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XOETII AilEKICAN BIRDS. 



5. virginiae. Above aiih to the rump, beneath white. A patch on the 

 jugulum, with the upper and lower tail-coverts, yellow. Hah. Rocky 

 Mountains of United States, west to East Humboldt Mountains. 



6. lucise. Above ash, beneath continuous white. Upper tail-coverts 

 chestnut. Hab. Colorado region of Middle Province. 



7. celata. Above continuous olive-green, below continuous pale yel- 

 low. (Orange on crown in ^ only ?) 



Above ashy-olive, beneath yellowish olivaceous-white ; inner 

 webs of tail-feathers broadly edged with white. (Middle regions 

 of North America; Mexico.) ...... var. celata. 



Above greenish-olive, beneath bright greenish-yellow ; white 

 edges to inner webs of tail-feathers obsolete. (Pacific Province 

 of North America.) ....... var. I atescens. 



Similar to var. celata, but plumage darker and more dingy. No 

 white edgings to tail-feathers, and apparently no rufous on the 

 crown in either sex. (Georgia, Florida, etc.) . . var. o h .s- c u r a . 

 No rufous on crown. 



8. peregrina. Above olive-green ; head and neck pure ash ; beneath 

 continuous white. Hab. Eastern Province of North America north to 

 Fort Simpson, H. B. T south to Panama. Cuba (rare). 



Helminthophaga chrysoptera, ('ab.\n. 



GOLDEN-WINGED WAKBLEE. 



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Motacilla chrysoptcra, LiNN. tj. Nat. 1, 1766, 333. Sylvia chr. Lath. — WiLs. Am. Om. 

 II, pi. XV. fig. 5. — BoN. Sylvicola chr. Bon. Hdmaia chr. AuD. Birds Am. II, pi. 

 cvii. Hclmilhcrus chr. BoN. — Sclateu, P. Z. S. 1S55, 143 (Bogota). HdmintJiophtiga. 

 chrysopteru, Cab. Mus. Hein ; Journ. f. Orn. 1860, 328 (Costa Rica). — Baikd, Birds 

 N. Am. 1858, 255 ; Rev. 175. — Sclatek & Salvix, Ibis, II, 1860, 397 (Choctum, 

 Guatemala). — Salvin, 1867, 135. — Dresser, Ibi-s, 1865, 477 (San Antonio). — Law- 

 rence, Ann. N. Y. Lye. VII, 1861, 293 (Panama). — Gundl. Cab. Journ. 1861, 326 

 (Cuba, rare). Afotacilla flavifrons, Gmelin. Sylvia flamfrons, L.\TU. 



Sp. Char. Upper parts uniform bluish-gray ; the head above and a large patch on the 



wings yellow. A broad streak from the bill 



through and behind the eye, with the chin, 



throat, and foroj)art of the breast, black. The 



external edge of the yellow crown continuous 



with a broad patch on the side of the occiput 



above the auriculars, a broad maxillary stripe 



widening on the side of the neck, the under parts 



generally, with most of the inner webs of the 



outer three tail-feathers, white; the sides of the 



body pale ash-color. Female similar, but duller. 



Length about 5 inches ; wing, 2.65 ; tail, 2.25. 



Hab. Eastern Province of United States, San 



Antonio (Dresser) ; Cuba (rare) ; Guatemala; Costa Rica; Panama; Bogota. Recorded 



in West Indies from Cuba only; not from Mexico. Veragua; Chiriqui (Salvix). 



Habits. So far as our present knowledge of tliis Warbler extends, it is 

 nowhere a common species, and is distributed over a comparatively small 



Hdviinthophaqa celata. 



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