SYNONYMY OP MNIOTILTA VARIA 205 



which is not known to occur in the Colorado Basin, are " Creeping 

 Warblers", showing certain slight peculiarities of the feet which 

 adapt them (at least one of them) to a mode of life quite like 



1862, 146. March, Pr. Phila, Acad. xv. 1863, 293 (Jamaica). Bd. Rev. AB. 1864, 167. 

 Scl. PZS. 1864, 172 (City of Mexico); 349 (Panama). Allen, Pr. Ess. Inst. iv. 1864, 59.- 

 Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. 1865, 174 (Chiriqui). Dresi. Ibis, 2d ser. i. 1865, 47G (Texas, 

 breeding). Mcllwr. Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1866, 85. Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y.viii. 1866, 233. 

 Salv. PZS. 1867, 135 (Veragua). Trippe, Am. Nat. ii. 1868, 171. Law. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 

 ix. 1868, 93 (Costa Rica). Coues, Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1868, 269. Coues, Pr. Bost. Soc. xii. 

 1868, 108. Allen, Am. Nat. iii. 1869, 509. Raymond, GeoL Surv. Indiana, 1869, 216. 

 Turnb. B. E. Pa. 1869, 23 ; Phila. ed. 16. v. Frantz. J. f. 0. 1869, 292 (Costa Rica). S. dk S. 

 PZS. 1870, 780 (Merida). Cope, Am. Nat. iv. 1870, 395, 396, 399. Parker, Am. Nat. v. 

 1871, 168. Trippe, Pr. Ess. Inst. vi. 1871, 114. Wyatt, Ibis, 3d ser. i. 1871, 322 (Her- 

 radura). Allen, Am. Nat vi. 1872, 265. Mayn. Pr. Bost Soc. xiv. 1872, 361. Scott, Pr. 

 Bost. Soc. xv. 1872,221 (West Virginia, breeding). Oundl J. f. 0. 1872, 411 (Cuba). 

 Allen, Bull. MCZ. iii. 1872, 175. Coues, Key, 1872, 92, f. 35. Snow, B. Kans. 1873, 4. 

 Ridg. Am. Nat. vii. 1873, 607. Trippe, Pr. Bost. Soe. xv. 1873, 234. Herrick, Bull. Ess. 

 Inst. v. 1873, (New Brunswick). CtottesBNW. 1874, 45. Merr. Am. Nat viii. 1874, 

 7, 86. Packard, ibid. 271. Allen. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1874, 52 (Dakota). B. B. < R. 

 NAB. i. 1874, 180, pi. 10, f. 6. Ames, Bull. Minnesota Acad. 1874, 55. Brew. Pr. Bost 

 Soc. xvii. 1875, 439.-awr. Bull. TT. S. Nat Mus. 1876, 15 (Tehuantepec). Gentry, Life- 

 Hist i. 1876, 91. Hinot, B. N. Eng. 1877, 97. 



Mniotilla varia, V. " EM. 1823, ". Less. Tr. Orn. 1831, 318. F. Gal. Ois. i. 1834, 276, pi. 

 169. Scl. PZS. 1858, 298 (Parada). Brewster, Ann. Lye. N. Y. xi. 1875, 134. 



Minotilta varia, S. <& S. Ibis, i. 1859, 10 (Guatemala). 



Miniotilta vara, Gregg, Proc. Elmira Acad. 1870. 



Sylvicola varia, Rich. " List, 1837 ".Bry. Pr. Bost Soc. xL 1867, 91 (St. Domingo). 



Nectarinia varia, Hahn, " Ausland. V6g. . . . ". 



Certhia picta, Bartr. Trav. Fla. 1st ed. 1791, 289 bis (see Coues, Pr, Phila. Aead. 1875, 347). 



Certhia maculata, Wile. AO. iii. 1811, 22, pi. 19, f. 3.-Bp. Journ. Phila. Acad. iv. 1824, 27. 

 Denny, PZS. 1847, 39. 



Oxyglossus maculatns, Sw. Zool. Journ. iii. 1827, 357 (type of the genus). 



Mniotilta borealis, Nutt. Man. i. 2d ed. 1840, 705. Hoy, Pr. Phila. Acad. vi. 1853, 312. 



Mniotilta varia vdr. longirostris, Bd. BNA. 1858, p. xxxi, n. 167. 



Ficedula dominicensis varia, Figuier varie de S. Domingue, Briss. Orn. iii. 1760, 529, n. 



69, pi. 27, f. 5. 



Figuier varie de St. Domingue, Buff. "Hist. Nat Ois. v. 305". 

 Black and White Creeper, Edw. "Glean.pl. 300". 

 White-poll Warbler, Penn. AZ. ii. 1785, n. 402, 293. 



Lath. Syn. ii. pt ii. 1783, 488, n. 114. 

 Small Black and White Bird, Sloane, "Jam. ii. 309, pi. 



265, f. 1 ". 



Mniotille varitf, V. L c. 



Orimpereau varie, V. "Ois. Dor. ii. , 111, pi. 74 ". 



Creeping Warbler, Northern Creeping Warbler, 



Nuttall, 11. cc. 

 Black-and-white Warbler, Black-and-white creep- ^M^ x 



ing Warbler, Black-and-white Creeper, 



Authors. 



FIG. 29. Black-and-white Creeper. 



HAB. Eastern North America. West to Dakota (Hayden, Allen), but not, 

 as far as known, to the Rocky Mountains, in any portion of the United States. 

 North to the Fur Countries. South through Mexico, various West India 

 Islands, and Central America, to New Grenada at least. Not observed on the 

 Pacific side north of Mazatlan. Breeds throughout its North American range. 

 Winters from the southern border of the United States to the limit of its 

 distribution. 



