466 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



HELMINTHOPHILA CELATA LUTESCENS Ridgway. 

 ITITESCENT WARBLER. 



Similar to //. e. celata, but much more ))rio-htl3' colored, the upper 

 parts bright olive-green, the under parts distinctly yellow (bright 

 olive-yellow to nearly gamboge); young very different from that of 

 H. c. celata. 



Young in first plumage. — Above plain olive-green, the middle and 

 greater wing-coverts more or less distinctly tipped with paler or with 

 buffy; under parts buffy olive-}'ellow or straw yellow, more or less 

 strongly shaded with olive on chest, sides, and flanks (often on throat 

 also). 



Adxdt //«//6.— Length (skins), 106.7-113 (109.7); wing, 5S.2-61.2 

 (59.9); tail, 44.7-49 (47); exposed culmen, 9.4-9.6 (9.4); tarsus, 17.5- 

 18.3 (18).^ 



Adult female.— \^^xi^i\i (skins), 101.6-111.8 (10.S.4); wing, 56.9-61 

 (58.9); tail, 45.7-47 (46.2); exposed culmen, 9.9-10.2 (10); tarsus, 

 17.3-17.8 (17.5).*^ 



Breeding in Pacific coast district, from mountains of southern Cali- 

 fornia (Los Angeles Co.) to island of Kadiak and shores of (^ook Inlet, 

 Alaska, and eastward to Ruby Mountains, Nevada; eastward and south- 

 ward during migration to Montana (Columbia Falls), Wyoming (Fort 

 Bridger), Colorado, Arizona, and Cape St. Lucas, and through western 

 Mexico to Guatemala (Chimay). 



Sylvia celata (not oi Say, 1823) Townsend, Joiirn. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 1839, 

 153, part (Columbia R. ). 



Sylvicola celata (not of Richardson, 1837) Finscji, Abh. Nat. Bremen, iii, 1872, 

 36 (Sitka, Alaska). 



Verviivora celata (not of Bonaparte, 1838) Gambel, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, 

 1846, 155 (California); Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1847, 17 (California). 



Helinaia celata (not of Audubon) Heermann, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, 1853, 

 263 (California, abundant). 



Helm'mthophuga celatii Baikd, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 257, part (speci- 

 mens fntm Oregon and California); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 184, part; 

 Review Am. Birds, 1865, 176, part (San .Jose, Lower California). — Sclater, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 298 (La Parada, Oaxaca); 1859, 235 (Vancouver 

 I.), 373 (Oaxaca); 1862, 19 (La Parada).— X a ntus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., xi, 1859, 191 (Fort Tejon, California). — Cooper and Suckley, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 178 (Fort Steilacoom and Dalles, Ore- 

 gon). — Lord, Proc. Roy. Art. Inst. Woolw., iv, 1864, 115 (British Columbia). — 

 Brown, Ibis, 1868, 420 (Vancouver I.).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 83, part.— 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 116, part (Chimay, 

 Guatemala). 



Helminthophaga celata . . . var. Baird, Brewer, and Ridgwav, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, pi. 11, fig. 4 (Cape St. Lucas). 



Helminihophila celata Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 640, i)art (VaTi- 

 couver I.; San Francisco and Nicasio, California; Mazatlan and I'resitiio, 

 Sinaloa, and La Parada, Oaxaca; Chimay, Guatemala). 



* Six si^ecimens. ^ Three specimens. 



