230 MXIOTILTIDJE. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Above olive-greenish ; below Tawn-bufF, whitish on 



abdomen and olive-brown on sides of body ; top and 

 sides of head ochreous buff or fawn-colour, with a 

 black line through the eye and a broad black band 

 along the sides of the crown, leaving a central 

 baud of ochraceous buff vermivoms ,^1.250 . 



b. Russet-brown above ; yellowish below ; head rufous, 



with a faint paler streak on the forehead ; no black 



bands on crown sicainsoni, p. 232. 



1. Helmintliotherus verinivorus. 



The Worm-eater, Echv. Ghan. pt. ii. p. 200, pi. 305 (1760) ; Lath. 



Gen. Stjn. ii. pt. 2, p. 499 (178-3). 

 Le Figuier de Pensilvanie, Briss. Orn. vi. App. p. 102 (1760). 

 Le Demi-fin mangeur de vers, Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 325 (1778). 

 Worm-eater Warbler, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 406 (1785). 

 Motacilla vermivora, Gyn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 951 (1788). 

 Svlvia vermivora. Lath. Lnd. Orn. ii. p. 544 (1790) ; Wils. Amer. 

 'Orn. iii. p. 74, pi. 24. fig. 4 (1811) ; Vieill. N. Diet. Hist. Nat. 



xi. p. 278 (1817) ; Ntitt. Man. i. p. 409 (1832) ; And. Orn. Biogr. 



i. p. 177 (1832), v. p. 460 (1839). 

 Helmitheros migratorius, Rqfin. Journ. Phys. Ixviii. p. 417 (1819) ; 



Hartl. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 342. 

 Dacnis vermivora, Auduh. B. Amer., name on pi. 34. 

 Sylvicola vermivora, Richards. Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1836-37, p. 171. 

 Vermivora pennsvlvanica. Swains. Phil. Mag. 2nd ser. i. p. 434 



(1827) ; Jard. ed. Wils. Amer. Orn. i. p. 363 (1832) ; Bp. Camp. 



List B. JSur. Sr N. Amer. p. 20 (183S) ; Gosse, B. Jam. p. 150 



(1847) ; 3Iarch, Proc. Phil. Acad. 1863, p. 293. 

 Vermivora fidvicapHla, Stv. Classif. B. ii. p. 245 (1837). 

 Helinaia vermivora, Audub. Si/n. p. 66 (1839) ; id. B. Amer. ii. p. 86, 



pi. 105 (1841) ; Lembeye, Av. Cuba, p. 35, pi. 6. fig. 4 (1850). 

 Mniotilta vermivora, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 196 (1848); id. Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 239, no. 3463 (1869). 

 Helmitherus vermivorus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 314 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. 



Hein. i. p. 20, note (1850) ; Gundl. J. f. 0. 1855, p. 476 ; Baird, 



B. N. Amer. p. 252 (1858) ; Scl. P. Z. 8. 1859, p. 363 ; Scl. ^ Salv. 



Ibis, 1859, p. 11; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 28 (1862); Baird, Rev. 



Amer. B. p. 179 (1865) ; Laicr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 284 (1866) ; 



id. ibid. ix. p. 94 (1868) ; id. t. c. p. 200 (1869) ; Sumichr. Me7ti. Bast. 



Soc. N. H. i. p. 546 (1869; ; Gundl. J.f. 0. 1872, p. 412 ; Coues, Key 



N. Amer. B. p. 93 (1872) ; Maynard, B. Florida, p. 45 (1873) ; Scl. 



8f Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p.' 8 (1873) ; Coues, B. N.- West, p. 48 



(1874); Baird, Brewer, Sf Ridqio. Hist. N.Amer. B. i. p. 187, pi. 10. 



iig. 10 (1874) ; Gundl. Orn. Cuba, p. 63 (1876) ; Cory, B. Bahamas, 



p. 56 (1880); Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 171 (1830). 

 Helmintherus vermivorus, Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 135; Von Frantz. 



J.f. O. 1869, p. 293; Coues, B. Color. Vail. p. 211 (1878); id. 



Cheek-list, p. 34 (1882) ; id. Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 291 (1884). 

 Helminthotherus vermivorus, Salv.^- Godm. Biol. Centr.-Atner., Aves, 



i. p. 112 (1880) ; Ridgw. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 16 (1881) ; 



A. e^- E. Nezvt. Handb. Jamaica, p. 105 (1881) ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. 



Coll. p. 89 (1882). 



Adult male. General colour above olive, the wing-coverts like the 

 back ; greater coverts dusky, externally like the back ; bastard-wing 



