13S MNIOTILTID^. 



Hah. NoETH America, Eastern Province ^^^^ Canada, Texas ".—Mexico {SalU% 

 Lagunas, Alvarado, and Cuernavaca {Beppe, Mus. Berol), State of Vera Cruz 

 (Sumichrast ^^), Jalapa {de Oca% Talea and Playa Vicente (Boucard^), Mira- 

 dor (Sartorius'^^), Santa Efigenia, Tehuantepec (Sumichrast ^°) ; Guatemala, 

 Duenas*, San Geronimo, Tactic, Coban (0. S. & F. B. G,) ; Costa Rica, Grecia, 

 Barranca, and Eancho Redondo (CannioP), Candelaria Mountains (v. Frantzius^^); 

 Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (ArcS^^), Lion Hill (M'Leannan^ ^).—Cvba'^^ ; 

 Jamaica ^^. 



In Guatemala Bendrceca virens is one of the commonest species of Mniotiltidse during 

 the winter months, but is more abundant in Vera Paz and on the eastern side of the 

 country than about Duenas, where its place is to some extent, though not entirely, taken 

 by B. townsendi. It frequents, like the rest of its family, the second-growth woods, and 

 may always be found during the period of its stay in the outskirts of plantations, its 

 only note during this season being a sharp call. In Mexico it would appear to be 

 equally abundant in winter, as all cellectors seem to have met with it, and Prof. Sumi- 

 chrast speaks of it as found everywhere in the State of Vera Cruz. On the Pacific side 

 of the country it only appears in the neighbourhood of Tehuantepec. In Costa Rica 

 it is also common in winter, but in the State of Panama perhaps less so, though several 

 specimens have been sent us from the line of railway. In Cuba it is rare, Dr. 

 Gundlach having seen it but few times ^^. In Jamaica it was unknown until quite 

 recently, when Mr. E. Newton discovered it in the island and sent home several 

 specimens ^^. 



In North America B. virens is essentially a bird of the Eastern Province, extending 

 westwards to the edge of the plains and northwards to the temperate portions of the 

 British possessions. Beyond these limits it has been known to stray to Greenland, and 

 even to Heligoland ^^ ; it breeds in the northern portion of its range and in the New- 

 England States. The nest is described by Brewer ^^ as a small, snug, compact structure 

 built on a base of fine strips of bark, bits of leaves, and stems of plants ; the lining 

 consists of fine down and silky stems of plants. The eggs have a white or purplish- 

 white ground, and are blotched and dotted with markings of reddish and purplish 

 brown diffused over the whole surface, but especially at the larger end. 



15. Dendroeca occidentalis. 



Sylvia occidentalis, Towns. Journ. Ac. Phil. vii. p. 190 '. 



Dendroeca occidentalis, Baird, Rev. Am. E. i. p. 183^; Scl. Ibis, 1865, p. 89^; Salv. Ibis, 1866, 



p. 191*; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 546' j Baird, Brew. & Ridg. N -Am b' 



i. p. 266 ° ; Coues, B. Col. Vail. i. p. 258 \ 

 Dendroeca chrysoparia, Scl. P.Z.S. 1862, p. 19" (nee Scl. & Salv.). 

 Dendroeca niveiventris, Salv. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 187, t. 24. f. 2 '. 



