306 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Helmitheros vermivorus (GMELIN). Worm-eating Warbler. [639.] 

 Motacilla vermivora GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 951. (Pennsylvania.) 



RANGE. Eastern North America. Breeds mainly in the Caroli- 

 nian Zone from southern Iowa, northern Illinois, eastern and western 

 Pennsylvania, and the Hudson and Connecticut River valleys south 

 to southern Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, and mountains of South 

 Carolina (casually further south); winters from Chiapas to Panama, 

 in Cuba and the Bahamas, and casually in Florida; in migration 

 casually to Massachusetts, Vermont, western New York, southern 

 Ontario, and southern Wisconsin. 



GENUS VERMIVORA SWAINSON. 



Vermivora SWAINSON, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, June, 1827, 434. Type, 

 by monotypy, Sylvia solitaria WILSON = Certhia pinus LINNAEUS. 



Vermivora b^chmani (AUDUBON). Bachman's Warbler. [640.] 



Sylvia bachmanii AUDUBON, Birds Amer. (folio), II, 1833, pi. 185. (Near 

 Charleston, S. C.) 



RANGE. Southeastern United States. Breeds in Austroriparian 

 Zone in southeastern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas, western Ken- 

 tucky, and near Charleston, South Carolina, and probably in southern 

 Indiana and North Carolina; winters in Cuba; in migration occurs in 

 Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida; casual in Virginia and 

 the Bahamas. 



Vermivora pinus (LINNAEUS). Blue-winged Warbler. [641.] 



Certhia pinus LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 187. (Philadelphia, 

 Pa.) 



RANGE. Eastern North America. Breeds from southeastern 

 Minnesota, southern Michigan, western New York, Massachusetts 

 (rarely), and southern Connecticut south to northeastern Kansas, 

 central Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware (casually fur- 

 ther south); winters from southern Mexico (Puebla) to Guatemala 

 and casually to Colombia; very rare migrant in southeastern United 

 States south of Virginia and east of Louisiana; occasional in southern 

 Ontario; accidental in the Bahamas. 



