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Catharista atrata Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 3, No. 16. — Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, 

 and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, 351; Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. 

 New York, x, 1874, 381 (Illinois); Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xvi, 1874, 

 26 (lower Wabash Valley); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 195; Nom. 

 North Amer. Birds, 1881, No. 455; Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 492.— Brewer, 

 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xvii, 1875, 445 (accidental, Massachusetts; 

 Maine). — Lawrence, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 4, 1875, 44 (ubiquitous, 

 Tehuantepec, sw. Mexico). — Langdon, Journ. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 1879, 14 (Cincinnati, Ohio; sev. records). — Brown, Bull. Nuttall Orn. 

 Club, vii, 1882, 41 (Boerne, Kendall County, sw. Texas, common).— Coues, 

 Check List North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1882, No. 538; Key North Amer. 

 Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 560.— Fox, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 192 (Look- 

 out Mountain, e. Tennessee, common). — Wheaton, Rep. Birds Ohio, 1882, 

 579 (Ohio; listed).— Cory, List Birds West Indies, 1885 and rev. ed., 1886, 

 23 (Jamaica).— Goss, Auk, ii, 1885, 311 (Ellis, w. Kansas, March 27. 1885).— 

 Thompson, Auk, ii, 1885, 109 (Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 4, 1881). — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, and ed. 2, 1895, No. 326, 125.— 

 Butler, Bull. Brookville Soc. Nat. Hist., No. 2, 1886, 22 (Franklin County, 

 Ind., Dec, Feb., April); Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. for 1894 (1895), 166 

 (Monrovia, Morgan County, Ind., 3 spec, Nov. 24, 1894); Rep. State 

 Geol. Indiana for 1897 (1898), 768 (Brookville, Ind., May 17, 1897; Knox, 

 Monroe, Decatur, Franklin, and Orange Counties; Morgan County, Nov. 24, 

 1894; Putnam County, Nov. 18, 1896, common at Bicknell, Knox County, 

 since 1889; breeding in Knox and Gibson Counties and near Brookville). — 

 Cory, Auk, iv, 1887, 51 (West Indian references and localities; descr.); 

 Birds West Indies, 1889, 209 (Jamaica?); Auk, viii, 1891, 294 (Cuba).— 

 Sennett, Auk, iv, 1887, 25 (descr., downy young). — Goss, Hist. Birds 

 Kansas, 1891, 245 (Kansas; rare summer resident; eggs; records; descr.; 

 habits). — Attwater, Auk, ix, 1892, 233 (San Antonio, Tex., common 

 resident). — Dutcher, Auk, x, 1893, 82 (Calais, Maine, Nov. 1892; sixth 

 record!). — Richmond, Proc U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 522 (Rio Escondido, 

 Nicaragua). — Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vi, 1894, 69 (Trinidad; 

 habits). — GuRNEY, List Diurn. Birds Prey, 1894, 5; Cat. Birds of Prey, 

 1894, 17.— DiONNE, Auk, xv, 1898, 53 (near Quebec, Canada, Oct. 23, 

 1897).— Piers, Auk, xv, 1898, 196 (Pugwash, Cumberland County, Nova 

 Scotia, Jan. 12, 1896).— Ihering, Rev, Mus. Paulista, iii, 1899, 340 (Sao 

 Paulo, s. Brazil); iv, 1900, 90 (descr., eggs), 102 (Cantogallo, Sao Paulo).— 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1901, 132 (Mexican, 

 Central American, and West Indian localities and references). — Storer, 

 Auk, xxiii, 1906, 222 (Waltham, Mass., Sept. 15, 1905).— Reiser, Denkw. 

 Mat.-Nat. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 1910, 88 (Rio Preta, ne. Brazil). — Snethlage, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., Ixxvi, 1928, 553, 572, part (eggs, breeding seasons, S, 

 Amer.). — del Campo, Anales Inst. Biol., viii, No. 3, 1937, 337 (Morelos; 

 Cuernavaca; spec). 



Catharistes atratus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., i, 1874, 24 ("North America"; 

 Costa Rica; Chile; Argentina); Linn. Soc. Journ. Zool., xiii, 1876, 19, map 3, 

 part (geogr. range). — Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., ix, 1877, 47 (s. Illinois: 

 Mount Carmel). — Boucard, Liste Ois. recol. Guat., 1878, 21 (Guatemala; 

 habits); Proc. Zool. Soc London, 1878, 45 (Costa Rica); 1883, 457 (Yuca- 

 tdn).— Ridgway, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 166 (breeding in Little 

 Cypress Swamp, Knox County, Ind.). — Taczanowski, Orn. P^rou, i, 1884, 

 84. — Frenzel, Journ. fiir Orn., 1891, 115 (C6rdoba, Argentina). — Beristain 

 and Laurencio, Mem. y Rev. Soc. Cient. "Antonio Alzate," vii, Nos. 7-8, 



