BIRDS OK NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 707 



North America in general, in wooded districts, north to the limit of 

 tree growth, in Labrador, northern Keewatin (Repulse Bay), Mac- 

 kenzie, Yukon, and Alaska (to valley of Kowak River); breeding 

 southward to Quebec (Lennoxville; Anticosti Island), northern Mich- 

 igan (Mackinac Island), and high mountains of New Mexico (upper 

 Pecos River), Arizona (White Mountains; Mogollon Mountains), and 

 northern California (Mount Shasta), etc.; in winter southward en- 

 tirely across United States, and over whole of Mexico to highlands 

 of Guatemala (ridge above Totonicapam). Accidental in Greenland 

 (Nenortalik, 1 specimen, 1860). 



IMotacilla] calendula LiNNiEus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 337 (based on Calendula 

 pennsylvanica Bvisson, Orn., iii, 584). — Forster, Philos. Trans., Ixii, 1772, 407 

 (Hudson Bay).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 994. 



Molacilla . . . calendula Forster, Philos. Trans., Ixii, 1772, 407 (Severn E. ). 



l^Sylvial calendida Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 549. — Gray, Hand-List, i, 1869, 

 216, no. 3068. 



Sylvia calendula Wilson, Am. Orn., i, 1808, 83, pi. 5, fig. 3. 



Megulus calendula Lichtbnstein, Verz. Doubl., 1823, 35. — Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., ii, 1826, 91; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 19.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. 

 U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 415.— Addubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 546, pi. 195; 

 Synopsis, 1839, 83; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 168, pi. 133.— Gameel, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, 1846, 115 (California; Rocky Mts.).— Woodhouse, 

 in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zufii and Col. R., 1853, 67 (Indian Territory; 

 Texas; New Mexico). — Henry, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, 1855, 309 

 (New Mexico); xi, 1859, 106 (do.) .— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 

 202 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz); 1858, 300 (La Parada, Oaxaca); 1859, 362 (Jalapa), 

 371 (Talea, Oaxaca); 1864, 172 (City of Mexico); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 11 

 (California).— Baird, Rep. Paciiic R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 226; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 161; Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 9 

 (EspiaandBoca Grande, n. Mexico); Review Am. Birds, 1864, 66. — Sclater 

 and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 8 (ridge above Totonicapam, Guatemala). — Xantus, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 190 (FortTejon, California).— Willis, Ann. 

 Rep. Smithson. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 282 (Nova Scotia).— Kennebly, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 24 (Aztec Mts. and Bill Williams Fork, 

 Arizona, Jan., Feb.). — Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. vi, 1859, 43 

 (throughout California; Pima Village, Arizona). — Cooper and Shckley, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 174 (Washington, winter). — Reinhakdt, 

 Ibis, 1861, 5 (Nenortalik, Greenland, 1 spec.) . — Coues, Ibis, 1865, 163; Check 

 List, 1873, no. 21; 2d ed. 1882, no. 33; Birds N. W., 1874, 15; Birds Col. Val.,. 

 1878, 92; Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 553 (descr. nest).— 

 Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 476 (San Antonio, etc., Texas). — Wiez, Proc. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., X, 1866, 267 (Labrador).— Butcher, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xx, 1868, 

 149 (Laredo, Texas). — Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., i, 1869, 

 276, part (Nulato, Alaska; habits). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 33. — Allen, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 260 (e. Florida, winter). — Stevenson, 

 Prelim. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1871, 463 (Little Sandy and Green R., 

 ■Wyoming).— Mebri AM, Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. for 1872 (1873), 672 (Lower 

 - Geyser Basin and Snake R. , Wyoming, Aug., Sept.). — Ridgway, Bull. Essex 

 Inst, V, 1873, 179 (Colorado); vii, 1875, 12 (Carson City, Nevada, winter), 

 17 (Truckee Valley, Nevada, winter), 32 (WahsatchMts., Utah, breeciing); 

 Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 409 (Nevada); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 80; Orn. 

 Illinois, i, 1889, 76; Auk, vii, 1890, 292 (descr. yellow-crowned specimen). — 



