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Range. — Breeds in the Canadian and Transition zones of the Pacific coast 

 from the shores of Cook Inlet south to the San Bernardino Mountains of 

 southern California. Winters from Chihuahua to Guatemala and in southern 

 Lower California. 



Vermivora celata sordida (Tow'nsend). Dusky Warbler. [6466.] 



Helminthophila celata sordida C. H. Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 XIII, No. 799, Sept. 9, 1890, 139. (San Clemente Island, [California].) 



Range. — Breeds in the Upper Austral Zone on San Clemente, Santa 

 Catalina, Santa Cruz, and Santa Rosa islands, California, and Todos Santos 

 Islands, Lower California; also on the mainland, in the vicinity of San Diego and 

 probably south to El Rosario, lat. 30°. Winters widely on the adjacent main- 

 land, casually to the San Francisco Bay region (Berkeley, Palo Alto, and else- 

 where) . 



Vennivora ruficapilla ruficapflla (Wilson) . Nashville Warbler. [645.] 



Sylvia ruficapilla Wilson, Amer. Orn., Ill, 1811, 120 (pi. 27, fig. 3). 

 (near Nashville, Tennessee.) 



Range. — Breeds mainly in the Canadian Zone from central Saskatchewan, 

 central Ontario, southern Quebec, and Cape Breton Island south to Nebraska, 

 northern Illinois, northern Pennsylvania, northern New Jersey, and Connecti- 

 cut. Winters from Vera Cruz and Chiapas to Guatemala and casually in 

 Florida and southern Texas; migrates across the Gulf of Mexico and is very 

 rare on the Atlantic slope south of Chesapeake Bay. Accidental in Greenland. 



Vennivora ruficapilla ridgwayi van Rossem. Calaveras Warbler. [645a.] 



Ver7nivora ruficapilla ridgwayi van Rossem, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XLII, 

 No. 21, June 25, 1929, 179. New name for V. r. gidturalis (Ridgway) 

 nee Cabanis. (Ft. Tejon, Cal., East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada 

 = East Humboldt Mountains.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Transition Zone from southern British Columbia 

 south to the central Sierra Nevada of California, eastern Oregon, and Idaho. 

 Winters in Mexico south to Puebla, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Jalisco, and Colima; 

 in migration to Lower California and east to Texas. 



Vennivora virginiae (Baird) . Virginia's Warbler. [644.] 



Helminthophaga virginiae Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Birds 

 N. Amer., Atlas, 1860, vii (note) (pi. 79, fig. 1). (Fort Burgwyn, N[ew] 

 M[exico].)i 



1 While the text of the Birds of North America is identical with that of Vol. 

 IX of the Pacific Railroad Reports, the preface differs, and the several editions 

 of the Atlas differ materially from one another. In the Appleton and Lippin- 

 cott eds. (1860) this species appears on p. vii, while in the Salem ed. (1870) it is 

 on p. vi. 



