DENDRCECA BLACKBURNIiE, BLACKBUENIAN WARBLER. 59 

 List of specimens. 



19302 

 19203 

 19234 



Wind River 



Wind River Mts. 

 E.Buttes Platte.. 



May 29, 1800 

 Jiiue6,1800 

 May 12, 1800 



Lieutenant Warren's Expedition. — 8820, Laramie Peak ; probably about the eastern 

 limit of the species. 

 Later Expeditions. — 60701, Fort Bridger; 62345-6, Wyoiiiiug. 



In most localities through its rauge, this species is as common as its 

 Eastern representative, I), ooronata, with which it corresponds xirecisely 

 in habits. 



The only nest of this species that I have seen is in the Smithsonian, 

 from Vancouver's Island, where it was secured by Mr. Hepburn. It is 

 built in the crotch formed by three forks of an oblique stem, and is ob- 

 liquely conical in shape to correspond. The exterior is rather coarse 

 librous strips of bark and weeds, variously intertwined^; the main sub- 

 stance is of fine grasses and mosses, mixed with large feathers and 

 twine, and the interior is lined with an abundant deposit of horse-hair.' 



i^DENDEGECA BLACKBUENI^, (Gm.) Bd. v L- 

 BlaCkibiirnian Warbler. 



Motaoilla hlaclcitirniw, Gm., Syst. Nat. i, 17SS,.977. 



Sylvia Mackbiirnia; Lath., Irid. Oru. ii, 1790, 527. — ViElLL., Ois. Am. Sept. ii, 1807,36, 



pi. 90.— WiLS., Am. Oru. iii, 1811, 64, pi. 23, f. 3.— Bp., .Svu. 1828, 80.— Nutt., 



Man. i, 1832, 379.— AuD., Orn. Bioy. ii, 1834, 208; v, 1839, 73; pis. 135, 399. 

 Syhncola blaekburnia;, Jaed., ed. Wils. 1832. — Rich., List, 1837.— Bp., List, 1838,22; Consp. 



1850, 307.— AuD., Syn. 1839, 57.— AuD., B. Am. ii, 1841, 48, pi. 87.— Hoy, Smiths. 



Rep. 1864, 438 (Missouri). 

 Mniotilta blaclcburniai, Gkay, G. of B. 

 Elnmanplms hlaoldmrniai, Cab., Mus. Hein. i, 18C0, 19; J. f. 0. 1860, 328 (Costa Rica).— 



SCL., P. Z. S. 1855, 143 (Bogota); ItT/.i, loO (Veraguu). 

 Dendrceea blaeklnrmce, Bd., B. N. A. 1858. 274; Kev. 18ti5, 189.— ScL., P. Z. S. 1859, 363 



(Xalapa); 1860, 64 (Ecuador); Cat. 1862, -30.— Scl. & Halv., Ibis, i, 18o9, 11 



(Guatemala) ; P. Z. S. 1870, 780 (Merida).— Bkyakt, Pr. Lost. Soc. vii, 18.j9 



(Bahamas). — L.VWK., Aun. Lvc. vii, 62 (Panama) ; ix, IHGi, 04 (Costa Rica). — 



SUMICH., Mem. Bost. Soc. i, 1869, 547 (Orizaba, rare).— McliAVit.. Pr. Ess. lust. 



Ti, 1866, 85 (migratory at Hamilton, 0. W.). — Allek, Pr. Ess. Inst, iv, 1864, 62 



(chiefly migratory, but some breed iu Mas.sacbuseirs). — Allejm, Bull. M. C. Z. 



iii, 1872, 175 (Kansas and Utah).— COUES, Key, lb/2, 100; and of most late 



writers. 

 Sylma parv.s, WiLS., Am. Orn. v, 1812, 114, pi. 44, f. 3.— Bp., Syn. 1828. 82.— NuiT., i, 



392.— AuD., Orn. Biog. ii, 18.;4, 205, pi. 134. 

 Sylvicola parus, AuD., Syn. 1839, 55. — AuD., B. Am. ii, 1841, 40, pi. 83. — Emm., Cat. B. 



Mass. 183.5, 3.— Peab., Rep. B. Mass. Ia39, 310.— Linsl., Cat. B. Conn., Am. 



.Journ. Sci. xliv, 1843, 257.— Putn., Pr. Ess. Inst, i, 18oo, 228. 

 Mniotilta parus, Gi!ay, Genera of Birds. 

 Ehimamjylnis parus, Bp., Consp. i, 1850, 311. 

 S/ilria lateraVm, Stkpii., Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii, 1817, 059. 

 '•(.') Motacilla chrysocephala ct incana," G.M., i, 1788, 971 and 976. — Also of Lathaji and 



■\"iEiLLor. 

 "(f) Sylvia mdanorhoa," ViElLL., Nonv. Diet, xi, 1817, 180; Enc. Met. ii, 1823, 444. 



Hal). — Eastern United States and British provinces. Wcstto Kansas and Utah (Allen). 

 Breeds from Massachusetts northward, and apparently in the niountains of the ilu[d[eZ.£ S ~ 

 States. Winters in Mexico and Central America. Scarcely West Indian (i?)'i/a«<). J.9S- 



As is now well known, Wilson described the young of this species as,7<f3- 

 the "Hfemlock Warbler," 8. parus, in whicU he was followed by many ■ 

 writers. Audubon magnified tbe error by uniting with it the autuuiuali . / 

 Warbler of Wilson, which is the young of the Bay-breasted. Bona- '4 

 X)arte did still worse, iu putting the "Hemlock Warbler'' iu a diftereut^- -'' 

 geuus. 'tf"'^ c, 



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