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a brownish tinp;e above; middle and secondary coverts tijiped witli dull fulvous, fui-ry, in- 

 conspicuous bunds. No trace of orange on tlie crown. 



IIab. Pacific Province of North America, from Alaska to Cape St. Lucas. Straggling 

 eastward to about the 116th meridian. Not found in Mexico? 



The differences between the Pacific coast specimens of the H. cdata and 

 those from the interior regions — first pointed out in the Review of Ameri- 

 can Birds — are very readily ap)preciable upon a comparison of specimens. 

 Tlie present bird is a coast variety, entirely replacing tlie true cclaUi (var. 

 cdata) in the region above indicated. 



Helminthophaga peregrina, Caban. <^ 



TENNESSEE WAKBLER. 



Sylvia pcrcgrma, WiLs. Am. Oru. IV, 1811, 8-3, pi. .xxv, fig. 2. — AuD. Orn. Biog. II, pi. 

 cliv. S'l/lvicnlii per. Eicu. Vennivora })er. BoN. Hclinaia per. AuD. Birds Am. II, 

 pi. ex. Hclmitherus per. BoN. BelminthopJmrja per. CA.B. Mus. Hein. — Is. Jour. 

 Orn. 1861, 85 (Costa Rica). — B.iUiD, Birds N. Am. 1858, 258; Rev. 178. — Sclater 

 & Salvin, Ibis, 1860, 31 (Guatemala). — Sclatee, P. Z. S. 1859, 373 (Oaxaca) ; Catal. 

 1861, 29, no. 180. — Lawkenoe, Ann. N. Y. Lyo. 1861, 322 (Panama). — Gundlach, 

 Cab. Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba, very rare). Sylvia tenmsscei, Vieillot, Eucycl. Me'th. 

 II, 1823, 452. ? Sijlvia missiiriensis. Max. Cab. Jour. VI, 1858, 117. 



Sp. Char. Top and sides of the head and neck ash-gray ; rest of upper parts olive- 

 green, brightest on the rump. Beneath dull white, faintly tinged in places, especially on 

 the sides, with yellowish-olive. Eyelids and a stripe over the eye whitish ; a dusky line 

 from the eye to the bill. Outer tail-feather with a white spot along the inner edge near 

 the tip. Female with the ash of the head less conspicuous ; the under parts more tinged 

 with olive-yellow. Length, 4.50 ; wing, 2.75 ; tail, 1.85. 



Hab. Eastern Province of North America ; Calais, Me. ; north to Fort Simpson, H. B. 

 T. ; Mexico ; Oaxaca ? Guatemala ; Costa Rica ; Panama R. R. Very rare in Cuba. 

 Veragua (Salvin). Chiriqni (Lawrence). 



Autumnal specimens and young birds are sometimes so strongly tinged 

 with greenish-yellow as to be scarcely distinguishable from IT. cclata. The 

 wing is, however, always longer, and the obscure whitish patch on the 

 inner edge of the exterior tail-featlier, near its tip, is almost always ap- 

 precialile. In cclata this edge is very narro\\'ly and uniforndy margined 

 with whitish. 



A young liird of the year, from Fort Simpson (27,228), lias two distinct 

 greenish-white bands on the wings, and the foi-ehead and cheeks greenish- 

 yellow. A corresponding age of ff. cclata has the wing-bands more reddish- 

 brown, the wings shorter, and no white patch on the outer tail-feather. 



Habits. Like the Nashville Warbler the present species has received a 

 name inappropriate to one with so northern a distribution. It was first ob- 

 tained on the banks of the Cumberland lliver by Wilson, and has since been 

 known as the Tennessee Warbler. But two specimens were ever oljtained 

 by him, and he regarded it as a \ery rare species. He found them hunting 



