvicola varia, Rich. " List, 1837 ".—Bry. Pr. Bost. Soc. xL 1867, 91 (St. Domingo). 



Nectarinia varia, Bahn, " Ausliind. V6g. . . . ". 



Certhia pictii, Bartr. Trav. Fla. 1st ed. 1791, 289 bis (see Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1875, 347). 



Certhia maculata, Wils. AO. iii. 18il, 22, pi. 19, f. 3.—Bp. Joum. Phila. Acad. iv. 1824, 27.— 

 Benny, PZS. 1847, 39. 



OxyglOSSUS maculatUS, Siv. Zool. Joum. iii. 1827, 357 (type of the genus). 



Mniotilta borealis, Ifutt. Man. i. 2d ed. 1840, I05.—Hoy, Pr. Phila. Acad. vi. 1853, 312. 



Mniotilta varia var. longirostris, Bd. BNA. 1858, p. xxxi, n. 167. 



Ficedula dominicensis varia, Figuier varie de S. Domingue, J5ms. Orn. iii. 1760, 529, n. 

 69, pi. 27, f. 5. 



Piguier varie de St. Domingue, JBm/. "Hist. Nat. Oiav. 305". 



Black and Wliite Creeper, Ediv. "Glean, pi. 300". 



White-poll Warbler, Penn. AZ. ii. 1785, n. 402, 293.— 

 Lath. Syn. ii. pt. ii. 1783, 488, d. 114. 



Small Black and White Bird, Sloane, "Jam. ii. 309, pi. 

 265, f. 1". 



Mniotille varit, T. 1. c. 



Grinipereau varie, T. " Ois . Dor. ii. — , 111, pi. 74 ". 



Creeping V/arbler, Northern Creeping Warbler, 

 Nuttall, 11. cc. 



Black«and-white Warbler, Black-and-white creep- 

 ing Warbler, Black-and-white Creeper, 

 Authors. 



Fig. 29. -Black-and-white Creeper. 



Hab.— Eastern North America. West to Dakota (Hayden, Allen), but not, 

 as far as known, to the Rocky Mountains, in any portion of the United States. 

 North to the Fur Countries. South through Mexico, various West India 

 Islands, and Central America, to New Grenada at least. Not observed on the 

 Pacific side north of Mazatlan. Breeds throughout its North American range. 

 Winters from the southern border of the United States to the limit of its 

 distribution. 



