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List of specimens. 



Wind River 



Wind River Mts. 

 R.Buttes Platte.. 



May 29, 1860 

 Jnue 6, 18C0 

 May 12, 1860 



F. V. Hayden 

 do 



G. H. Trook.. 



Lieutenant Warren's Exjjedition. — 8826, Laramie Peak; probably about the eastern 

 limit of the species. 

 Later Expeditions. — 60701, Fort Bridger; 62345-6, Wyoming. 



In most localities tlirougli its range, this species is as common as its 

 Eastern representative, D. coronata, with which it corresponds precisely 

 in habits. 



The only nest of this species that I have seen is in the Smithsonian, 

 from Vancouver's Island, where it was secured by Mr. Hepburn. It is 

 built in the crotch formed by three forks of an oblique stem, and is ob- 

 liquely conical in shape to correspond. The exterior is rather coarse 

 fibrous strips of bark and weeds, variously intertwined; the main sub- 

 stance is of tine grasses and mosses, mixed with large feathers and 

 twine, and the interior is lined with an abundant deposit of horse-hair. 



DEXDRCECA BLACKBURNI^, (Gm.) Bd. 



Blacliburiiian Warbler. 



Motacilla hlaclchitrniw, Gm., Syst. Nat. i, 1788, 977. 



Si/lL-iahlaclhurnia', Lath., lud. Oru. ii, 179U, 527.— Vieiix., Ois. Am. Sept. ii, 1807,36, 



pi. 90.— Wtls., Am. Oru. iii, 1811, 64, pi. 23, f. 3.— Bp., ttyu. 1828, 80.— Nutt., 



Man. i, 1832, :379.— AuD., Oru. Biog. ii, 1834, 208; v, 1839, 73; pis. 135, 399. 

 Sjjhicola hlackhitrnia', Jamd., ed. Wils. 1832. — Rich., List, 1837. — Bp., List, 1838,22; Consp. 



1850, 307.— Aui)., Syn. 1839, 57.— Aud., B. Am. ii, 1841, 48, pi. 87.— Hoy, Smiths. 



Rep. 1864, 438 (Missouri). 

 Mniotilta hlaclchurniiv, Gkay, G. of B. 

 lUtimatqyinni hlackhnrnia; Cab., Mus. Hein. i, 1850, 19; J. f. O. 1860, 328 (Qosta Rica).— 



SCL., P. Z. S. 1S55, 143 (Bogota) ; 1856, 130 ( Veragua). 

 Dendroica blachbimtia', Bix, B. N. A. 1858, 274; Rev. 1865, 189. -ScL., P. Z. S. 1859, 363 



(Xalapa); 1860, 64 (Ecuador); Cat. 1862, 30.— Sol. & «alv., Ibis, i, 1859, 11 



(Guateuuila) ; P. Z. S. 1870, 780 (Merida).— Bi:yaxt, Pr. Bost. Soc. vii, 18."j9 



(Bahamas).-— Lawij., Ann. Lye. vii, 62 (Panama); ix, 1868, 94 (Costa Rica). — 



SuMicn., Mem. Bost. Soc. i, 1869, 547 (Orizaba, rare).— Mcli.wn., Pr. Ess. Inst. 



vi, 1866, 85 (migratory at Hamilton, C. \V.). — Allex, Pr. Ess. lust, iv, 1864,62 



(chieliy migratory, but some breed in Massachusetts). — Ai.r.r.N, Bull. M. C. Z. 



iii, 1872, 175 (Kansas and Utah). — CoiKS, Key, 1872, 100; aud of most late 



writers. 

 Syh-ia 2)arus, Wils., Am. Orn. v, 1812, 114, pi. 44, f. 3.— Bp., Syn. 1828, 82.— NfXT., i, 



392.— Aun., Orn. Biog. ii, 1834, 205, pi. 134. 

 St/hicola parus, Aud., Syn. 1839, 55.— Aid., B. Am. ii, 1841, 40, pi. 83.- Emm., Cat. B. 



Mass. 1835, 3.— Pkais., Rep. B. Mass. 1839, 310.— Lixsl., Cat. B. Conn., Am. 



.Jonrn. Sci. xliv, 1843, 257.— Pi rx., Pr. Ess. Inst, i, 1856, 226. 

 MniotiUa panix, Gi;av, Genera of Birds. 

 Iiliiniaiiii)hiin punm, Hp., Cous)). i, IdjO, :511. 

 Sylvia latrnilis, Sthpii., Shaw's Gen. Zoo), xii, 1817, 6.59. 

 ^^{i) Alotacilhi vhrtisoecphala it incana" Gm., i, 1788, 971 and 976. — Also of Latua:\i aud 



Vli:iLL()T. 



"i^) Syh-ia viilanorhoa," Vieili.,, Nouv. Diet, xi, 1817, 180; Enc. Met. ii, 1823, 444. 



//«?).- Eastern I'uited Statesand P.ritish provinces. West to Kansas and I'tah {.lllcii). 

 Breeds from Massachusetts northward, and apparently in the mountains of tlu^ Muldle 

 States. Winters in ilexico aud Central Auunica. Scarcely West Indian (liryaiit). 



As is now well known, Wilson described the young of this species as 

 the "Hemlock Warbler,'' *S'. jxinis., in wliit-h he was Ibllowcd l)_v many 

 writers. Audubon magnilied the error by uniting wilh it the autiunnal 

 Warbler of Wilson, which is the young of the Baybicasted. liona- 

 paite did still worse, in putting the "Hemlock Warbler"' in a diti'ereut 

 genus. 



