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Whatever may have been the original of Wilson's Muscicapa 

 minuta there can be no question that no such bird as he described now 

 nests, as he supposed, in New Jersey. Of Kentucky, where Audubon 

 secured his specimen, so positive a statement is perhaps not 

 warranted, the recent discovery in that state of the nest of Bach- 

 man's Warbler indicating that our knowledge of its bird-life is still 

 far from complete. 



RED-BELLIED REDSTART 



MYIOBORUS MINIATUS MINIATUS (Swains.) 



A species of the Mexican tableland which was recorded from 

 "Texas" by Giraud ('Sixteen Species Texas Birds', 1841, pi. 7, fig. i), 

 but the seventy years which have passed since its alleged discovery in 

 what are now the United States make it reasonably sure that Giraud 

 did not get his specimen north of the present Mexican boundary, and 

 there seems to be no further excuse for extending to his record the 



'benefit of the doubt.' 







RED WARBLER 



ERGATICUS RUBER (Swtins.) 



Recorded from Texas by Giraud as Parus leucotis ('Sixteen 

 Species of Texas Birds,' 1841, pi. 4, fig. i), but there appear to be no 

 definite records north of Durango and Sinaloa. See remarks under 

 the preceding species. 



BRASHER'S WARBLER 



BASILEUTERUS CULICIVORUS BRASHERI (Giraud) 



A species of northeastern Mexico recorded from "Texas" by 

 Giraud ('Sixteen Species of Texas Birds,' 1841, pi. 6, fig. 2), but it 

 appears to be unknown north of Victoria, Tamaulipas. See remarks 

 under the two preceding species. 



BELL'S WARBLER 



BASILEUTERUS BELLI BELLI (Giraud) 



A species of southern Mexico recorded from "Texas" by Giraud 

 ('Sixteen Species of Texas Birds,' 1841, pi. 4, fig. 2), but it appears 

 to be unknown north of the State of Vera Cruz. See remarks under 

 preceding species. 



