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coverts light buflfy olive, the middle and greater broadly but not sharply 

 tipped with cinnamon-buflF; remiges and rectrices grayish olive-green, 

 as in adults. 



Adult OTfrfe.— Length (skins), 118.1-127 (121.1); wing, 66.3-Y2.9 

 (69.3); tail, 47.7-51 (49.3); exposed culmen, 12.9-14.5(13.7); tarsus,, 

 17.8-18.3 (18).' 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 110.5-127 (117.3); wing, 64.8-67.1 

 (65.8); tail, 44.7-47.7 (46.6); exposed culmen, 12.7-13.7 (13.2); tarsus, 

 17.8-19.3 (18.3).=' 



Eastern United States, breeding northward to southern Connecticut 

 (Say brook; Gales Ferry; near New Haven), southeastern New York 

 (lower Hudson Valley), Pennsylvania (Beaver, Butler, Armstrong, 

 and Delaware counties), southern Wisconsin (vicinity of Racine), etc.; 

 occasional in Massachusetts (Cambridge; Easthampton); in winter 

 south to Bahamas (New Providence; Great Inagua; Cay Lobos), Cuba, 

 Jamaica, Cayman Brae (near Cuba), and through eastern Mexico and 

 Central America to Veragua (Santa Fe). 



[Motacilla] vermivora Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 951 (based on The Worm-eater, 

 Vermivora Edwards, Gleanings Nat. Hist., ii, 200, pi. 305). 



[Sylvm] vermivora Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 544. 



Sylvia vermivora Wilson, Am. Orn., iii, 1811, 74, pi. 24, iig. 4. — Vieillot, Nouv. 

 Diet. d'Hist. Nat., 2d ed., xi, 1817, 278; Enc. M6th., ii, 1823, 480.— Ndttall, 

 Man. Orn. TJ. S. and Can., i, 1832, 409.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 177; 

 V, 1839, 460. 



Dacnis vermivora Audubon, Birds Am., fol. ed., pi. 34. 



Sylmcola vermivora Eichakdson, Eep. Brit. Soc. Adv. Sci. for 1836 (1837), 171. 



Helinaia vermivora Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 66; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 86, 

 pi. 105. — ^Lembeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 35, pi. 6, fig. 4. — Bbeweb, 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307 (Cuba) . 



M\niotilta'\ vermivora Geay, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 



[Mniotiltal vermivora Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 239, no. 3463. 



Hylophilus vermivorus Temminck, PI. Col., i, 1831 (?) (Tableau M6tliodique, 

 p. 36). 



[Helmitherosl wrmitiora Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, Apr. 20, 1850, 314. 



Slelmitheros'] vermivorus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 20,' footnote; Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1860, 328 (Costa Kica). 



Helmitheros vermivorus Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1855, 476 (Cuba); 1861, 326, 

 409 (Cuba).— ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 363 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz).— 

 RiDQWAY, Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 124. 



Helmitheros vermivorus Baied, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 252; Cat. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1859, no. 178; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 179.— Sclatee and Salvin, 

 Ibis, 1959, 11 (Guatemala).— ScLATER, Cat. Am. Birds, 1865, 28 (Guatemala; 

 Jamaica). — Gundlach, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865, 232; Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1872, 412 (Cuba); Orn. Cuba, 1876, 63.— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 

 ix, 1868, 94 (San Jos^, Costa Rica) ; 1869, 200 (Merida, Yucatan).— Sdmi- 

 CHRAST, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 546 (mountains near Orizaba, Vera 

 Cruz, in winter) . — Greoo, Proc. Elmira Acad., 1870, — (Chemung Co., New 

 York).— Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 269 (St. Augustine, Florida, 

 Apr.).; Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., i, 1886, 255 (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1 

 spec, Sept. 19, 1881).— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 60; Birds N. W., 1874, 



» Eight specimens. '' Five specimens. 



