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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



OPORORNIS, Baird. 

 Oporornis, Baikd, Birds N. Am. 1858, 246. (Type Sylvia agilis, Wils.) 



Opororiiis agilis. 



Sylvia a<jilis, Wils. Am. Orn. V, 1S12-, 64, pi. xxxix, fig. 4.— Aud. Om. 

 Biog. II, pi. 138 ; Boa.— Si/lvicola ag. Jard. ; Acd. B. A. II, pi. 99. 

 — Trichas ag. Nutt. — Oporornis ag. Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 246, 

 pi. Ixxix, fig. 2.—? Trichas tephrocotis, Nutt. Man. 2d ed. 1840,462 

 (Chester Co., Penn.). 



Hah. Eastern province of United States. 



A specimen in the collection of the Philadelphia Academy, killed 

 by Mr. Krider, has the darker ash of the juguluni of a decided sooty 

 tino-e. 



(3J,031.) 5.20; 8.90; 2.90. 



Oporornis formosiis. 



? Sylvia a-quinoctialis, Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 26, pi. 81, Penn. 



(not of Gtmelin), 

 Sylvia formotu, Wils. Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 85, pi. xxv, fig. 3.— Nutt. ; 



Aud. Orn. Biog. I, pi. 38. — Sylvicolaformosa, Jard. ; Ricu. ; Bon. ; 



Max. Cab. Jour. VI, 1858, 113. — Myiodiortes formosus, Aud. Syn. — 



Ib. B. a. II, pi. 74. — Lembeye, Av. Cuba, 1850, 37. — Gundlach, Cab. 



Jour. 1861, 326 [Cnhdi).— Oporornis formosus, Baird, Birds >'. Am. 



185S, 247.— ScLATER & Salvin, Ibis, I, 1859, 10 (Guatemala). 

 Other Localities Cited:. Cuba, Cab. Jour. Ill, 472. — Mexico, Sclatek, 



Pr. 1862, 19. — Isthmus Panama, Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Lye. VII, 62. 



Huh. Eastern province of United States, north to Washington and Chicago ; 

 Cuba, Guatemala, and Isthmus Panama. Not recorded from Jamaica and 

 Mexico.. 



The Sylvia sequinoctiaUs of Yieillot (but not of Gmelin, which is 

 Geolhlypis scqui^ioct.) probably belongs here. The name, however, 

 is geographically inapplicable, and cannot be retained. 



