266 XORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



in the tops of the loftiest firs and otlier evergreens of the forests, where it is 

 almost imjjossible to procure them. 



Dr. Cooper observed one of this species at Shoalwater Bay, December 20, 

 1854. It was in company with a tlock of Titmice and other small birds. 

 The following year, in Xovember, he saw a small Hock in California, fre- 

 quenting the willows in a low wet meadow, and was so fortunate as to 

 procure a pair. 



liidgway met with it in the East Humboldt Mountains, where it was 

 rather common in September, inhabiting the thickets of aspens, alders, etc., 

 along the streams. 



i\Ir. P. L. Sclater obtained several fine specimens of this AYarbler from 

 the west coast of Central America, and Mr. Salvia found it a winter visitant 

 at Duenas, where he met with it even more frequently than the Dendroka 

 virens, with which he found it associated. Skms were found among the 

 birds taken by Dr. A'au Patten in (Juatemala. A single specimen has been 

 taken in Pennsylvania. 



^Ir. A. Boucard obtained specimens of this species in the mountainous dis- 

 trict of Totontepec, in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. 



Dendroica occidentalis, 1'..\ikd. 



WESTERN WARBLEB. 



Sylvia occidentalis, Towssknu, .1. A. N. Sc. Vll, ii, 1837, 190 (Columbia River). — Ib. 

 Narrative, 1839, 340. — Aud. Orn. Biog. V, pi. Iv. Sylvicola occ. Hip.s. ; Aid. Birds 

 Am. II, pi. xoiii. Dendroica occ. BAOiD, Birds N. Am. 1858, 268 ; Kev. 183. — 

 CoopEit & SrcKLEY, R. R. Rep. XII, ii, 1859, 178 (N. W. coa.st). — Cooper, Oni. 

 Cal. I, 1870, 92. Dendroica chrysopareia, Sci-ater, P. Z. S. 1862, 19 (La Parada, 

 Mex.) (not of P. Z. S. 1860, 19) ; Ibis, 1865, 89; 1866, 191. Dendroica niveivcnlris, 

 Sai.vin, p. Z. S. May 26, 1863, 187, \i\. x.\iv, fig. 2 (Guatemala). 



Sp. Char. Spring male. Crown with sides of the head and neck continuous bright 

 yellow, feathers of the former edged narrowly with black ; re.'st of upper parts dark brown, 

 edged with bluLsh-gray, so much so on the back and rump feathers as to obscure the brown, 

 and with an olivaceous shade. Chin, throat, and forepart of breajst Cending eonvexly be- 

 hind in a subcrescentic outline), with the nape, black ; rest of under parts white, very 

 faititly streaked on the .•<ides with lilack. Two white l)ands on the wing, two outer tail- 

 feathers, and the terminal portion of a third, white ; the shafts, and an internal streak 

 towards the end, dark brown. Bill jet-blaek; legs brown. Length, 4.7U; wing, 2.70; 

 tail, 2..30. 



Spring female. Similar, liut duller gray above ; the yellow of the liead less extended, 

 and the throat whiti.sh spotted with dusky. 



Hab. Western Province of LTnited States and Mexico (Moyapam, winter, Sumichrast) 

 to Guatemala. Not seen at Cape St. Lucas. 



An autumnal iidult m;ile (;?(!, fi^l , C.natemala, December, received Ironi Air. 

 Salvin, and a type specimen of his " 7iiveweti.tr is") is inucli like the spring 

 male, having the throat wholty black, the feathers, however, faintly margined 



