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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



DENDROICA, Ghat. 



Sylvicola, Gray, Genera, 2d ed. 1841, 32 (not of Hcmphkey or Swainson), 

 Dendroica, Gray, Genera, Appendix, 1842, 8. (Type Sylvia coronata. 



Lath.). 

 "Ficedula, Cuv. 1799-1800" (not of Mcehrihg, 1752). 

 Rhimamphus, Hartlacb, Rev. Zool. 1845, 342 (not of Rafinesqde). 



The genus Dendroica is represented by a very large number of 

 species, which vary somewhat in external form, but passing so in- 

 sensibly from one into the other as to render it exceedingly difficult 

 to subdivide them. They may, perhaps, be most conveniently 

 grouped by their colors, as has been done in " Birds of North Ame- 

 rica," to which I would refer, as also for general remarks. Nearly 

 all the species belong to the tFnited States, going southward in 

 winter ; several are peculiar to Cuba, Jamaica, or Porto Rico, one to 

 the West Indies generally, and three to Central and South America. 



Dendroica Tirens. 



Motacilla sirens, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, ^%Z.— Sylvia virens, Lath. 

 — ViEiLLOT, Ois. Am. Sept. II, pi. xciii. — Wns. Am. Orn. II, 

 pi. xxvii, fig. 3.— NuTT. ; Bon. ; Am. Orn. Biog. IV, pi. 399.— 

 Gatke, Naumaunia, 1858, 423 (Heligoland, Europe, an original 

 description).— S^ZijjcoZa virens, Sw. ; Add. B. A. II, pi. 84.— Rein- 

 hardt, Vid. Med. for 1853, 1854, 72, 81 (Greenland).— fiAtman;,Aus 

 virens. Cab. Mus. Hein. Jour. Ill, 1855, 474 (Cuba ; winter).— 

 SoiATER, P. Z. S. 18f6, 291 (Cordova).-i)enrfroica virens, Baird, 

 Birds N. Am. 1858, 267.— Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 1 (Guate- 

 mala).— Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, 363 (Oaxaca?) ; 373 (Xalapa).— 

 Ib. Catal. 1861, 29, no. 181.— Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Lye. VII, 1861, 

 293 (Panama).— GuNDL. Cab. Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba).— MitottVJo 

 virens, Reinhardt, Ibis, III, 1861, 5 (Juliauehaab, Greenlan 



