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southeastern and southwestern Pennsylvania (Washington, Allegheny, 

 and Perry counties), southern Ontario, southern Michigan (Washtenaw 

 County), northern Illinois, southern Iowa (Decatur and Mahaska 

 counties) and eastern Nebraska, occasionally or accidentally to Long 

 Island, Connecticut, Rhode Island (Providence), Massachusetts (Cape 

 Cod, Falmouth, Magnolia, etc.), Maine (Portland), northern Michigan 

 (Mackinac Island), and Minnesota (Minneapolis) ; breeding southward 

 to Florida, Louisiana,. and southern Texas (Brownsville, etc.); winter- 

 ing in Florida and other Gulf States and southward to Bahamas, Cuba, 

 and eastern Mexico to Yucatan and Guatemala. 



{Motadlla] cserulea Linnj^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 337 (based on Motacilla 

 parva cserulea Edwards, Gleanings Nat. Hist., ii, 194, pi. 302). 



\_Mota<Alla] caerulea Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1788, 992. 



\_Sylv\a\ cierulea Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 540. 



Musdcapa creritfea Wilson, Am. Orn., ii, 1810, 164, pi. 18, fig. 5. — Audubon, Orn. 

 Biog., i, 1881, 431, pi. 84. 



Mluscicapa] ccerulea Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 172 (refers 

 it to genus Syliria) . 



Cidicivora ccerulea Jaedine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., i, 1832, 304. — Audubon, 

 Birds Am., oct. ed., i, 1840, 244, pi. 75. — Woodhouse, in Eep. Sitgreaves' 

 Expl. Zuni and Col. R, 1853, 67 (Indian Territory; Texas). 



Calidvora cxrulea D'Okbignv, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1838, 76. — 

 Bbewee, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 306 (Cuba). 



C\ulicivora'] cserulea Gkay, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 176. 



[Qidicivora'] caerulea Bonapakte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 316. — Heine and Eeich- 

 ENOW, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1882, 24. 



Culicivora caerulea Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 407 (Cuba). 



C\ididwra'\ coerulea Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 34 (North America; Jalapa"). 



OuKciTOfd coerufea Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1855, 471 (Cuba). 



Poftopttfa carufea ScLATEE, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1855, 11 (monogr.); Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 12.— Hayden, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc, xii, 1863, 164 (Bald I., Ne- 

 braska; Fort Riley, Kansas) . — Bated, Review Am. Birds, 1864, 74, part.-^(?) 

 Beyant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1866, 69 (Fortune I. and Inagua, Bahamas). — 

 Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 261 (e. Florida in winter) ; iii, 1872, 124 

 (Topeka, Kansas); Am. Nat., vi, 1872, 269 (Topeka); Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., 

 i, 1886, 261 (Massachusetts records). — Teippe, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xv, 



1872, 236 (Decatur and Mahaska counties, s. Iowa, breeding). — Coues, Check 

 List, 1873, no. 23, part; BirdsCol. Val., 1878, 101, part.— Snow, Birds Kansas, 



1873, 6 (e. Kansas). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 'Birds, i, 



1874, 78,- part, pi. 6, fig. 5.— Brewster, Ann. Lye. N. Y., xi, 1875, 132 

 (Ritchie Co., West Virginia; habits; song); Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 

 19 (descr. young).— Deane, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 45 (Cape Cod, 

 Massachusetts, 1 spec, Nov. 18, 1877); v, 1880, 47 (Magnolia, Massachusetts, 

 1 spec, Aug. 27, 1879).— Puedie, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, 1877, 20 (Wau- 

 regan, Connecticut, 2 specs.; Providence, Rhode Island, 1 spec. May 23; 

 near Providence, 1 spec, June 24). — Brewer, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 

 1878, 146 (Falmouth, Massachusetts, 1 spec, Dec. !); Proc Bost. Soc. N.-H., 

 xix, 1878, 301 (New England records).— Sennett, Bull. TJ. S. Geol. and 

 Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 6 (Brownsville, Texas, breeding).— Meeeill 

 (J. 6.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 120 (Fort Brown, Texas, breeding).— 



« Perhaps P. c. mexicana. 



