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V. vicinior is a rare summer resident of Sau Diej,'o and San Bernardino 

 counties, California, but is not known to occur further northward on the 

 Pacific coast. It is common in portions of Arizona ami is also found in New- 

 Mexico and western Texas. I have only two specimens from western Mexico, 

 both taken by Mr. Frazar at Guaymas in January, 18S7. 



Mniotilta varia (Linn.). 



Black and White Warbler. 



Mr. Frazar's collection contains a female Black and White Warbler, taken 

 at Triunfo on December 20, 1887. This is the first known instance of the 

 occurrence of the species in Lower California, and for the Pacific Coast dis- 

 trict north of the Peninsula there are, I believe, but three records,^ all of which 

 relate to California. These four Inrds were, no doubt, chance wanderers 

 from the regular path of migration which, in the United States, lies well to 

 the eastward of the Rocky Mountains. The Black and White Creeper is 

 common in Central America during winter, and it also passes into South 

 America as far as Bogota and Venezuela. 



Helminthophila celata (Say). 

 Orange-crowned Warbler. 



(?) Helminthophaga celata B.\ird, Rev. Amer. Birds, pt. I. 1864, 1865, 176, 177 (San 



Jose' ; Cape St. Lucas). 

 Helminthophila celata Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 535 (Cape Region). 



RiDGWAY, Ibid. (crit.). Bryant, Proc. Cahf. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 



308 (Cape Region). 



According to Mr. Ridgway, an Orange-crowned Warbler (No. 86,272 U. S. 

 Nat. Mus.) taken by Mr. Belding near La Paz in January, 1882, " appears 

 to be referable to this form." 



Mr. Frazar also obtained one (9 No. 15,121, San Jose del Cabo, October 17, 

 1887) which is nearly or quite typical celata, while several others in his series are 

 variously intermediate between celata and lutescens. The occurrence of true 

 celata in the Cape Region is in no way surprising, for it breeds in the interior 

 of Oregon and British Columbia and thence northward to Alaska. No doubt 

 some of the birds which visit these regions in summer regularly pass through 



1 Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., I. 1888, 48, "male in good plumage" 

 found on South Farallone Island on May 28, 1887; Grinnell, Pub., IL Pasadena 

 Acad. Sci., 1898, 44, immature female taken near Pasadena, Los Angeles county, 

 on October 2, 1895; Emerson, Condor, III. 1901, 145, "male in fall plumage" 

 obtained at Point Lobos, Monterey county on September 8, 1901. 



