BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 469 



Sylvia rwfkapilla (not of Latham, 1790) Wilson, Am. Orn., iii, 1811, 120, pL 27, 

 flg. 3. — Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 197. — Audubon, 

 Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 450, pL 89. 

 M[niotiUa] ruficapilla Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 

 [MnwtUta] ruficapilla Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 239, no. 3456. 

 Helminthophaga ruficapilla Baird, Rep. Pacific E. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 256; Cat. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 183, part; Review xVm. Birds, 1865, 175, part.— 

 (?)Sclater, Proc. Zool. See. Lond., 1858, 298 (La Parada, Oaxaca); 1859, 

 373 (Oaxaca, Feb.); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 29.— Blakiston, Ibis, 1863,62 

 (Great Slave Lake). — Allen, Proc. Essex Inst., iv, 1864, 59 (Massachusetts, 

 breeding); Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 269 (e. Florida, Mar.); iii, 1872, 

 175, part (Kansas). — (?)Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 477 (San Antonio, Texas). — 

 McIlwkaith, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 85 (Hamilton, Ontario). — Sumi- 

 CHRAST, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 546 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz, winter). — 

 Codes, Check List, 1873, no. 67, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 106, part; Birds 

 N. W., 1874, 50, part; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 224, part.— Herrick, Bull, 

 Essex Inst., v, 1873, 30 (Grand Menan). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 196, part, pi. 11, fig. 7.— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., xvii, 1875, 439 (New England, summer resid. ). — Newton, Man. N. 

 H. Greenland, 1875, 99 (Gothaab, 1835, and Fiskena;sset, Aug. 31, 1840).— 

 (?)Lawrencb, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 15 (Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca, 

 Dec, Jan.). — Ridgway, Ibis, 1876, 170, part; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 

 85, part.— Sennbtt, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 12 

 (near Hidalgo, Texas); v, 1879, 386 (Lometa, Texas, Apr. 11 to 26).— 

 Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 123 (Fort Brown, Texas, Apr.).— 

 Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 187 8, 57 (descr. young). — Salvin and 

 GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 115, part.— (?) Salvin, Cat. Strick- 

 land Coll., 1882, 89 (Guatemala). 



[Hdminthophaga'] ruficapilla Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 95.— Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 8. 



H[elmwthophaga'\ ruficapilla Ridgway, Ibis, 1876, 168 (diagnosis). 



[Helminthophaga rwfkapilla'] var. ruficapilla Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 191, in text. 



HdminthophUa ruficapilla Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, Jan., 1882, 54; Orn. 

 Illinois, i, 1889, 128.— Brewster, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xxii, 1883, 370 (Gaspg 

 Bay, Gulf St. Lawrence, July 15).— Bicknell, Auk, i, 1884, 211 (song).— 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 242, 640, part.— Ralph, Trans. Oneida 

 Hist. Soc, iii, 1886, 137 (Oneida Co., New York, breeding).— American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 645.— Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 

 1888, 241 (Mississippi Valley localities and dates; breeding from n. Illinois 

 and Nebraska northward).— Chapman, Auk, vi, 1889, 198, 304 (Englewood, 

 New Jersey, breeding).— Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 616 

 (Manitoba, breeding).— White, Auk, x, 1893, 227 (Mackinac I., Michigan, 

 rare summer resid. ).—CoNGDON, Auk, xii, 1895, 190 (Dingmans Ferry, Pike 

 Co., Pennsylvania, breeding).— Brunbr, Proc. Nebr. Orn. Un., 2d an. meet., 

 1901, 57 (Nebraska City, Nebraska, breeding). 



H[elminthophila rufi.capilla'] Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 294.— Ridg- 

 way, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 489. 



JSelmintophila ruficapilla Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 189. 



Sylvia rubricapilla Wilson, Am. Orn., vi, 1812, 15 (index).— Bonaparte, Joum. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 197; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 7.— Audubon, 

 Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 450, pi. 89.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 

 1832, 412. 



Sylvia ( Venmvora) rubricapilla Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 

 1831, 220. 



