CHARACTERS OF HELMINTHOPHAGA CELATA 227 



Helminthophaga celata, Bd. BNA. 1858, 251.— Scl. PZS. 1858, £98 (Parada).— ScZ. PZS. 1859, 

 2a5 (Vancouver) ; 373 (Oaxaca).— Xant. Pr. Phila. Acad. xi. 1859, 191 (California).— 

 Bd. U. S. Mex. B. Surv. pt. ii. 1859, Birds, 10.— Heerm. PRRR. x.1859, 40.— Coop. <£■ SttcU. 

 NHWT. 1860, 118.— Sd. Ives's Colo. Rep. pt. v. 1861, b.—Hayd. Tr. Amer. Philos. Soc. 

 xii. 1862, 160.— /ScJ. PZS. 1862, 19 (Parada).— JBJaA;. Ibis, iv. 1862, 4 (Saskatchewan).- 

 Blak. Ibis, v. 1863,'62.— Bd. Rev. AB. 1864, 176.— iord, Pr. Roy. Arty. Inst. iv. 1864, 

 115.— Allen, Pr. Ess. Inst. iv. 1864, 60 (Massachusetts).— Dress. Ibis, 2d ser. i. 1865, 477 

 (Texas). — Coues, Ibis, 2d ser. ii. 1806, 262 (Fort Yuma). — Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad, xviii. 

 1866, 70 (Fort Whipple).— Laior. Ann. Lye. N. T. viii. 1866, 284.— Cowes, Pr. Bost. Soc. 

 xii. 1868, 108 (South Carolina).— Ooites, Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1868, 271.— rnppe, Am. Nat. 

 ii. 1868, 181.— BroMi/i, Ibi}, 2d ser. iv. 1868, 420 (Vanconver).—BM<c;j. Pr. Phila. Acad. 

 sx. 1868, 149 (Texas).— (7oop. Am. Nat. iii. 18C9, 416.— Turnb. B. E. Pa. 1869, 53 ; Phila. 

 ed. Ai.—Dall <£ Bann. Tr. Chic. Acad. i. 1869, 278.— Coop. Pr. Cal. Acad. 187'>, 75.— Coop. 

 RCal. i. 1870, 83, Qg.— Allen, Bull. MCZ. ii. 1871, 268 (Florida) -Aii. Bull. MCZ. iii. 

 1872, 175 (Utah and Kansas).— Sfew. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr, for 1870, 1871, 463.— Coues, 

 Kev, 1872,95.— J. tA:e", Pr. Bost. Soc. xv. 1872, 96.— AiJen, Am. Nat. vi. 1872, 265, 390.— 

 Ridgw. Am. Nat. vii. 1873, 606.— liidgw. Bull. Ess. lust. v. 1873, 180 (Colorado).- 

 Mayn. B. Fla. 1873, 61.— Trippc, Pr. Bost. Soc. xv. 1873, 234.— Jfp.rr. U. S. Geol. Surv. 

 Terr, for 1872, 1873, m.—Herrick, Bull. Ess. Ins', v. 1873, p.— g^rand Menan).— 

 Snow, B. Kans. 1873,4. — Ridgw. Ann. Lye. N. T. x. 1874, 308.— Coop. Am. Nat. viii. 

 1874, 16.— Co?i«s, BN'W. 1871, 52.-Je»is/i. Rep. Orn. Specs. 1874, 41, 57, 74, 102.- J.?nes, 

 Ball. Minn. Acad. 1814,56.— Breiv. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1875, 439 (Massachusetts).- 

 Hensh. List B. Ariz. 1875, 156.— Hensh. Zool. Expl. W. 100 Merid. 1870, 191.— Foa;, 

 "Forest and Stream, vi. 354 " (New Hampshire).— i>reM)S<er, Bui!. Nutt Club, i. 1876, 

 94 (Mssachusetts, for the third time).— Ifinoi, B. N. Engl. 1877, 95. -Purdie, Bull. Nutt. 

 Club, ii. 1877, 21 (Rhode Island, in December).— Jlferr. Trans. Conn. Acad. iv. 1877, 15 

 (Massachusetts and Rhode Island). 



Helminthophaga celata var. celata, B. B. <£• 72. NAB. 1. 1874, 202, pi. 11, f 5, 6. 



Helminthophiiga celata var. obscura, Ridgiu.apud .B.B. (£72. NAB. i. 1874, 192. 



Orange-colored Warbler, Peab<idy. 1. c. 



Orange-crowned Warbler, Orange-crowned Swamp Warbler, Orange-crowned Vermi- 

 rora. Authors. 



b. lutescens 



Helminthophaga celata var. lutescens, Ridgw. Am. Journ. Sci. 1872, 451.— Ridgw. Am. 

 Nat. vii. 187.3, 606.— B. B. <& R. NAB. i. 1874, 204, pi. 11, f. 4. 



Helminthophaga celata b. lutescens, Com«s, BNW. 1874, 52. 



Pacific Orange-crowned Warbler, B. B. <£ R. 1. c. 



Hab. — North America at large, but especially the Western and Middle 

 Provinces; rare or occasional in theEastera Province. North regularly to 

 high latitudes in British America and Alaska. South into Mexico, but not 

 reco;inized as West Indian or Central American. Winters from the south- 

 ern borders of the United States southward. Var. lutescens along the Pacific 

 coast, from the Yukon River to Cape Saint Lucas. 



Ch. SP. — S 9 Olivacea^tiropygiomagisfiamcante; infra sordide 

 flavo-albida ; vertice aurantiaco. 



(J 9 > in summer: Upper parts olive, duller and washed with grayish to- 

 ward and on the head, brighter and more yellowish on the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts. Beneath greenish-white, palest on the belly and throat, more 

 olive-shaded on the sides ; the color not pure, but rather streaky, and having 

 in places a grayish cast. Wings and tail edged with the color of the back; 

 lining of the wings like the belly, and inner edges of tail-feathers whitish. 

 Orbital ring and lores yellowish. An orange-brown patch on the crown, 

 partially concealed, smaller and more hidden in the $ than in the i . Size 

 of ruficapilla 



