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from the south rather late, and an average date for Lansing would be 

 about May 10. Mr. Swales, however, states that it arrives in the neighl)or- 

 hood of Detroit from April 26 to May 3, remaining through the middle 

 of May; and that it returns again in early September, remaining through 

 the month. Specimens were killed on Spectacle Reef Light, northern 

 Lake Huron, May 10 and 11, 1888, and September 26, 1886, September 

 24, 1889, and September 21, 1890. In the southern part of the state 

 it not infrequently lingers until the first week in October, being thus one 

 of the latest of our migrants to move south. 



The song in Manitoba, is described by Seton Thompson as a warble 

 "something like that of the Summer Warbler, and may be rendered, 'toit 

 toit toit toit chip-it-e-ip-it-e ipitiipitipitipiti,' the last part being a con- 

 tinuous twitter." 



TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION. 



Adult male: Crown with a chestnut patch, often more or less hidden; rest of the head 

 and neck above, bluish-ash; back, rump and upper tail-coverts olive-green, the wings 

 and tail dusky, edged with olive-green; entire under parts, including under tail-coverts, 

 bright golden yellow, sometimes washed with olive on the sides of the breast and belly; 

 a white ring around the eye; tail-feathers sometimes narrowly edged on inner webs with 

 whitish, but without white patches. Female similar, but somewhat duller, the chestnut 

 cro^\Tl patch often nearly invisible. In autumn the ash of the upper parts is browner, 

 the yellow below is duller, and the eye-ring is buffy instead of white. 



Length 4.20 to 5 inches; wing 2.25 to 2.45; tail 1.80 to 1.90. Female slightly smaller. 



267. Orange-crowned Warbler. Vermivora celata celata (Say). (646) 



Synonyms: Orange-crown. — Sylvia celatus, Say, 1823, Bonap., Nutt., Aud. — Helmin- 

 thophaga celata, Baird, 1858. — Helminthophila celata, Ridgw., 1882, and most subsequent 

 authors. 



Very similar to the Nashville Warbler, but more greenish-yellow below; 

 the crown patch orange or reddish-yellow instead of chestnut. 



Distribution. — Eastern North America, breeding as far northward as 

 the Yukon and Mackenzie River districts and southward through the 

 Rocky Mountains, and wintering in the South Atlantic and Gulf States 

 and Mexico. 



The Orange-crown probably is the least common of its genus found in 

 the state. In fact it should not be spoken of as common at all, being a 

 decidedly rare Inrd. Presumably it is a migrant only, arriving from the 

 south at about the same time as the Nashville and departing also at about 

 the same time. This species was not mentioned by Dr. Sager in 1839, 

 or by Cabot in 1850. Boies included it in his list of 1875, Covert in his 

 lists of 1878 and 1881, and Dr. Atkins took thi-ee specimens at Locke, 

 Ingham county, between September 11 and October 1, 1880. Dr. Gibbs 

 never met with a specimen alive near Kalamazoo, but states that Mr. 

 F. H. Chapin secured one in that county. Covert took one at Ann Arbor 

 April 23, 1879 and another on May 7 the same year. Norman A. Wood 

 has a specimen taken at Ann Arbor, and another collected on Charity 

 Island, Saginaw Bay, September 29, 1910. Swales and Taverner took 

 a specimen in St. Clair county Septeml)er 25, 1904, and J. Claire A\'ood 

 took a single specimen in Wayne county ^lay 9, 1906, and three more 

 May 16, 1909. There are four records of the Orange-crowned Wai'bler 

 for Spectacle Reef Light, Lake Huron, viz., Mav 24 and 25, 1894, "August 

 30, 1894, and September 20, 1887. 



