ORDER PASSERES. 319 
Dendroica discolor (VIEILLOT). Prairie Warbler. [673.] 
Sylvia discolor Vin1Luot. Ois. Amer. Sept., II, 1807 (1809?), 37, pl. 98. 
(Eastern United States or Greater Antilles.) 
Rance.— Eastern United States and West Indies. Breeds chiefly 
in Carolinian and Austroriparian zones from southeastern Nebraska, 
eastern Kansas, southern Ohio, southwestern Pennsylvania, southern 
New Jersey, and (along the coast) from Massachusetts south to south- 
western Missouri, northern Mississippi, northwestern Georgia, Florida, 
and the Bahamas, and north locally to central Michigan, southern 
Ontario, and New Hampshire; breeds rarely and locally in the Gulf 
States; winters from central Florida through the Bahamas and the 
West Indies. 
GENus SEIURUS Swanson. 
Seturus Swainson, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, May, 1827, 369. Type, by 
subs. desig., Motacilla aurocapilla LinNmus (Swainson, 1827). 
Seiirus aurocapillus (LINN#%us). Oven-bird. [674.] 
Motacilla aurocapilla LinNxus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 334. (Near 
Philadelphia, Pa.) 
RanGE.— North America. Breeds in Canadian, Transition, and 
Upper Austral zones from southwestern Mackenzie (casually the lower 
Yukon Valley), northern Ontario, southern Ungava, and Newfound- 
land south to central Alberta, Colorado, Kansas, southern Missouri, 
Ohio Valley, Virginia, in mountains to Georgia and South Carolina, 
and east to the Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to Virginia; winters 
from central Florida (casually South Carolina) and islands on the 
Louisiana coast through the Bahamas and West Indies to St. Thomas, 
and from Nuevo Leon to Colombia; casual at Mazatlan, Sinaloa. 
Seiurus noveboracénsis (GMELIN). 
RanGcE.— North America, breeding mainly north of the United 
States; south in winter to northern South America. 
a. Seiurus noveboracensis noveboracensis (GMELIN). Water-Thrush. [675.] 
Motacilla noveboracensis GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 958. (Louisiana 
and New York.) 
