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683. Icteria virens (Linn.). 



Yellow-breasted Chat. 



Turdus virens Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 171. 

 Icteria virens Baird, Rev. Am. B. I. April, 1865, 228. 



[B 176, C 100, R 123, C 144.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Eastern United States to the Plains, breeding north 

 to Ontario and southern New England ; south, in winter, to eastern 

 Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. 



683 a. Icteria virens longicauda (Lawr.). 



Long-tailed Chat. 



Icteria longicauda Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. VL 1853, 4. 

 Icteria virefis var. longicauda Coues, Key, 1872, 108. 



[B 177, C 100^, R 123^;, C 145.] 



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

 Pacific, north to southern Montana, Washington, and the dry interior 

 of British Columbia, south into Lower California and Mexico. 



Genus SYLVANIA Nuttall. 



Sylvania Nutt. Man. Land Birds, I. 1832, 290. Type, by 

 elimination, Muscicapa selbii Aud. = Motacilla mitrata Gmel. 



684. Sylvania mitrata (Gmel.). 



Hooded Warbler. 



Motacilla mitrata Gmel. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 977. 

 Sylvania mitrata Nutt. Man. Land B. ed. 1840, 2)ZZ' 



[B 211, C loi, R 124, C 146.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Eastern United States, west to the Plains, north and 

 east to southern Michigan, southern Ontario, western and south- 

 eastern New York, and southern New England. Breeds from the 

 Gulf of Mexico northward. In winter, West Indies, eastern 

 Mexico, and Central America to Panama. 



685. Sylvania pusilla (Wils.). 



Wilson's Warbler. 



Muscicapa pusilla Wils. Am. Orn. III. 18 11, 103, pi. 26, fig. 4. 

 Sylvania pusilla Nutt. Man. Land B. ed. 1840, 335. 



