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Dendroica discolor (Vieillot). Prairie Warbler. [673.] 



Sylvia discolor Vieillot. Ois. Amer. Sept., II, 1807 (1809?), 37, pi. 98. 

 (Eastern United States or Greater Antilles.) 



Range. — Eastern United States and West Indies. Breeds chiefly 

 in Carolinian and Austroriparian zones from southeastern Nebraska, 

 eastern Kansas, southern Ohio, southwestern Pennsylvania, southern 

 New Jersey, and (along the coast) from Massachusetts south to south- 

 western Missouri, northern Mississippi, northwestern Georgia, Florida, 

 and the Bahamas, and north locally to central Michigan, southern 

 Ontario, and New Hampshire; breeds rarely and locally in the Gulf 

 States; winters from central Florida through the Bahamas and the 

 West Indies. 



Genus SEIURUS Swainson. 



Seiurus Swainson, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, May, 1827, 369. Type, by 

 subs, desig., Motacilla aurocapilla Linnaeus (Swainson, 1827). 



Seiurus aurocapillus (Linn^us). Oven-bird. [674.] 



MotadUa aurocapilla Linn^tis, Syst. Nat.,' ed. 12, I, 1766, 334. (Near 

 Philadelphia, Pa.) 



Range. — North America. Breeds in Canadian, Transition, and 

 Upper Austral zones from southwestern Mackenzie (casually the lower 

 Yukon Valley), northern Ontario, southern Ungava, and Newfound- 

 land south to central Alberta, Colorado, Kansas, southern Missouri, 

 Ohio Valley, Virginia, in mountains to Georgia and South Carolina, 

 and east to the Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to Virginia; winters 

 from central Florida (casually South Carolina) and islands on the 

 Louisiana coast through the Bahamas and West Indies to St. Thomas, 

 and from Nuevo Leon to Colombia; casual at Mazatlan, Sinaloa. 



Seiurus noveboracfinsis (Gmelin). 



Range. — North America, breeding mainly north of the United 

 States; south in winter to northern South America. 



u. Seiurus noveboracensis noveboracensis (Gmelin). Water- Thrush. [675.] 

 Motacilla noveboracensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 958. (Louisiana 

 and New York.) 



