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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



OPORORNIS, Baied. 

 Oporornis, Baied, Birds N. Am. 1858, 246. (Type Sylvia agilis, WiLS.) 



Oporornis agilis. • 



Sylvia agilis, WiLS. Am. Om. V, 1812-, 64, pi. xxxix, fig. 4. — Ann. Orn. 

 Biog. II, pi. 138 ; Bon. — Sylvicola ag. Jaed. ; Aud. B. A. II, pi. 99. 

 — Trichas ag. NuTT. — Oporornis ag. Baied, Birds N. Am. 1858, 246, 

 pi. Ixxix, fig. 2. — ? Trichas tephrocotis, Nctt. Man. 2ded. 1840,462 

 (Chester Co., Penn.). 



Hab. Eastern province of United States. 



A specimen in the collection of the Philadelphia Academy, killed 

 by Mr. Krider, has the darker ash of the jugulum of a decided sooty 

 tinge. 



(35,031.) 5.20; 8.90; 2.90. 



Oporornis formosus. 



?Sylvia sequinoctialis, Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 26, pi. 81, Penn. 



(not of Gmelik). 

 Sylvia formosa, Wils. Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 85, pi. xxv, fig. 3. — Nutt. ; 



Aud. Orn. Biog. I, pi. 38. — Sylvicola formosa, Jaed. ; Rich. ; Bok. ; 



Max. Cab. Jour. VI, 1858, 113. — Myiodioctes formosus, Ann. Syn. — 



Ib. B. a. II, pi. 74.— Lemeeye, Av. Cuba, 1850, 37.— Gundlach, Cab. 



Jour. 1861, 326 {Cnha.).— Oporornis formosus, Baied, Birds ^■. Am. 



1858, 247.— ScLATEE & Salvin, Ibis, I, 1859, 10 (Guatemala). 

 Other Localities Cited : Cuba, Cab. Jour. Ill, 472.— J/exico, Sclateb, 



Pr. 1862, 19. — Isthmus Panama, Laweence, Ann. N. Y. Lye. VII 62. 



Hab. Eastern province of United States, north to Washington and Chicago ; 

 Cuba, Guatemala, and Isthmus Panama. Not recorded from Jamaica and 

 Mexico. 



The Sylvia sequinoctialis of Yieillot (but not of Gmelin, which is 

 Geothlypis eequinoct.) probably belongs here. The name, however, 

 is geographically inapplicable, and cannot be retained. 



