268 NORTH AMEKICAX BIliDS. 



It was also observed, August 29, by Mr. Ridgway, among the bushes of a 

 canou among the East Humboldt iloimtauis. He descrilies its single note 

 as a lisped pxcd. 



Three individuals of tliis species were collected by ]VIi\ Boucard in Southern 

 Mexico in 1862, and were referred by Dr. Sclater to D. chr ijso-pcK.ia (P. Z. S., 

 1862, p. 19). Subsequently Mr. Salvin descrilied as a new species, under 

 the name of X*. niveiventris, other individuals of the D. ucridentalis obtained 

 by him in Guatemala. The true specific relations of tlie specimens both 

 from Southern ^lexico and Central America have since been made clear 

 by Dr. Sclater, Ibis, 1865, p. 87, enabling u.-< to give this species as a winter 

 visitant of the countries above named. Mr. Salvin states (Ibis, 1866, p. 191) 

 that these birds were found in most of the elevated districts w-here pines 

 abound. He procured specimens in the Volcan de Fuego, in the hills above 

 the Plain of Salama, and near the mines of Alotepecjue. 



Dendroica pinus, Baird. 



PINE-CEEEPING WAEBLEE. 



Sylvia pinus, WiLs. Am. Oni. Ill, ISll, 25, pi. xix, fig. 4. — Box. ; NriT. — AuD. Orn. 

 Biog. n, pi. cxi. Thnjniluiruji jtinus, Steph. Sijlvieola pinus, Jaku. ; Rich. ; Bun. ; 

 AuD. Birds Am. 11, pi. Ix.xxii. — .loXES, Nat. Bermuda, 1859, 59 (abundant in Oct.). 

 Wiimanphus pimis. Box. Dendroica pinus, Baikd, Birds N. Am. 1858, 277 ; Eev. 190. 

 — Sclater, Catal. 1861, 31, no. 189. — CouES, Pr. A. K. Sc. 1861, 220 (Labrador 

 coast). — Samcels, 229. — Bryaxt, Pr. Bost. Soc. 1867, 67 (Inagua). Sylvia vigorsii, 

 AuD. Orn. Biog. I, 1832, 153, pi. xxx. Virco vigorsii, NuTT. 



Sp. Char. Spriufj male. Upper parts nearly uniform and clear olive-green, the feath- 

 ers of the crown with rather darker shafts. Under parts generally, except the middle 

 of the belly behind, and under tail-coverts (which are white), bright gamboge-yellow, with 

 obsolete streaks of dusky on the sides of the "breast and body. Sides of head and neck 

 olive-green like the back, with a broad superciliary stripe ; the eyelids and a spot beneath 

 the eye very obscurely yellow; wings and tail brown; the feathers edged with dirty 

 white, and two bands of the same across the coverts. Inner web of the first tail-feather 

 with nearly the terminal half, of the second with nearly the terminal third, dull incon- 

 spicuous white. Lengtli, .5.50 ; wing, 3.00 ; tail. 2.40. (l,3o().) 



Spring female. Similar, but more grayi.sh above, and almost grayish-white, with a tinge 

 of yellow beneath, instead of bright yellow. Young. Umber-brown above, and dingy 

 pale ashy beneath, with a .slight yellowish tinge on the abdomen. Wing and tail much as 

 in the autumnal adult. 



Hab. Eastern Province of United States, north to Ma.ssachusetts ; winters in United 

 States. Not recorded in West Indies or Middle America (except Bahamas and Ber- 

 muda ?). 



Autumnal males are much like spring individuals, but the yellow beneath 

 is softer and somewhat riclier, and the olive above overlaid with a reddish- 

 umber tint. 



Habits. The Pine-creeping Warbler is fmind more or less abundantly 

 throughout the United Stales from the Atlantic to the Valley of the Missis- 



