BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 485 



Eastern United States and British Provinces, breeding from the 

 interior districts of Virginia and Maryland^ northward to Maine, Anti- 

 costi Island, New Brunswick, and northern Ontario(?); casual in south- 

 ern Greenland; in winter throughout West Indies.^ 



S[/lna americana (not Parus americanus Linnaeus) Bonaparte, Ann. Lj'c. N. Y., 

 ii, 1826, 83, part. — Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1832, 78, part. — Peabody, Rep. 

 Orn. Mass., 1839, 11.— Thompson, Nat. Hist. "Vermont, App., 1853, p. 24. 



Sylmcola <imeri.cana Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 59, part; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 

 1841, 57, part— Putnam, Proc. Essex Inst., i, 1856, 207 (Essex Co.. Massa- 

 chusetts). — Willis, Ann. Rep. Smithson. Inst, for 1858 (1859), '2hz (Nova 

 Scotia). 



S[ylmcola] americana Maximilian, Journ. fur Orn., 1858, 116, part (Pennsylvania) . 



Parula americana Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 20, part. — Baird, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 238, part; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 

 168, part; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 169, part. — Verrill, Prop. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., ix, 1863, 233 (Oxford Co., Maine).— Allen, Proc. Essex Inst, iv, 

 1864, 59 (Springfield, Massachusetts). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 

 1868, 283 (vie. New Yorli; City).— Brewer, Am. Nat., i, 1867, 117 (nesting 

 habits); xvii, 1875, 439 (New England).— Trippe, Am. Nat,, ii, 1868, 177 

 (habits, etc.). — Coues, Proc. Essex. Inst., v, 1868, 269 (Essex Co., Massa- 

 chusetts); Check List, 1873, no. 58, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 93, part;, Birds 

 N. W., 1874, 46, part; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 208, part.— Turnbull, Birds E. 

 Penn. and N. J., 1869, 23; Phila. ed., 16.— Maynard, Proc. Bost Soc. N. H., 

 xiv, 1872, 361 (Upton, Maine, etc.).— Herrick, Bull. Essex Inst., v, 1873, 30 

 (New Brunswicli). — Packard, Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 271 (eatscankerworm). — 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridqway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 208, part, pi. 

 10, fig. 7.— Newton (A.), Man. Nat. Hist. Greenland, 1875, 98 (Southern 

 Inspectorate, I spec, 1857). — Brewster, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xxii, 1884, 

 370 (Anticosti I., June, July); Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 22 (descr. 

 young). — MiNOT, Birds New England, 1877, 99. — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1881 , no. 88, part 



[ParuUi] americana Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 93, part.— Sclater and Sal- 

 viN, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 8, part 



Plarula] americana Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 290, part. 



Mlniotittal americana Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196, part. 



Mnioiilta americana Reinhardt, Ibis, 1861, 6 (s. Greenland, 1 spec, 1857). 



[MniotiUa] americana Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 238, no. 3448, part. 

 (?) C[ompsothlypis'] americana Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 20, part (North 

 America) .—Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 491, part. 



Cwnpsolhlypis americana Stejneger, Auk, i, 1884, 170, part.— Bicknell, Auk, i, 

 1884, 212 (song).— American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 

 648, part— Todd, Auk, viii, 1891, 398 (Beaver, Butler, and Armstrong coun- 

 ties, Pennsylvania, breeding).— Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 

 193, part, pi. 11, fig. 1. 



'Specimens from the District of Columbia and adjacent parts of Maryland and Vir- 

 ginia are mainly referable to this form, though averaging slightly less in length of 

 wing and tail but more in length of bill; many are intermediate in coloration between 

 the present form and C. «. americana, while occasional specimens can not be distin- 

 guished from the latter. 



'Some West Indian (winter) specimens are undoubtedly of this form; but the 

 differences between C. a. umese and C. a. americana in winter plumage are so much 

 obscured that it is diflScult to distinguish them at that season. 



