BIRDS OF KOKTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 609 



Eastern United States, breeding north to Massachusetts, southern 

 Ontario (Toronto), southern Michigan, southern Wisconsin (?), etc., 

 south to Florida, Bahamas (islands of Abaco, New Providence, and 

 Green Cay'), and probably to the Gulf States in general; occurring 

 irregularly north to northern Michigan (Mackinac Island); west to 

 edge of the Great Plains, in eastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas, etc. ; in 

 winter south nearly throughout West Indies (Bahamas, Cuba, Grand 

 Cayman, Cayman Brae, Jamaica, Haiti, Porto Rico, Mona, Culebra, 

 St. Thomas, Tortola, Virgin Gorda, and St. Croix, Greater Antilles; 

 St. Eustatius, St. Christopher, and Martinique, Lesser Antilles), island 

 of Cozumel, Yucatan (January), and Swan Island, Caribbean Sea (1 

 specimen, February 12); Bermudas (October). 



Sylvia dkcolor YiEiLLOT, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 37, pi. 98 (United States and 

 Greater Antilles); Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xi, 1817, 181; Enc. M6th , ii, 

 1823, 445.— Stephens, Shaw's Gen. ZooL, x, 1817, 716.— Bonaparte, Ann 

 Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 82.— Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 1831, 418.— Nuttall, Man. 

 Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, "294," i. e. 394.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 

 76, pi. 14.— Brewer, Journ. Boat. Soc. N. H., i, 1837, 436 (Massachusetts) .— 

 Lembeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 32, pi. 6, fig. 2. 



Sylvieola discolor Jahdine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1832, 375. — Richardson, Rep. 

 Brit. Assoc, for 1836 (1837), 172.— Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 

 23.— Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 62; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 68, pi. 97.— 

 GossE, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 159.— Jardine, Contr. Orn., 1848, 82 (Bermu- 

 das, aut. visit.) . — Hurdis, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, 7 (Bermudas, Oct.).— 

 Hoy, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, 1853, 311 (Wisconsin).— Pratten, Trans. 

 Ills. Agric. Soc, i, 1855, 602 (Illinois).— Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 

 1859, 110 (Bahamas, breeding); xi, 1867, 91 (Santo Domingo), 250 (Porto 

 Rico); Journ. fur Orn., 1866. 184 (do.).— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 vii, 1860, 307 (Cuba). 



[Sylvieola] discolor Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 308. 



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



[MniotUta] discolor Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 241, no. 3486. 



Ehimamphus discolor Gundlach,, Journ. fiir Orn., 1855, 474 (Cuba). 



Dendroica discolor Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858. 290; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 

 1859, 210; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 213, part (Jamaica; Porto Rico; St. 

 Thomas; St. Croix).— Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 326 (Cuba); 1872, 

 416 (do.); Repert. Fisico-Nat Cuba, i, 1865, 235; Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., 

 vii, 1878, 186 (Porto Rico).— March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xv, 1863, 

 293 (Jamaica) . — Baibd, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 

 276, pi. 14, fig. 9.— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1875, 439 (Massa- 

 chusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, breeding). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 564 (Cozumel I., Yucatan, winter) ; x, 1888, 576 (Swan 

 I., Caribbean Sea); Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 155.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 39 

 (West Indian references) ; vi, 1889, 31 (Little Cayman and Cayman Brae) ; vii, 

 1890, 375 (Tortola and Virgin Gorda) ; viii, 1891, 47 (St. Eustatius), 48 (St. 

 Croix; St. Christopher) ; ix, 1892, 48, 49 (Maraguna and Watlingsl., Bahamas) ; 

 Birds W. I., 1889, 53; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 118 (Great Bahama, Abaco, Bir- 



'Perhaps also Rum Cay and other islands of the group. These resident Bahama 

 birds are recognizably difierent from birds breeding in the United States, as explained 

 on p. 608 (footnote), and may require subspecific separation. 



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