326 SYNONYMY OP MYIODIOCTES PUSILLUS 



Myiodioctes ? minntus. Small-headed Flycatcher." 



Muscicapa minuta, Wils. AO. vi. 1812, 62, pL 50, f. 5. Bp. Journ. Phila. Acad. iv. 1624, 

 179. Nutt. Man. i. 1832, 29C. And. OB. v. 1839, 291, pi. 434, f. 2. And. Syn. 1839, 44. 

 Peab. Rep. Orn. Mass. 1839, 296 (Massachusetts, auct. Brewer).- And. BA. i. 1840, 

 238, pi. 67. Putn. Pr. Ess. Inst i. 1856, 226. 



Sylvia minuta, Bp. Journ. Phila. Acad. iv. 1824, 197. 



Wilsonia minuta, Bp. CGL. 1838, 23. Allen, Pr. Ess. Inst. iv. 1864, 83. Allen, Am. Nat. iii. 

 1869, 577. 



Ketophaga minuta, Rich. Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. for 1836, 1837, 112. Hoy, Pr. Phila. 

 Acad. 1853, 309 (Wisconsin). 



Myiodioctes minutUS, Bd. BNA. 1858, 293. Bd. Rev. AB. 1865, 241. Turnb. B. E. Pa. 18C9, 

 53 ; Phila. ed. 42. B. B. & E. NAB. i. 1874, 316. Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1875, 440. 



Muscicapa or Myiodioctes " minuta ", Coues, Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1868, 275. 



Sylvania pumilia, Nutt. Man. i. 2d ed. 1840, 334. 



Small-beaded Flycatcher of Wilson and Audubon. 



Small-headed Sylvan Flycatcher, Nutt. 1. c. 183-2. 



HAB. "Eastern United States." The above synonymy is nearly all mere 

 compilation, the several authors, excepting Wilson, Nuttall, and Audubon, 

 not claiming to know the species. The existence of any such bird is doubt- 

 ful, and its reference to Myiodioctes by Baird and others is wholly conjectural. 

 Bonaparte first put it here, i. e. } in his genus Wilsonia, but in 1850 queerly 

 identified it with Empidonax flaviventris of Baird. The history of the bird 

 begins with a misunderstanding between Wilson and Audubon, and the whole 

 record from that day to this is a tissue of surmises. 



Wilson's Green Black-capped Fly catching 

 Warbler 



Myiodioctes pnsillus 



Muscicapa pusilla, Wils. AO. iii. 1811, 103, pi. 26, f. 4.Bp. Journ. Phila, Acad. iv. 1824, 179, 

 Wl.Thomps. Vermont, 1853, App. 22. Henry, Pr. Phila. Acad. vii. 1855, 308 (New 

 Mexico). Willis, Smiths. Rep. for 1858, 1859, 281 (Nova Scotia). 



Wilsonia pusilla, Bp. CGL. 1838, 23. AUen, Pr. Ess. Inst. iv. 1864, 64. Allen, Bull. MCZ. 

 iii. 1872, 175. Allen, Am. Nat. vi. 1872, 346, 348. 



Sylvania pusilla, Nutt. Man. i. 2d ed. 1840, 335. Gamb. Pr. Phila. Acad. iii. 1847, 156 (Cali- 

 fornia). Gamb. Jonrn. Phila. Acad. i. 1847, 38. 



Myiodioctes pusilla, Bp. C A. i. 1850, 315. 



Myioctonus pusillus, Cab. MH. i. 1850, 18. 



Myiodioctes pUSillUS, Scl. PZS. 1856, 291. Bd. BNA. 1858, 293. Bd. TL S. Mex. B. Surv. ii. 

 pt. ii. 1859, Birds, 10. Heerm. PRRR. x. 1859, 39 Xant. Pr. Phila. Acad. xL 1859, 191 

 (California). ScZ. PZS. 1859, 363 (Xalapa). 8. <& S. Ibis, i. 1859, 11 (Guatemala). Coop. 

 & Suck. NHWT. 1860, 182. Wheat. Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 1861, 364. Cab. J. f. O. 

 1860, 325 (Costa Rica). Barn. Smiths. Rep. for 1860, 1861, 436. Terr. Pr. Ess. Inst. 

 iii. 1862, 147. Coues <& Prent. Smiths. Rep. for 1861, 1862, 409. Blak. Ibis, v. 1863, 63 

 (Mackenzie River). Lord, Pr. Roy. Arty. Inst. iv. 1864, 115. Bd. Rev. AB. 1665, 

 240. Coues, Ibis, 2d ser. i. 1865, 163. Dress, ibid. 478 (Texas). Lawr. Ann. Lye. 

 N.T. viii. 1866, 285. Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1866, 71 (Fort Whipple). Mcllwr. Pr. 

 Ess. lust v. 1866, 86. Trippe, Am. Nat. ii. 1868, 170, 175. Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1868, 

 83. Coues, Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1868, 274. Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. 1868, 95 (Co^ta 

 Rica). Coues, Pr. Bost. Soc. xii. 1868, 111 (South Carolina). Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad. 

 1868,83 (Arizona). Butch. Pr. Phila. Acad. xx. 1868, 149 (Texas). Dall & Bann. Tr. 

 Chicago Acad. i. 1869, 278 (Alaska). v. Frantz. J. f. 0. 1869, 294 (Costa R ca). Turnb. 

 B. E. Pa. 1869, 26; Phila. ed. 19. Scl. PZS. 1869, 374 (Oaxaca). Coop. Am. Nat. iii. 

 1869, 480. Coop. Pr. Gal. Acad. 1870, 75. Coop. B. Cal. i. 1870, 101. Salv. PZS. Is70, 183 

 (Veragua). Stev. TJ. S. Geol. Surv. Terr, for 1870, 1871, 463. Mayn. Pr. Bost. Soc. xiv. 

 1872, 369. Aiken, Pr. Bost. Soc. xv. 1872, 197. Finsch, Abh. Nat. iii. 1872, 36. Coues, 

 Key, 1872, 109, f. 50. Salv. Ibis, 3d ser. iii. 1873, 334 (San Domingo). Ridgw. Am. Nat. 



