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RANGE. Eastern North America. Breeds in Canadian Zone from 

 southern Mackenzie, northern Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova 

 Scotia south to Manitoba, northern Maine, and New Hampshire, 

 and in Jamaica; winters in the Bahamas and the West Indies to 

 Tobago; accidental in Yucatan. 



SUBGENUS DENDROICA. 



Dendroica sestiva (GMELIN). 



RANGE. North America; in winter south to Central and South 

 America. 



a. Dendroica sestiva sestiva (GMELIN). Yellow Warbler. [652.] 



Motacitta cestiva GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 996. (Canada.) 



RANGE. North and South America. Breeds from Hudsonian through 

 Upper Austral Zone in North America east of Alaska and Pacific slope from 

 tree limit south to Nevada, northern New Mexico, southern Missouri, and 

 northern South Carolina; winters from Yucatan to Guiana, Brazil, and Peru. 



b. Dendroica sestiva sonorana BREWSTER. Sonora Yellow Warbler. [652a.] 



Dendroica cestiva sonorana BREWSTER, Auk, V, April, 1888, 137. (Sep- 

 arates publ. Feb. 10.) (Oposura, Sonora, Mexico.) 



RANGE. Western North America. Breeds in Lower Austral Zone of Lower 

 California, Sonora, Chihuahua, southern Arizona, New Mexico, and western 

 Texas; winters from Mexico south to Guatemala and Nicaragua. 



c. Dendroica sestiva rubiginosa (PALLAS). Alaska Yellow Warbler. [6526.] 



Motacitta rubiginosa PALLAS, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiatica, I, 1826 (1811?), 

 496. (Kadiak, Alaska.) 



RANGE. Pacific slope of North America. Breeds mainly in Canadian Zone 

 throughout most of Alaska and south to Vancouver Island; winters from Mex- 

 ico to Nicaragua. 



d. Dendroica sestiva brewsteri GRINNELL. California Yellow Warbler. [652c.] 



Dendroica cestiva brewsteri GRINNELL, Condor, V, 1903, 72. (Palo Alto, 

 California.) 



RANGE. Breeds in Transition and Upper Sonoran zones west of the Cas- 

 cades and the Sierra Nevada from Washington to southern California; winter 

 home unknown. 



