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with yellow on throat aud breast. Wing and tail 

 feathers edged with ashy virglnke. 



Cinereous above ; whitish beneath. Upper tail coverts 

 chestnut-brown, as in the vertex. A dull patch of 

 white on outer tail feather ..... luclcc. 

 No concealed patch in the crown. 



Olive above ; the head and neck ashy. Beneath, with 

 lining of wing, white. A dull patch of white on 

 outer tail feather ....... pcregrina. 



From an examination of the recorded localities of Helminthophaga 

 it will be seen that, of the eight known species, one (celafa) belongs 

 to the western and middle provinces — straggling into the eastern, 

 especially along its borders ; two (virginise and Incise) are confined 

 to the southern region of the middle province ; while the other five 

 belong exclusively to the eastern province, most of them rather 

 southern in their range. Of these five, pinus and ruficapilla have 

 no West Indian localities given ; the others, cTiryaoptera, bachmani, 

 aud peregrina are very rare there, and found only in Cuba. Their 

 distribution in Mexico and Central America is varied ; but they 

 hardly belong at all to western Mexico. The most notable feature 

 in the distribution of both Hehninthopjhaga and HelmUherus, is 

 their not occurring in the West Indies at all except in Cuba, which 

 may be merely a stepping stone in the migration between Florida 

 and Central America, by way of Yucatan. 



Helmintliopliiaga pinus. 



Certhla pinus, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1, 1766, 187. — Syhia pinus, Lath., Vieill. 



(not of Wilson). — Helminthophaga pinus, Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 



254. — ScLATER & Salvin, Ibis, I, 1859, 11 (Guatemala). — Sclater, 



Catal. 1861, 28, no. 176. 

 Sylvia solitaria, Wilson, Am. Orn. II, pi. xv. — Aud. Orn. Biog. I, pi. 



XX. — Sglvicola sol. Rich. — Vermivo>-a sol. Sw. — Ileiinaia sol. Aud. 



B. A. II, pi. cxi. — Helmitherus sol. Bon. — Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, 



291 (Cordova). — Helminthophaga sol. Cab. 



Hub. Eastern province of U. S. (rather southern) : Eastern Mexico ; Guate- 

 mala. Recorded localities : Cordova, Mex. ; Cohan, Guat. Not noted from 

 West Indies. 



Locality. 



Carlisle, Pa. 

 St. Loni.s, Mo. 

 Creek Nation. 

 Cobaa, Vera Paz. 

 Slexico. 



When 

 Collected. 



May 6, '4-3. 

 May 12, '57. 



Received from 



S. F. Baird. 

 Lt. Bryan. 

 Capt. Sitgreaves. 

 O. Salvin. 

 Veireaux. 



Collected by 



S. F. Baird. 

 W. S. Wood. 

 Dr. Woodhouse. 



