212 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



RANGE. Southern Arizona south through western Mexico to Oaxaca; 

 accidental in Colorado. 



GENUS SAYORNIS GRAY. 



Sayornis GRAY, Cat. Gen. Birds, 1855, 146. Type, by orig. desig., Mus- 

 cicapa saya BONAPARTE. 



Sayornis phdebe (LATHAM). Phoebe. [456.] 



Muscicapa phoebe LATHAM, Index Orn., II, 1790, 489. (New York.) 



RANGE. Eastern North America. Breeds from southwestern 

 Mackenzie, Alberta, southern Keewatin, Ontario, Quebec, New 

 Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island south to north- 

 eastern New Mexico, central Texas, northern Mississippi, and high- 

 lands of Georgia; winters in United States south of latitude 37 south 

 to Vera Cruz and Oaxaca; in migration casual west to Colorado and 

 Wyoming; accidental in California and Cuba. 



Sayornis sayus (BONAPARTE). Say's Phoebe. [457.] 



Muscicapa saya BONAPARTE, Amer. Orn., I, 1825, 20. (Arkansas River, 

 20 miles from the Rocky Mountains.) 



RANGE. Western North America. Breeds from central Alaska, 

 northwestern Mackenzie, northeastern Alberta, southeastern Sas- 

 katchewan, and central North Dakota south to Lower California, 

 Arizona, southern New Mexico, western Iowa, and western Kansas ; 

 winters from central California, southern Arizona, southern New 

 Mexico, and central Texas to southern Lower California, Vera Cruz, 

 and Puebla; accidental in Wisconsin, Missouri, and Massachusetts. 



Sayornis nigricans (SWAINSON). Black Phoebe. [458.] 



Tyrannula nigricans SWAINSON, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, May, 1827, 367. 

 (Tableland of Mexico.) 



RANGE. Western North America. Breeds in Upper and Low r er 

 Sonoran zones from southwestern Oregon through California west of 

 the Sierra to Cape San Lucas, east through southern California and 

 Arizona to southern New Mexico and central Texas, and over Mexico 

 (except Gulf coast) to Yucatan. 



