208 SYNONYMY OF PARULA AMERICANA 



Blue Yellow-backed Warbler 



I'arnla aiiiericaiin 



Parus americanus, L. SN. i. 10th ed. 1758, 190, n. 3 (Gates, i. 64) ; i2th ed. 1766, 341, 

 n. 4. Gm. SX. i. 1788, 1007, n. 4 (Briss. hi. 522; Buff. v. 301; PE. 7:51, i. I). Turf. 

 SN. i. 1806, 622. Lath. IO. ii. 1790, 571, n. 28. 



Motacilla americana, Gm. SN. i. 1788, 960, n. 73 (Lath. Syn. ii. pt. ii. 440, n. 3t>). J^r;. 

 SN. i. 1806, 590. 



Sylvia americana, Lath. IO. ii. 1790, 520, n. 40. Bp. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 1826, 83. And. 

 OB. i. 1832, 78, pi. 15. Peab. Rep. Orn. Mass. 1839, 11. D'Orb. Ois. Cuba, 1839, G7. 

 Thomps. Verm. 1853, app. 24. 



Sylvicola americana, Rich. Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. for 1836, 1837, . Aud. Syn. 

 1839, 59. Aud. BA. ii. 1841, 57, pi. 91. Denny, PZS. 1847, 38. Woodh. Sitgr. Rep. 

 Znni, 1853, 71. Hoy, Pr. Phila. Acad. vi. 1853, 311 Read, ibid. 399 Pratten, Tr. Illi- 

 nois Agr. Soc. 1855, 602. -Putn. Pr. Ess. Inst. i. 1856, 207. Sci. PZS. 1857, 202 (Tlacotai- 

 pam, VeraCraz). Max. J. f. O. vi. 1858, 116. Martens, J. f. 0. 1859, 213 (Bermudas). 

 WiUis, Smiths. Rep. for 185, 1859, 282 (Nova Scotia). Bland, ibid. 287 (Bermudas). 

 Brew. Pr. Boat Soc. vii. 1860, 307 (Cuba). Hoy, Smiths. Rep. for 1864, 1865, 438 (Mis- 

 souri). Bry. Pr. Bost. Soo. x. 1856, 251 (Porto Rico). Bry. J. f. 0. 1866, 184 (the 

 same). Trippe, Pr. Ess. Inst. vi. 1871, 114 (Minnesota). 



Purala americana, Bp. CGL. 1838, 20. Gosse, B. Jam. 1847, 154. Bp. CA. i. 1850, 310.-^rf. 

 BNA. 1838, 238. S. dk A Ibis, i. 1859, 10 (Guatemala). A. & E. Newt. Ibis, i. 1859, 143 

 (St. Croix). Cats. Pr. Phila. Acad. xii. 1860, 376 (St. Thomas Island). Scl. PZS. 

 1861, 70 (Jamaica). Gundl. J. f. O. 1961, 326 (Cuba). Barn. Smiths. Rep. for I860, 

 1861, 435. Coues < Prent. Smiths. Rep. for 1861, 1862, 405. Hayd. Tr. Amer. Philos. 

 sJoc. xii. 186-2, 159. Verr. Pr. Ess. Inst. iii. 1862, 192. Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, 19-J 

 v Jamaica). March, Pr. Phila. Acad. xv. 1863, 293 (Jamaica). Verr. Pr. Bost. Soc. ix. 

 1863, 233 (Maine). Allen, Pr. Ess. Inst. iv. 1864, 59. Bd. Rev. AB. 1865, 169. 

 Dress. Ihis, 2d ser. i. 1865, 476 (San Antonio, Tex.). Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. 

 1866, 263. Mcllwr. Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1866, 85. Brew. Am. Nut. i. 1867, 117. 

 Trippe, Am. Nat. ii. 1868, 177. Coues, Am. Nat. ii. 1868, 161. Coues, Pr. Bost. Soc. 

 xii. 1868, 108. Cones, Pr. Ess. Inat. v. 1868,269. Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. T. ix. 1869, 

 200 (Yucatan). Turnb. B. E. Pa. 1869, 23 ; Phila. ed. 16 Oope, Am. Nat. iv. 1870, 395, 

 396, 397. Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad. xxiii. 1871, 20. Allen, Bull. MCZ. ii. 1871, 267 

 (Florida, wintering). Allen, Bull. MCZ. iii. 1872, 124, 175 (Kansas, .fee.). Allen, Am. 

 Nat. vi. 1872, 265. Scott, Pr. Bost. Soc. xv. 1872, 221 (West Virginia, in summer). 

 Aiken, Pr. Bost. Soc. xv. 1872, 196 (Colorado). Mayn. Pr. Bost. Soc. xiv. 1872, 361. 

 Qundl. J. f. 0. 1872, 411 (Cuba). Gouts, Key. 1872, 92. Trippe, Pr. Bost Soc. xv. 1873, 

 234. Herrick, Bull. Ess. Inst. v. 1873, (New Brunswick). Bidg. Bull. Ess. Inst. v. 

 1873, 180 (Colorado). Merr. Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 86. Packard, Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 

 271. Coues, BNW. 1874, 46. Ames, Bull. Minnesota Acad. 1874, 55. B. B. & B. NAB. 

 i. 1874, 208, figs. pi. 10, f. l.Brewster, Ann. Lye. N. Y. i. 1875, 134 (Virginia, probably 

 breeding). Atoe ton, Birds of Greenland, 1875?, 98 (one specimen from the Southern 

 Inspectorate in 1857). Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1875, 439. Gentry, Life-Hut. 1876, 

 94. Lawr. Bull. Nat. Mus. no. 4, 1876, 15 (Tehuantepec). Deane, Bull. Nuttall Club, 

 i. 187fi, 21 (albinotic). Minot, B. N. Engl. 1877, 99. 



Agreeably to the latest fashion, the bird will probably stand as pitiayumi 

 var. nigrilora; but its probable gradation into pitiayumi through Mexican and 

 Central American specimens remains to be shown. It is thoroughly distinct 

 from P. americana. 



This welcome and unexpected addition to our fauna was made by my 

 esteemed correspondent, Mr. George B. Sennett, during his collecting tour in 

 Texas in the spring of 1877, when other novelties and many interesting 

 points were brought to light through his diligent and successful enterprise. 

 Mr. Sennett secured three adult males at Hidalgo, Texas, some seventy miles 

 from Fort Brown, during the months of April and May. 



