BTEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 453 



the black throat- Y)atch and broad black band on side of head of //. 

 chtysoptera.^ 



New Jersey (Passaic River; Hoboken; Morristown); New York 

 (Westchester County); Connecticut (Portland; New Haven; Stam- 

 ford; Fairfield County). 



Helniinthophaga lawrencii Herrick, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1874, 220, pi. 15 

 (Passaic R., New Jersey; coll. H. Herrick). — Ridgway, Ibis, 1876, 170. — 

 CouES, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 214, footnote; Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 

 99.— Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 209, footnote. 



Hlelminthophaga} lawrencii Ridgway, Ibis, 1876, 168, 169 (diagnosis; crit. ). 



HelininilKyphaga lawrencei Herrick, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, 1877, 19 (Hoboken, 

 New Jersey).— Langdon, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 209, footnote.— 

 Ridgway, Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 80. — Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, vi, 1881, 218-225, in text (crit.).— Maynard, Birds E. U. S., 1882, 509. 



Hlebninthophila] laurencel Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, Jan. 1882, 53; 

 Auk, ii, 1885, 359, .361, 363, in text; Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 486.— Brewster, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 411 (Morristown, New Jersey; hybrid with H. pinus). — 

 Eames, Auk, vi, 1889, 305, 306, 307, 309, in text (Connecticut; habits, etc.) .— 

 Sage, Auk, x, 1893, 209, in text (Portland, Connecticut, 1 spec. May 14, 

 1887). 



Helminthophila laurencei American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, 

 no. 20.— Voorhees, Auk, v, 1888, 427 (Westchester Co., New York).— 

 Bishop, Auk, vi, 1889, 193 (New Haven and Stamford, Connecticut). 



H[elminthophila'] Idivrendif Coues, Key-N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 293. 



Helminthophila lanrendi Suarpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 233, footnote. 



H\ehninthophila'] laiurencii Voorhees, Auk, xi, 1894, 259, in text (Fairfield 

 Co., Connecticut). 



HELMINTHOPHILA LEUCOBRONCHIALIS (Brewster). 

 BKEWSTERS WARBLER. 



Similar in pattern of coloration (except, sometimes, as to win^-mark- 

 inos)to //. pl/)t(f<^ l)utthe back, etc., 1)hiish gniy instead of olive-g-reen, 

 and the under parts partly (sometimes wholly) white, instead of yellow; 

 wing-bands usually ( ?) coalesced and yellow (as in II. clirxjHO])tera)^ some- 

 times separated and white (as in //. pinuH). 



Adult male. — Forehead and anterior portion of crown gamboge yel- 

 low, becoming white laterally, immediately above the black line through 

 eye; occiput, hindneck, back, scapulars, rump, upper tail-coverts, and 

 tail plain l)luish gray (between slate-gray and plumbeous); exposed 

 portion of middle and greater wing-coverts mostly yellow (canary or 

 sulphur), forming a hirge and conspicuous patch; rest of wings dusky 

 with bluish gray edgings, these more or less tinged with olive-green 

 ontertials; inner webs of three outer rectrices extensively white ter- 

 minally, this occupying more than terminal half on outermost rectrix; 

 lower half of lores and a postocular streak black; suborbital region, 

 greater part of auricular region, malar region, and entire under parts 

 white, the sides and hanks pale gray, the breast sometimes tinged with 

 yellow; maxilla black, mandible more grayish; iris brown; legs and feet 



