1 86 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[B 137, C253, R 318, C 380.] 



Geog. Dist. — North America, breeding from the northern and 

 the higher mountainous parts of the United States northward to 

 British Columbia and the Saskatchewan River. Accidental on the 

 Lower Yukon and in Greenland. In winter, south to Central 

 America, Colombia, and northern Peru. 



Subgenus CONTOPUS Cabanis. 



460. Contopus pertinax Cab. 



Coues's Flycatcher. 



Myiarchus pertinax Light. Nomen. Mus. Berol. 1854, 16 (nomen 



nudum). 

 Contopus pertinax Cab. Mus. Hein. II. Sept. 30, 1859, 72. 



[B-, C254, R319, C381.] 



Geog. Dist. — Mountains of southern and central Arizona, south 

 through Mexico to Guatemala. 



461. Contopus virens (Linn.). 



Wood Pewee. 



Muscicapa virens Linn. S. N. ed. 12, I. 1766, 327. 

 Contopus virens Cab. J. f. O. 1855, 479. 



[B 139, C255, R320, C382.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Eastern North America, west to the Plains, and 

 from southern Canada southward, migrating through eastern Mexico 

 and Honduras to Colombia and Ecuador. Breeds from Florida to 

 Newfoundland. 



462. Contopus richardsonii (Swains.). 



Western Wood Pewee. 



Tyra7inula richardso?iii Swains, in Sw. & Rich. F. B. A. II. 



1831, 146, pi. 46, lower .fig. 

 Contopus richardsonii Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 189. 

 [B138, C255«,R 321, C 383.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Western United States, from the Plains to the 

 Pacific, north to British Columbia and the interior of British America, 

 south through Central America to Colombia. 



