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Prairie); west to edge the Great Plains; breeding southward to north 

 ern Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, and northern Michi 

 gan (Mackinac Island). In winter southward through eastern Mexicc 

 and Central America ^ to Colombia ( numerous localities and records) 

 No West Indian record. 



Sylvia castanea Wilson, Am. Orn., ii, 1810, 97, pi. 14, fig. 4 (e. Pennsylvania; coll 

 Peale Museum). — Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., x, 1817, 714. — Vieillot, 

 Enc. M^th., ii, 1823, 452. — Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 

 189; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 80.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832^ 

 382.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 358, pi. 69. 



Syhicola castanea Richardson, Rep. Brit. Assoc, for 1836 (1837), 172. — Bonapakte, 

 Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 22. — Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 53; Birds Am., 

 oct. ed., ii, 1841, 34, pi. 80.— Hoy, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, 1853, 311 

 (Wisconsin); Ann. Rep. Smithson. Inst, for 1864 (1865), 438 (Missouri). 



[Sylvicolal castanea Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 308. 



M[niotilta'] castanea Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 



[Mhiatilta'] castanea Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 241, no. 3483. 



JRlhimanphus'] castaneus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 19 (Mexico). 



Dendroica castanea Baied, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 276; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 197; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 189 (Turbo, Rio Truando, and 

 Panama, Colombia). — Sclatee and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 11 (Guatemala).— 

 Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xii, 1860, 193 (Rio Truando and Turbo, 

 Colombia). — Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xv, 1872, 192 (remarkable 

 abundance in e. Massachusetts and s. Wisconsin in spring of 1872); xvii, 

 1875, 439 (n. New England, breeding). — Baird, Brewer, and Eidgway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 251, pi. 13, figs. 4, 5.— Turner, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., viii, 1885, 237 (Moose Factory and Hamilton Inlet, Hudson Bay).— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 660. — Cooke, Bird 

 Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 250 (Nebraska, etc.; breeding at Portage la Prairie, 

 Manitoba; dates, etc. ).— Ridgway, Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 146.— Thompson, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 619 (Manitoba, breeding).— Looms, Auk, 

 X, 1893, 155 (remarks on coloration).— White, Auk, x, 1893, 228 (Mackinac 

 I., Michigan, rare sum. resid.). — Nehrlixg, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 

 215, pi. 12, fig. 4.— McIlwraith, Birds Ontario, 1894, 367 (Listowell, Ontario, 

 breeding).— Allen, Auk, xvii, 1900, 367 (Bonda, Santa Marfa, Colombia, 

 Oct. 27). 



Dlendroica} castanea Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 501. 



Dendrceca castanea Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1861, 322 (Panama E. E.).-;- 

 Sclatee, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 31.— Sclatee and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1864, 347 (Panama R. E.); 1879, 494 (Remedios, Antioquia, Colom- 

 bia).— Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 322 (Naranjo, Colombia).— Ma ynaed, Proc. Bost 

 Soc. N. H., xiv, 1871, 10 (breeding habits).— Brewer, Ibis, 1872, 334 (migra- 

 tions) .— CouBS, Check List, 1873, no. 82; 2d ed., 1882, no. 123; Birds N. W., 

 1874, 61; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 243.— Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 

 4, 1876, 15 (Tehuantepec City, Oct.).— Bebwstee, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 

 1878, 58 (descr. young).— Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 100.- 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 132.— Ne'heling, Bull. 



' Mexican and Central American records for this species are singularly few, only 

 the State of Oaxaca (Tehua,utepec City) and Guatemala being represented, so far as J 

 have been able to discover. Its line of migration would therefore appear to be chiefly 

 across the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea to Colombia. 



