244 KNIOTIlTrD^. 



/. S ad. sk. Laurel, Maryland, May 22 (G. U.S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 



Shoemaker). 

 (/. S ad. sk. West side of Rocky Mountains, J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.]. 



British Columbia. 

 h. 2 ad. sk. Crittenden, Arizona, Aug. 27 U.S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 



(H. W. Henshaw). 

 i. cJ ad. sk. Calaveras County, Calif., April U.S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 



{L. Beldinff). 



6. HelminthopMla celata. 



Sylvia celata. Say in Lonys Exped. Rocky Mts. i. p. 1(39 (1823) ; 

 Bp. Amer. Orn. i. p. 45, pi. 6. fig. 2 (1825) ; Auduh. B. Amer. 

 pi. 178 ; id. Orn. Biogr. ii. p. 449 (1844). 

 Vermivora celata, Jard. ed. Wils. Amer. Orn. iii. p. 3.32 (1832) ; 

 Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. Sf N. Amer. p. 21 (1838) ; Nutt. Man. 

 p. 473 (1840). 

 '&,jWico\&ce\iiiai, Richards. Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1836-37, p. 171; Finsch, 



Ahhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, 1872, p. 36. 

 Helinaia celata, Audub. Syn. p. 69; id. B. Amer. ii. p. 100, pi. 112 



(1841). 

 Mniotilta celata, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 196 (1848); id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 239, no. 3457 (1869). 

 Helmitheros celata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 315 (1850) ; Scl. P. Z. 8. 1859, 



p. 212. 

 Helminthophaga celata, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 257 (1858) ; id. 



U.S. Mex. Surv. ii. Birds, p. 10 (1859) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 298, 



1859, pp. 2.35, 373 ; id. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 19; id. Cat. Amei: B. 



p. 29 (1862) ; Blakist. Ihis, 1862, p. 4, 1863, p. 62 ; Baird, Review 



Amer. B. p. 176 (1865) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 477 ; Lawr. Ann. 



Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 284 (1860) ; Dall ^- Bann. Trans. Chicago Acad. 



1. p. 278 (1869) ; Stimichr. Mem. Bost. Soc. JV. H. i. p. 546 (1809) ; 



Cooper, B. Calif, p. 83 (1870) ; Allen, Btdl. Mus. Comp. Zool. 



Cambr. ii. p. 268(1872), iii. p. 175 (1872) ; Coties, Key N. Amer. B. 



p. 95 (1872) ; Scl. (^ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 8 (1873) ; Mmjn. 



B. Florid, p. 62 (1873) ; Coues, B. N.-West, p. 52 (1874) ; Hensh. 



List B. Arizona, p. 156 (1875); id. Zool. Exped. W. \Oi)th 



Merid. p. 191 (1876) ; Ridy^v. Rep. U.S. Geol. Sun: 40th Par. 



p. 429 (1877) : Coues, B. Color. Fall. p. 226 (1878) ; id. Bull. 



U.S. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 564 (1878) ; Sennett, t. c. p. 12 (1878) ; 



Merrill, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 123 (1878) ; Salv. Sf Godm. 



Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 116 (1880) ; Ridgiv.Bull. U.S. Nat. 



Mus. no. 21, p. 16 (1881) ; Coues, Check-list, p. 36 (1882) ; Nelson, 



Cruise R. S. ' Corwin,' p. 63 (1883) ; Hartl. J.f. 0. 1883, p. 267. 

 Helmintliophaga celata, var. celata, Baird, Brexver, 8f Ridqiu. Hist. 



N. Amer. B. i. p. 202, pi. 11. figs. 5, 6 (1874). 

 Helminthophila celata. Ridt/iv. Bull. Nutt. Orii. Cluh, vii. p. 54 



(1882) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 295 (1884). 



Adult. General colour above dull olive-yellowish, shaded with 

 ashy grey, clearer and brighter on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; 

 lesser wing-coverts like the back, the median and greater series 

 dusky, externally edged with olive, yellower on the extreme margins 

 of the feathers ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts nearly uniform 

 dusky brown, with very slight olive margins ; quills dusky brown, 

 edged with olive like the back, a little more ashy on the primaries, 



