92 SINGING BIRDS — OSCINES. 



JIdb. Pacilic C<i;ist, Nurtli Aiiicrica: smith tu AU'xico and (juatemala. A straggler 

 taken near Pliilail('l|)liia. 



Small flocks of this species arrivea near San Diego, with D. nigresceTis, 

 about April 20, 18G2, but I have not seen them elsewhere during sum- 

 mer, and they are very scarce at the Columbia Eiver, being sujjposed to 

 pass by there on their way to more nortliern regions, or perhaf)s to the 

 highest parts of the mountains. I shot two in November, 1855, near Santa 

 Clara, and saw what 1 sujjposed to be this species at Shoalwater Bay, W. T., 

 as late as l)ecember 25, 1854, so tliat it is very jmjbable they may be 

 more common in tliis State in winter tlian summer. 



In tlie north they frequent the higher parts of tlie lofty firs, and are 

 therefore less easily seen than (jther species. In this State I found them 

 when migrating among low willows and other bushes. 



The sjjring plumage does not diti'er materially from that described by 

 Baird from fall specimens. 



Dendroeca occidentalis, Thwxsend. 



THE WESTERN WARBLER. 



Sijlvid occidentalis. Townsend, J. A. N. So. VII. ii. I8:j7, 190. In. Narrative, 18.39, .340.— 

 Audubon, Orn. Biog. V. 1839, 55; pi. 55. — Sylricula oroy™fa/('s, Boxapaute, List, 

 1838. — Audubon, Svn. 1839, 60. Ib. Bird.s Amer. II. 1841. 60; pi. 93. — Nuttall, 

 Man. 2d ed. I. 445. — Lkudmica orcidentaHs, Baird, P. K. Rep. IX. Birds. 268. — 

 Cooper and Suckley, XII. iii. Zool. of W. T. 178. 



Sp. CllAlt. Crown, with .■^iile.-i of the head and neek, continuou.s bright yellow, leathers 

 of the former narrowly edged with black ; rest of upper parts dark brown, edged with bluish- 

 gray, so much so on the baek and rump feathers as to obseure the brown, and with an 



olivaceous shade. Chin, throat, and fore part of breast (ending convexly behind in a sub- 

 crescentic outline), black ; rest of under parts white, faintly streaked on the sides with 

 black. Two white bands on the wing, two outer tail leathers, and the terminal ])ortion 

 of a third, white ; the shafts, and an internal streak towards the end, dark brown. 

 Length, 4.7.i ; wing, 2.70 ; tail, 2. .30. Rill jet black ; legs brown. 

 Hab. Pacific Coast, north to Pnget's Sound. 



