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a. Saxicola oenanthe cenanthe (Linn^us). Wheatear. [765.] 

 Motacilla oenanthe Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 186. (Sweden.) 



Range. — Northern part of Northern Hemisphere. Breeds from British 

 Isles, Scandinavian Peninsula, central Europe, and high mountains of southern 

 Europe east to northern and east central Alaska, south to mouth of the Yukon 

 and the Pribilof Islands; winters southward to India and eastern Africa. 



b. Saxicola oenanthe leucdrhoa (Gmelin). Greenland Wheatear. [765a.] 



Motacilla leucorhoa Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 966. (Senegal.) 



Range. — Northeastern Arctic America. Breeds in Arctic Zone from Elles- 

 mere Land and Boothia Peninsula east to Greenland and Iceland, and south 

 to northern Ungava; winters in West Africa, migrating through the British 

 Isles and France; casual in migration to Keewatin, Ontario, New Brunswick, 

 Quebec, New York, Bermuda, Louisiana, and Cuba. 



Genus SIALIA Swainson. 



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

 monotypy, Sialia azurea Swainson = Motacilla sialis Linnaeus. 



Si&lia sialis (Linnaeus). 



Range. — Temperate eastern North America, west to the eastern 

 base of the Rocky Mountains and Arizona and south to the highlands 

 of Guatemala. 



a. Sialia sialis sialis (Jannjevs). Bluebird. [766.] 



Motacilla sialis LinnjBus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 187. (Carolina, 

 Virginia, and Maryland.) 



Range. — Eastern North America. Breeds from lower Canadian to Lower 

 Austral zone from southern Manitoba, northern Ontario, southern Quebec, 

 and Newfoundland south to southern Texas, the Gulf coast, and southern 

 Florida; casually west to base of the Rocky Mountains in Montana, Wyoming, 

 and Colorado; winters most commonly south of the Ohio Valley and the 

 Middle States; resident in Bermuda; accidental in Cuba. 



b. Sialia sialis fulva Brewster. Azure Bluebird. [766a.] 



Sialia sialis fulva Brewster, Auk, II, Jan., 1885, 85. (Santa Rita 

 Mountains, Arizona.) 



Range. — Southern Arizona and Mexico. Breeds mainly in Transition 

 Zone from the mountains of southern Arizona south to Jalisco, Oaxaca, and 

 Vera Cruz ; winters south to northern Guatemala. 



