494 NOTE ON MUSCICAPA OCHROLEUCA GM. 



Vlreo (lanfvireo) flavJfrons, Bd. \959.-Guncll. J. f. O. ISfil, 324 (Cuba).— AJJen, Pr.Esa. 

 Inst. iv. 1864, iM.—Ridgw. Add. Lye. N. T. x. 1S74, 370 (Illinois). 



Lanivireo flaTifrons, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. T. ix. 18G8, 96 (Costa Rica).— r. Frantz.S.t.O. 

 1869, 295 (Costa Vdca.) .—Allen, Bull. MCZ. ii. 1871, 279 (Florida, winter).- B. B. di R. 

 NAB. i. 1874, 379, pi. 17, f. 5.— Brew. Pr. Bost. Soe. xvii. 1875, 440.— Lawr. Bull. Nat. 

 Mas. n. 4, 1876, 17 (Southwest- 

 ern Mexico). 



Vlreosylvla flavirrons, Bd. Rev. AB. 



1866, 346, ng.—Scl. PZS. 1870, 



184 (Veragna). 

 Tlreo fiavifiorcg, Gregg, Pr. Elmira 



Acad. 1870. 

 Sluscicapa sjivicola, Wils. AO. i. 



1808, 117, pi. 7, f. 3 (nee Bart.).— 



Bp. Journ. Phila. Acad. iv. 1824, 



173. 

 tGolden-thPoat Flycatcher, Penn. Fig. 55.- Fireo^at,i/ron., natural size. 



AZ. ii. 1785, 389, n. 276! (descr. orig. New York). 

 ? Golden-throated Flycatcher, Lath. "Syn. Supp. 17—, 173, n. 80".— Steph. Gen. Zool. x. 



1817, 376. 

 Fauvef te a gorge dor^e, Y. EM. 1. c. 446. 

 Gobe-inouche Jaan&tre de New-¥orck, V. EM. 1. c. 814. 

 Vireo k front jaune, Le Moine, Ois. Canad. 1861, 213. 

 ¥ellow»throated Vireo, Yellow-throated Greenlet, Authors. 



Hab. — Eastern United States and British Provinces ; west only to Iowa 

 and Kansas. Breeds in most if not all of its North American range. Win- 

 ters in Florida and southward, Mexico, Central America, and British Colum- 

 bia. Cuba (rare). 



Note. — It seems most likely that the proper name of this species is not 

 Vireo flav if rons V., as commonly supposed, but Vireo ochroleucus (Gm.). For, 

 as late critics of our nomenclature have generally failed to observe, Muscicapa 

 ochroleuca of Gmelin is based on the " Golden-throated Flycatcher " of Pen- 

 nant and Latham, which is described from " New York " in terms that can 

 hardly be misunderstood, and which is doubtless the present species. This 

 name ochroleuca, now indeed obsolete, was current for many years, espe- 

 cially with Vieillot, who reproduces it in various of his books, making of it 

 now a "Muscicapa", now a " Sylvia"; Gray quotes it in 1848 under "Mni- 

 otilta", and Stephens even goes so far as to quote "Muscicapa sylvicoJa Wils." 

 as its synonym I I think it as well established for the Yellow-throated Vireo 

 as either olivaceus or noveboracensis are for their respective species — better, in 

 fact, than olivaceus L. is, for that is a compound of Edwards and Catesby, 

 and unquestionably includes two species (see Baird, Eev. p. 335). We have 

 all accepted noveboracensis Gm., as based on the "Green Flycatcher" of 

 Pennant and the " Hanging Flycatcher " of Latham, which are scarcely or 

 not more satisfactorily identifiable with the White-eyed Vireo than this 

 "Golden-throated Flycatcher" of the same authors is with V. Jlavifrons ; 

 and I am strongly disposed to recommend that the above name, Vireo ochro- 

 leucus, be adopted. 



