SYNONYMY OF MNIOTILTA VAEIA 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 



1863, U6.— March, Pr. PUla. Acad. xv. 1863, 293 (.Tamaioa).-B(i. Kev. AB. 1864, 167.— 

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

 Lawr. Ann. Lyo. K. T. Tui. 1865, 174 (Chiriqui).— Dresi. Ibis, 2d ser. i. 1865, 470 (Texas, 

 breeding).— ilfoJiMr. Pr. Ess. Inst. T. 1S66, S5.—Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. T.viii. 1866, 9S3.— 

 Saiv. PZS. 1867, 135 (Veragna).— 2'riippe, Am. Nat. U. 1868, 171.- iinw. Ann. liyo. N. Y. 



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



1868, 108.— Alien, Am. Nat. lit 1869, 509.— Baymond, Geol. Sarv. Indiana, 1869, 216.— 

 Tumb. B. B. Pa. 1869, 23; Phila. ed. 16.— ». Frantz. J. f. 0. 1869, 292 (Costa Kioa).—S. e6 S. 

 PZS. 1870, 780 (Merida).— Cope, Am. Nat. iv. 1870, 395, 396, 309.— Parker, Am. Nat. v. 

 1871, WS.-Trippe, Pr. Ess. Inst. vi. 1871, m.—Wyatt, Ibis, 3d ser. i. 1871, 322 (Her- 

 radura).- Ailen, Am. Nat. vi. 1872, 365.— Jfayn. Pr. Bost. Soc. xiv. 1872, 361.— Soott, Pr. 



BosfeSoo. XV. 1872,921 (West Virginia, breeding) (?«»(2l J. f. 0. 1872, 411 (Cuba).- 



AlUn, Bull. MCZ. iii. 1872, 175.— Combs, Key, 1872, 92, t.Zi.—Snow, B. Kans. 1873, 4.— 

 RUg. Am. Nat. vii. 1873, 607.— THppe, Pr. Bost. Soc. xv. 1873, i3i.—Smrick, Bull. Ess. 

 Inst. V. 1873, — (NewBranswiok).- OoaesBNW. 1874, i5.—Merr. Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 

 7, Se.—'Paokard, ibid. fni.—AlUn. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1874, 52 (Dakota).— B. S. <& B. 

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

 Soc. xvii. 1875, 439.— iawr. BalLTT. S. Nat Mns. 1876, 15 (Tebuantepec).- ffenerj/, Life- 

 Hist i. 1876, 91.—.Mmot, B. N. Eng. 1877, 97. 



Mnlotilla varia, T. " EM. 1823, — ".— iess. Tr. Orn. 1831, 318.— F. Gal. Ois. i. 1834, 276, pi. 

 im.—Scl. PZS. 1858, 998 (Parada).— Brewster, Ann. Lyo. N. T. xi. 1875, 134. 



Minotilta raria, 5. <£ S. Ibis, L 1859, 10 (Goatemala). 



Miniotllta rara, (fregg, Proc. Elmira Acad. 1870. 



SylTicOla Taria, Rich. " List, 1837 ".—Bry. Pr. Bost Soc. xL 1867, 91 (St Domingo). 



Nectarlnia raria, Hahn, " Ausland. Vog. . . . ". 



Certhia picta, Barlr. Trav. Ela. 1st ed. 1791, 289 bis (see Ooues, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1875, 347). 



Certhla maculata, WUs. AO. iii. 18il, 22, pi. 19, f. 3.—Bp. Joum. Phila. Acad. iv. 1824, 97.— 

 Denny, PZS. 1847, 39. 



Oxyglossus maculatns, 8w. Zool. Joum. iii. 1827, 357 (type of the genus). 



Mniotilta borealls, NutU Man. i. 2d ed. 1840, 105.— Soy, Pr. Phila. Acad. vi. 1853, 312. 



MniotUta rarla var. longlrostrls, Bd. BNA. 1858, p. xxxi, n. 167. 



Ficedula domlnlceiisis varla, Figuier Tari£ de 8. Domlngne, BHas. Orn. iii. 1760, 529, n. 

 69, pL 97, £ 5. 



Flguier varie de St. Domingue, Bu/. "Hist. Nat Ois. v. 305". 



Black and White Creeper, Edm. "Glean, pi. 300". 



Wblte-poU Warbler, Penn. AZ. ii. 1785, n. 402, 293.— 

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



Small Black and White Bird, Sloam, "Jam. iU 309, pi. 

 965, f. 1 ". 



Mnlotmevarl^, F.1.0. 



Orlmperean varle, V. "Ois. Dor. ii. — , 111, pi. 74". 



Creeping Warbler, Northern Creeping Warbler, «i''rv>>''»s*' 



Black-and-white Warbler, Black-and-wbile creep- W*^,.^ 



Ing Warbler, Black-and-white Creeper, 



Authors^ 



Fig. 99 Black-and-white Creeper. 



Hab.— Eastern North America. West to Dakota {Sayden, Allen), but not, 

 as far as known, to the Rooky 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. 



