324 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



IctSria virens (LINNAEUS). 



RANGE. United States, south in winter to Mexico and Central 

 America. 



a. Icteria virens virens (LINNAEUS). Yellow-breasted Chat. [683.] 



Turdus virens LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 171. (Carolina, 200 

 or 300 miles from the sea.) 



RANGE. Eastern North America. Breeds mainly in Upper and Lower 

 Austral zones from southern Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ontario, central 

 New York, and southern New England south to southeastern Texas, southern 

 parts of Gulf States, and northern Florida; winters from Puebla, Vera Cruz, 

 and Yucatan to Costa Rica; casual in Maine. 



b. Icteria virens longicauda LAWRENCE. Long-tailed Chat. [683a.] 



Icteria longicauda LAWRENCE, Ann. Lye. N. H. N. Y., VI, 1853, 4. (Cali- 

 fornia, probably near Sacramento or Stockton.) 



RANGE. Western United States. Breeds in lower Transition and 

 Sonoran zones from southern British Columbia, central Montana and North 

 Dakota south to Jalisco, Guanajuato, and Mexico, and east to central 

 Nebraska; winters on the tableland and west coast of Mexico from Chihuahua 

 to Oaxaca. 



GENUS WILSONIA BONAPARTE. 



Wilsonia BONAPARTE, Geog. & Comp. List., 1838, 23. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Motacilla mitrata GMELIN = Muscicapa citrina BODDAERT 

 (A. O. U. Committee, 1899). 



Wilsonia citrina (BODDAERT). Hooded Warbler. [684.] 



Muscicapa citrina BODDAERT, Table PI. Enl., 1783, 41. (Louisiana.) 



RANGE. Eastern United States. Breeds in Carolinian and 

 Austroriparian zones from southeastern Nebraska, southern Iowa, 

 southwestern Michigan, central New York, and the lower Connecticut 

 Valley south to Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia; winters from Vera 

 Cruz and Yucatan to Panama; occasional in the Bahamas, Cuba, 

 and Jamaica; casual north to Wisconsin, Michigan, Ontario, and 

 Massachusetts. 



