BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 473 



Exped. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 189 (White Mts., Arizona, Aug. 11; Tierra 

 Amarilla, New Mexico, Sept. 15; Navajo Creek, Colorado, Sept. 11). — ]\Iinot, 

 Biih. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 22fi (Manitou, Colorado; descr. song). 



lHelminthoj)haga'] virginur Coves, Key N.Am. Birds, 1872, 94. 



H\^elminthophaga] virginix 'Rvdgw k\' , Ibis, 1876, 168 (diagnosis). 



\_Mmotilta] virginise Giebel, Thesaurus Orn., ii, 1875, 189. 



Hdminthophila virginLv Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, Jan., 1882, 54. — 

 Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 155 (Colorado Springs, Colorado; 

 remarks on plumage). — Sharps, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 247, 641. — 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 644. — ^Scott, Auk, 

 V, 1888, 38 (Catalina Mts., Arizona, above 3,500 ft.; breeding?). 



H[elmmt]iop]iila'] virginiie Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 294. — RiDciWAV, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 490. 



Hclmintophila vlrgi7i!:e NEHRhi'SG, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 188. 



HELMINTHOPHILA CRISSALIS Salvin and Godman. 

 COLIMA WARBLER. 



Similar to IT. vh^ginice^ but upper parts l^rown instead of gray, rump 

 " oleagineous " instead of olive-yellow, under tail-coverts oleagineous 

 chestnut instead of yellow, and under parts gray (without any yellow 

 on chest?). 



Adult ye/jt ale. — Above oleagineous brown, the lower ])ack and rump 

 clear oleagineous; crown with a partly concealed patch of chestnut; 

 wings and tail fuscous; orbital ring and lores white; beneath dull ash 

 gra3% the flanks more brownish, the middle of alxlomen whitish, the 

 under tail-coverts clear oleagineous chestnut; under wing-coverts 

 white; bill and feet dusky hazel, the mandible paler basally; length, 

 127; wing, 63.5; tail, 53.6; bill, from point to rictus, 14; tarsus, 19. 

 (Free translation of original description.) 



Southwestern Mexico, in State of Colima (Sierra Nevada.) 



Helminthophiln crissalis Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 6th ser., i, July, 1889, 380 

 (Sierra Nevada, Colima, Mexico; cell. Salvin and Godman). 



HELMINTHOPHILA I.UCIJE (Cooper). 

 LTTCY'S WARBLER. 



Adult male in spring midsummer. — Above plain mouse gray; crown 

 chestnut, the feathers more or less extensiveh' tipped (except in worn 

 plumage) with gray; upper tail-coverts bright chestnut; lores, orbital 

 ring, and entire under parts white, tinged with pale brownish gray lat- 

 eralh', and also tinged more or less strongly with buff, especially on 

 chest; maxilla dusky horn color with paler tomia; mandible paler, 

 more grayish; iris brown; legs and feet dusky (in dried skins). 



Adult male in autumn and winter. — Similar to the spring and summer 

 plumage, but above tinged with brown, the chestnut crown-patch con- 

 cealed by very broad brownish gray tips to the feathers; under parts 

 pale brownish buff, beconiing white, or nearly so, on abdomen. 



