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Specimens nave been received from various localities in the whole 

 eastern United States, as far west as the mouth of the Platte, or 

 beginning of the high plains, and as far north as English River, 

 H. B. T. (July 15, Kennicott). The extra-limital localities are as 

 follow : — 



Seiurus noveboracensis. 



Motacilla noveboracensis, Gmelin, S. N. 1, 1788, 958. — Sylvia nov. Lath. ; 

 ViEiLLOT, Ois. Am. Sept. II, pi. Ixxxii. — Seiurus nov. Nhtt. ; Boh. ; 

 AuD. B. A. Ill, pi. 199.— Baibd, Birds N. Am. 1858, 261, pi. Ixxx, 

 fig. 1. — Max. Cab. Jour. 1858, 121. — Hemcocichla nov. Cab. Sohom. 

 Guiana, III, 666 ; Jour. 1860, 324 (Costa Rica).— Sclatee, Catal. 

 1861, 25, no. 161 (Tobago).— Ghndlaoh, Cab. Jour. 1861, 326 

 (Cuba). — ilniotilta nov. Gray. 



? ? Motacilla fuscescens, Gmelin, S. N. 984 (based on Ficedula jamaicensis, 

 Brisson, III, 512, Jamaica). 



Turdus aquaticus, WiLS. Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, pi. xxii, fig. 5. — AuD. Oru. 

 Biog. 1839, 284, pi. 433. 



Sylvia anthoides, Vieillot, Nout. Diet. XI, 1817, 208. — Seiurus tenui- 

 rostris, Sw. 1827 ; Game. — Seiurus sulfurascens, D'Orbignt, Sagra's 

 Cuba, 1840, 57, pi. vi. — Seiurus gossii, Bon. Consp. 1850, 306 (Ja- 

 maica). — fAnthus I'herminieri, Less. Rev. Z. 1839, 101 (Colombia). 



Other Localities Qcoted : Xalapa, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, 363. — 

 Guatemala, Sclatek & Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 10. — Panama, Lawrence, 

 Ann. N. Y. Lye. 1861, 322.— Carlhagena, Cassin, Pr. A, N. Sc. 1860, 

 191. — Santa Cruz (winter), Newton, Ibis, 1859, 142. — Cuba, Cab. 

 Jour. Ill, 471. — Jamaica, GossE, Birds, 151.— ScL. P. Z. S. 1861, 70. 



Hah. Eastern province of North America, north to Arctic Ocean and Yukon, 

 (westward along northern border of U. S. to Cascade Mountains) ; whole 

 West Indies ; southeastern Mexico ; all Central America ; Panama and eastern 

 South America (Bogota; Carthagena ; Brazil). 



The examination of a large series of specimens, from widely re- 

 mote localities, reveals differences of but little moment. Some 

 skins from Jamaica, killed in August, agree exactly in the strong 



