52 HELMINTHOPHAGA CELATA, ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER. 



This species, of \3rl1ich until lately only two specimens were known, 

 from the localities above quoted, has more recently been found to be 

 al)undant in Nevada and IJtah, by JMr. llidijjway, and the present year 

 has been ascertained to breed in Eastern Colorado, by Mr. Aiken, who 

 found a nest with eggs. It was concealed on the ground, iu a depression, 

 like that of H. ruficapUJa. Mr. Ridgway's nest, taken June 9, 1807, at 

 Salt Lake City, is loosely composed of coarse fibrous and fine grassy 

 material ; it contains three eggs, which measure 0.08 iu length by 0.48 

 iu breadth, and are white, thickly sprinkled all over with purplish-brown 

 and lavender spots, tending to wreathe around the large end. 



All the species of Helminthophafja occur within our limits, excepting 

 two — H. hachmanij an extremely rare species, from the South Atlantic 

 States and Cuba, and H. luciw, recently disc(|vered in Arizona. 



HELMINTHOPHAGA CELATA, (Say) Bd. 



Orange-crowned Warbler. 



a. celata. 



Si/lvia celata, Say, Long's Expeil. i, 1823, 169.— Bp., Am. Orn. i, 1825, 4.5, pi. 5, fig. 2; 

 Syn. 1828, 38.— Nutt., Man. i, 1832, 413.— Aud., Oru. Biog. ii, 1834, 449, pi. 178. 



Siilricola celata, Rich., List, 1837. 



Vcrmh-ora celata, Bp., List, 1838, 21. 



UcVinuia celata, AUD., B. Am. ii, 1841, 100, pi. 112. 



Bchnitherufi celata, Bp., Consp. Av. i, 1850, 315. 



Eelminthophaqa celata, Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 257; Rev. 1864, 176.— SCL., P. Z. S. 1858, 298 

 (Oaxaca); 1859, 373; 1802, 19 (La Parada).— Heerm., P. R. R. Rej). 1859, x, 

 part vi, 40.— Coop. & Suck., N. H. Wash. Ter. 1859, 178.— Ha yd.. Rep. 1362, 

 160.— ScL., P. Z. S. 1862, 19(Paia(la, Mex.).— Lord, Pr. Roy. Art. lust, iv, 1864, 

 115.— COUES, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1866, 68.— Allen, Pr. Ess. Inst, iv, 1864, 60 

 (Massachusetts). — Lawr., Anu. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. viii, 1866, 284 (New 

 York).— CouES, Pr. Bost. Soc. 1868, 107 (South Carolina).— Couks, Pr. Ess. lust. 

 V, 1868, 271 (New England).- Dall & Bann., Tr. Cbic. Acad, i, 1869, 278.— 

 Coop., Pr. Cal. Acad."l870, 75.— Coop., B. Cal. 83.— Allex, Bull. M. C. Z. ii, 

 1871, 268 (Florida).— Allen, Bull. M. C. Z. iii, 1872, 175 (Utah; Kansas).— 

 Mayn., B. Fla. 1872, 62.— Aiken, Pr. Bost. Soc. 1872, 196 (Colorado).— Stev., 

 U. S. Geol. Surv. Ter. 1870, 463.— Coues, Key, 1872, 95. 



b. lutescens, 

 Helmiutlwphaga celata var. lutescens, RiDGW., Am. Jouru. Sci. 1872, 457. 



Eah. — North America, at large, but chiefly the Middle and Western Provinces. North 

 to the Yukon and McKeuzie River regions. South to Oaxaca, Mex. Var. lutescens from 

 the Pacific region. (Some of the above quotations. belong here.) 



Not obtained by Captain Rayuohls' Expedition. 



Lieutenant Warren's Expedition. — 4672, Bon Homme Island ; 4673, mouth of Big Sioux 

 River. 



Later Expeditions. — 60698-9, Fort Bridger and Little Saudy; 60975, Green River. 



A var. ohscnrus, without the concealed orange crown-patch, from the South Atlautic 

 States, lately described by Mr. Ridgway, seems scarcely entitled to recognition by name. 



This species, first discovered in the Missouri region, was soon after- 

 ward noted by Nuttall from Florida, and Audubon subsequently ascribed 

 to it an extensive Eastern range. He says it is seen "iu the Southern 

 States, where it passes the winter, and while crossing the Union in early 

 si>ring on its way to those northeastern districts, where it breeds. It 

 leav(\s Louisiana, the Floridas and Carolinas, from the beginning to the 

 eud of April; is seen in the Middle States about the 10th of May, an<l 

 reaches the State of I\raine ami the British Provinces by the end of that 

 month. On its retain, besides settling iu the Southern States, it spreads 

 over the [)roviuces of Mexico, Irom whence individuals iu spring migrate 

 by the vast prairies, and along the shores of the western parts of the 

 Union, entering Canada in that direction in the first days of June * * * 



