8EIURUS. 



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Specimens nave been received from various localities in the whole 

 eastern United <Slates, as far west as tlie mouth of the Platte, or 

 bej^iiining of tiie high plains, and as far north as English Iliv«;r, 

 H. B. T. (July 15, Kennicott). The extra-liuiital localities are as 



follow : — 



Seiurus noveboracensis. 



(,., .TV 



Motacilla noreboracensis, Gmelin, S. N. 1, 1788, 958. — Stflvia nov. Lath. ; 

 ViKiLLOT, Oia. Am. Sept. II, pi. Ixxxii. — Sf.iurus nov, NnxT. ; Bon. ; 

 AuD. B, A. Ill, pi. 199.— Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 261, pi. Ixxx, 

 fig. 1. — Max. Cab. Jour. 1858, 121. — Ilenicocichla nov. Cab. Schom. 

 Guiana, III, 6()6 ; Jour. 1860, 324 (Costa Rica).— Sclater, Catal. 

 1861, 25, no. 161 (Tobago). — Gondlach, Cab. Jour. 1861, 324 

 (Cuba). — MniotUta nov. Gray. 



ff Motacilla fuscescens, Gmklik, S. N. 984 (based on Ficedula jamaicensis, 

 Brisson, III, 512, Jamaica). 



Tardus aquaticus, Wils. Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, pi. xxii, fig. 5. — Ann. Oni. 

 Biog. 1839, 284, pi. 433. 



Sylvia anthoide.1, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. XI, 1817, 208. — Seiurus tenui- 

 ro»tris, Sw. 1827 ; Gamb. — Seiurus sulfurascens, D'Obbiony, Sagra's 

 Cuba, 1840, 57, pi. vi.— Seiurus gosnii, Bon. Consp. 1850, 306 (Ja- 

 maica). — fAnthus Vherminieri, Less. Rev. Z. 1839, 101 (Colombia). 



Other Localities Quoted; Xalapa, Sclatkr, P. Z. S. 1859, 363. — 

 Guatemala, Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 10. — Panama, Lawrence, 

 Ann. N. Y. Lyo. 1861, 322.— Carthagena, Cassin, Pr. A. N, So. 1860, 

 191.— Santa Cruz (winter), Newton, Ibis, 1859, 142.— Cufca, Cab. 

 Jour. Ill, 471.— ^amatca, GossK, Birds, 151.— Scl. P. Z. S. 1861, 70. 



Unb. Eastern province of North America, north to Arctic Ocean and Yukon, 

 (westward along northern border of U. S. to Cascade Mountains) ; whole 

 West Indies ; southeastern Mexico ; all Central America ; Panama and eastern 

 South America (Bogota; Carthagena ; Brazil). 



The examination of a large series of specimens, from widely re- 

 mote localities, reveals, differences of but little moment. Some 

 Bkitis from Jamaica, killed in August, agree exactly iu the strung 



