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KEVIEW OP AMEEICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



Wing and tail 



with yellow on throat and breast. 



feathers edged with ashy virgimm. 



Cinereous above ; whitish beneath. Upper tail coverts 

 chestnut-brown, as in the vertex. A dull patch of 



white on outer tail feather lucim. 



No concealed patch in the crown. 



Olive above ; the head and neck ashy. Beneath, with 

 lining of wing, white. A dull patch of white on 

 outer tail feather peregrina. 



From an examination of the recorded localities of Helminthophaga 

 it will be seen that, of the eight known species, one (celata) belongs 

 to the western and middle provinces — straggling into the eastern, 

 especially along its borders ; two (virginiae and luciae) are confined 

 to the southern region of the middle province ; while the other five 

 belong exclusively to the eastern province, most of them rather 

 southern in their range. Of these five, pinus and ruficapilla have 

 no West Indian localities given ; the others, chrysoptera, hachmani, 

 and peregrina are very rare there, and found only in Cuba. Their 

 distribution in Mexico and Central America is varied ; but they 

 hardly belong at all to western Mexico. The most notable feature 

 in the distribution of both Helminthophaga and Helmitherus, is 

 their not occurring in the West Indies at all except in Cuba, which 

 may be merely a stepping stone in the migration between Florida 

 and Central America, by way of Yucatan. 



Helmintbopliaga pinus. 



Certhia pinus, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1, 1 766, 187. — Sylvia pinus, Lath., Vieill. 



(not of .Wilson). — Helminthophaga pinus, Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 



254. — ScLATEH & Salvin, Ibis, I, 1859, 11 (Guatemala). — Sclater, 



Catal. 1861, 28, no. 176. 

 Sylvia solitaria, Wilson, Am. Orn. II, pi. xv. — Ann. Om. Biog. I, pi. 



XX. — Sylvicola sol. Rich. — Vermivora sol. Sw. — Helinaia sol. Add. 



B. A. II, pi. cxi. — Helmitherus sol. Bon. — Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, 



291 (Cordova). — Helminthophaga sol. Cab. 



Hab. Eastern province of U. S. (rather southern) ; Eastern Mexico ; Guate- 

 mala. Recorded localities : Cordova, Mex. ; Coban, Guat. Not noted from 

 West Indies. 



