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observed it in Utah, cousidering it quite common about Ogden; 

 Eidgway noticed it in Nevada; and Hensbaw has latterly 

 recorded a number of specimens from Arizona, in which Terri- 

 tory he states that it probably occurs only as a migrant, and 

 that he found it common in August and September in the vicin- 

 ity of Camp Crittenden. I have collated numerous Mexican 

 records, presented in the foregoing synonymy, but have found 

 110 evidence that the bird is known at all either from Central 

 America or the West Indies. 



In the greater part of the United States, it has the reputation 

 of a migratory bird ; but I suspect that it will finally be ascer- 

 tained to breed much farther south than it is now known to do, 

 particularly in the higher mountains of the West, both along 

 the Eocky Chain and in the Sierras of California ; for various 

 birds, like the Kinglets and Titlarks, nestle there in latitudes 

 to which they are strangers during the breeding season in the 

 East. Most of our accounts of its nidiflcation come from the 

 ornithologists of New England, and especially of Massachu- 

 setts, where the study of our birds has long been pursued with 

 unusual ardor and commensurate success. North of this lati- 

 tude, the Nashville Warbler will probably be found as a summer 

 resident wherever found at all. Several excellent accounts of 

 its habits and satisfactory descriptions of its nest and eggs 

 having already appeared, I shall not pursue the subject, the 

 purpose of this article being rather to signalize the occurrence 

 of the bird in the region now under consideration, and indicate 

 its wide dispersion in North America and Mexico, than to pre- 

 sent its history in full. 



Orange-cro^Fiied "Wartoler 



Hclminttaopbaga celata 



a. celata 

 SylTia ce!ata, Sat/, Long's Exped. R. Mts. i. 1823, 169— Bp. AO. i. 1825, 45, pi- 5, f. 2 — Bp. 



Ann. Lye. N. T. ii. 1826, 88.— Xutt. Man. i. 1832, 413.— Awd. OB. ii. 1834, 449, pi. 178.— 



Towns. Journ. Phila. Acad. viii. 1839. 1 33.— Pec.b. Rep. Orn. Mass. 1839, 313. 

 Sylvicola celata, /iic/i. Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. for 1836, 1837, ra.—Finsch, Abh.Nat. 



iii. 1872, 36 (Alaska). 

 Vermivora celata, Bp. CGL. 1838, 21 — .A'w«. Man. i. 2d ed. 1840, ATi.—Gamh. Vv. Phila. 



Acad. iii. 1846, 155.--Ga»n6. Journ. Phila. Acad. i. 1847,37. — JTo?/, Pr. Phila. Acad. vi. 



1853, 312. 

 Helinaia celata, Awi. Syn. 1839, 69.-J.Md. BA. ii. 184), 100, pi. 112.— fl^ecrm. Jouru. Phila. 



Acad. ii. 1853, 263.— PraHew, Tr 111. Agric. Soc. i. 1855, 602. 

 Mniotilta celata, Grmj, G. ofB. i. 1848, 196.— Gieb. Nomeuc. Av. ii. 1875,601. 

 Helmitheros celata, Bp. Syn. C A. i. 1850, 315. 

 Helmitheros celatus, Scl. PZS. 1857,212 (Orizab.a). 



