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(near Boston, IMassachusetts, 1 spec., May 15). — Rhoadm, Auk, xvi, 1899, 312 



(Beaver, Laurel Ridge, etc., w.' Pennsylvania). — Bangs, Proe. Biol. Soc. 



Wash., xiii, 1899, 105 (Chirua, prov. Santa Marta, Colombia, Mar. 21).— Bru- 



NER, Proc. Nebr. Orn. Un., 2d an. meet., 1901, 57 (near Omaha, Nebraska, 



breeding). 

 H\_ehmnthophila'] pinus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884,293. — RiixiWAV, 



Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 486. 

 Helmint}iop(i(j(i piv as Gregg, Proc. Elmira Acad. Sci., 1870 (p. 8 of reprint). 

 HeI»iint]io]>ltag(i pi7ia Coves, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1868, 271 (s. New P^ngland). 

 Helmintopltila pinns Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 183, pi. 11, fig. 2. 

 Sylvia soUtana Wilson, Am. Orn., ii, 1810, 109, pi. 15, fig. 4 (e. Pennsylvania; 



coll. Peale Mus. ). — Vieillot, Enc. Meth., ii, 1823, 450. — Bonaparte, Journ. 



Ac. Nat. Sd. Phila., iv, 1824, 189; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 87.— Ni'ttall, 



Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 410.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 102, 



pi. 20. 

 Vermivora xolitarin Swainson, I'hilos. Mag., new ser., i, 1827, 434 (Vera Cruz, 



Mexico). — Jardine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., i,- 1832, 256. — Bonaparte, Geog. 



and Comp. List, 1838, 21. — Woodhouse, Rep. Sitgreaves' Exped. Zuni and 



Colorado R., 1853, 72 (Indian Territory, common, breeding). 

 St/lvieoJa S()lituria'RivuAiiT>soN, Hep. Brit. Assoc, for 1836 (1837), 171. 

 Helinaia i<ulitaria Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 69; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 98, 



pi. 111. 

 3f[niotilta'] solitaria Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 

 [HelimtheroN'] solitaria Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 315. 

 Hehnitherox solltarius Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1856, 291 (Cordova, Xera 



Cruz). 

 IIlehiiiiit}i<ii)h<t(j((~\ .snlitarid Cabanis, I\Ius. Ilein., i, 1850, 20, footnote. 



HELMINTHOPHILA BACHMANI (Audubon). 

 BACHMANS WARBLER. 



Ad/ult male. — Forehead, or])ital ring", miliar reg-ion, chin (sometimes 

 upper throat also), ])reast, and al)domen yellow (gam])oge); anterior 

 portion of crown black, the feathers (except sometimes the more 

 anterior ones) margined with gray; posterior portion of crown, occi- 

 put, and hindnock plain mouse gray; back, scapulars, and rump plain 

 olive-green, the last more yellowish; upper tail-coverts grayish olive- 

 green; anterior portion of lesser wing-covert area clear gamboge 

 yellow, the posterior portion, together with middle coverts, plain olive- 

 green (concealed portion of feathers darker); greater coverts and ter- 

 tials grayish olive-green; secondaries and primaries dusky grayish 

 edged with grayish olive-green, the longer primaries edged with pale 

 gray; tail dull gray, usually tinged with olive-green, the three to four 

 outer rectrices with a large subterminal patch of white on inner web; 

 auricular region olive-green, more or less tinged with gray posteriorly; 

 chest, together with more or less of throat, black, this sometimes 

 broken with yellow tips to feathers; flanks pale smok\" grayish; longer 

 under tail-coverts white, the shorter ones pale yellow; maxilla brown- 

 ish black, the mandible slightly paler (decidedly so in winter); iris 

 brown; legs and feet dusky horn color (in dried skins); length (skins), 



