346 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



GENUS SAXICOLA BECHSTEIN. 



Saxicola BECHST. Orn. Taschb. 1803, 216. Type, Motacilla ccnan- 

 the LINN. 



765. Saxicola oenanthe (LINN.). 



Wheatear. 



Motacilla cenanthe LINN. S- N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 186. 

 Saxicola oenanthe BECHST. Orn. Taschb. 1803, 217. 



[Bi 57 , Ci 5 , R 2 i, C26.] 



HAS. Europe, North Africa, Asia, Alaska, Greenland, and Lab- 

 rador, straggling southward to Nova Scotia, Maine, Long Island, and 

 the Bermudas. 



GENUS SIALIA SWAINSON. 



Sialia SWAINS. Phil. Mag. I. May, 1827, 369. Type, Motacilla sialis 

 LINN. 



766. Sialia sialis (LINN.). 



Bluebird. 



Motacilla sialis LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 187. 

 Sialia sialis HALDEM. TREGO'S Geog. Penn. 1843, 77- 



[B 158, C 1 6, R 22, C 27.] 



HAB. Eastern United States to the eastern base of the Rocky 

 Mountains, north to Manitoba, Ontario, and Nova Scotia, south, in 

 winter, from the Middle States to the Gulf States and Cuba. Ber- 

 mudas, resident. 



766 a. Sialia sialis azurea (SWAINS.). 



Azure Bluebird. 



Sialia azurea SWAINS. Phil. Mag. I. 1827, 369. 



Sialia sialis var. azurea B. B. & R. Hist. N. Am. B. I. Jan. 1874, 62. 



[B -, C -, R - C -.] 

 HAB. Southern Arizona and Eastern Mexico. 



767. Sialia mexicana SWAINS. 



Western Bluebird. 



Sialia mexicana SWAINS. Fauna Bor. Am. II. 1831, 202. 



