234 MNIOTILTIDJE. 



c'. Three outer tail-feathers white for the greater 

 part of their inner web; forehead golden 

 yellow. 

 a". No black patch on throat ; a double white 



wing-bar pimts, p. 237. 



b". A large black patch on the throat ; no white 



■wino'-bar bachmanni, p. 239. 



d. No white on outer tail-feathers. 



c". No concealed rufous patch on the crown; 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts white 

 (or tinged with yellow in autumn). 

 a"'. Head and ear-coverts gi-ey ; eyebrow 



white ^ere5m'maaestiv.,p.239. 



b"\ Head and ear-coyerts yeUowish olive ; .,■,,„ ^^y. 



eyebrow yellowish et ad. autumn., p.241. 



d . A more or less concealed rutous patch on ' '^ 



the crown (often absent) ; imder tail- 

 coverts clear yellow. 

 c'". Crown-patch deep chestnut; head grey; 

 underparts bright yellow except the 

 lower abdomen, which is whitish . . ruficapilla, p. 242. 

 d'". Crown-patch pale orange-rufous. 

 «•'. Head gi'ej'isla; eyebrow and eyelid 

 white ; below pale yellow streaked 



with grey celata, p. 244. 



6*. Head olive ; eyebrow, eyelid, and 



under surface of body olive-yellow . lutescens, p. 246. 



c. Rump and upper tail-coverts bright olive-yellow, 



contrasting with the grey back; a concealed 

 chestnut patch on the crown; chin, breast, 

 and abdomen white ; sides of body ashy ; 

 throat with a bright yellow patch ; under 

 tail-coverts bright yellow virgini(B, p. 247. 



d. Upper tail-coverts chestnut, contrasting with 



the ashy-grey back ; under surface of body 

 ashy white ; a concealed chestnut patch on 

 the head Jucice, p. 248. 



Helminthophila lawrencii, Eidgw. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii. p. 52 (1882) ; 



Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 293 (1884). 



Like H. pinus ; but a large black patch on the throat and breast, and broad 



black eye-stripe reaching over auriculars, as in H. ckrysoptera ; thus it is H. pinus 



crossed with H. chrysoptcra, and doubtless a hybrid between the two. (Coues.) 



Hab. New Jersey ; two specimens noted to date (1884, Coues). 



2. Helminthophila ciNciNifATiExsis. 

 Helminthophaga cincinnatiensis, Langdon, Journ. Cincinn. Soc. Nat. Hist. 

 ii p. 119 (1880); id. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v. p. 208, pi. 4 (1880); 

 Coues, Check-list, p. 35 (1882). 

 Helminthophila cincinnnatiensis, Coues, Key JV. A^ner. B. 2nd ed. p. 293 

 (1884). 

 Like H. pinus in colour ; bill with evident rictal bristles ; no white wing-bars 

 or tail-blotches ; no ashy blue on wings or tail ; concealed black on crown and 

 sides of head like the incompleted black mark of Oporornis formosa, with which 

 the bird otherwise closely agrees in colour, thus curiously being H. pinus crossed 

 with 0. formosa. Length 4-75 inches, wing 2-50, tail 1-85, bill 0-44. One spe- 

 cimen known, Ohio. (Coii.es.) 



