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(Boulton, Stansbury Island, and the Uinta Valley near Vernal) ; south- 

 western Wyoming (Green River; it has occurred at Torrington in the 

 eastern part of the State); southern Colorado (Cortez and Pueblo; 

 occurrences have been recorded at Two Bar Spring, Moffat County, 

 Grand Junction, and Boulder); western and central Oklahoma (near 

 Kenton, Oklahoma City, and Ponca); eastern Kansas (Wichita, Man- 

 hattan, and Blue Rapids); southeastern Nebraska (Lincoln and 

 Omaha); northern Iowa (Hawarden, one record, Grinnell, and Na- 

 tional); southeastern Minnesota (Minneapolis, Marine, and Fron- 

 tenac); southern Wisconsin (Madison and Milwaukee; occasionally 

 north to New London) ; southern Michigan (Grand Rapids, Lansing, 

 Ann Arbor, and Plymouth); extreme southern Ontario (Mitchells 

 Bay, Plover Mills, and Hamilton); western New York (Geneva); 

 southwestern Pennsylvania (Beaver and Harmarville) ; and northern 

 New Jersey (Somerset and Essex Counties). East to eastern New 

 Jersey (Essex County, Sea Isle City and Cape May) ; and the Atlantic 

 Coast States to central Florida (New Smyrna and Deer Park) ; and 

 the Bahama Islands (Abaco and New Providence). South to the 

 Bahama Islands (New Providence); central Florida (Deer Park and 

 Braden River) ; Cozumel Island, Mexico, and Yucatan (Chichen Itzd) ; 

 Tabasco (Balancan) ; Chiapas (Palenque) ; Oaxaca (Oaxaca) ; and Lower 

 California (Cape San Lucas). West to Lower California (Cape San 

 Lucas, Comondu, and the Sierra San Pedro Martir); and western 

 California inside the Coast Range (San Diego, Pasadena, Stockton, 

 Napa, and Covelo). 



In addition there are many records of individuals north of any 

 known breeding localities. Many of these are late in summer or in 

 fall and suggest the possibility that some may be individuals that have 

 wandered north after the breeding season; some are probably migrat- 

 ing from nesting sites that man has not found. These records extend 

 north to Sault Ste. Marie; Mackinac Island and Douglas Lake, 

 Michigan; Goderich and Toronto, Ontario; Montreal and Quebec, 

 Quebec; and the coast of New England as far north as Portland, 

 Maine. 



Winter range. — The blue-gray gnatcatcher is found in winter north 

 to central California (Muir Beach, Marin County; Kettleman Hills, 

 Death Valley, and Needles); two specimens taken at Ashland, Oreg., 

 February 4, 1881, are in the British Museum; southern Arizona 

 (Papago Indian Reservation, Tucson, and the Rincon Mountains); 

 Sonora (Punta Penascosa and Tesia); Sinaloa (Caliacan); Jalisco 

 (Ocotlan); Nuevo Le6n (Monterey and Rodriguez); Tamaulipas 

 (Nuevo Laredo and Camargo); southern Texas (Brownsville and 

 rarely San Antonio) ; southern Louisiana (Chenier au Tigre, Lecompte, 

 and New Orleans); Mississippi (Bay St. Louis and Biloxi); northern 



