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a. Ad. sk. Arctic America. 



6. Ad. sk. Rocky Mountains, Canada. 



e. Ad. autumn, sk. Chicago, 111., Oct. 9 {H. 



K. Coale). 

 (I Ad. ajstiv. sk. Chicago, 111., May 10 {H. 



K. C). 



e. Ad. autumn, sk. Colehour, Illinois. May 8 



(//. K. C). 



f. c? ad. vix aestiv. Rockport, Ohio, May 12 

 sk. (H. K C). 



<;. 2 ad. autumn sk. New Mexico, Sept. 11 



(C. U. Aikm). 

 h. Ad. hiem. sk. Orizaba, Mexico (Botteri). 



Dr. Rae [P]. 



R. B. Sharps, Esq. [P.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.J. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



U.S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 



Sclater Collection. 



Subsp. a. HelminthopMla obscura. 



Helminthopliaq-a celata, var. obscura, jRidgtv. in Baird, Brewer, 8^ 



Ridniv. Ilisf.JV. Avie.r. B. i. p. 192 (1874). 

 Helminth ophaga celata obscura, Alleii 8f B7-eivster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 



Club, viii. p. 157 (188.3). 



This race was described by Mr. Eidgway as follows : — " Similar 

 to H. celata, but the plumage darker and more dingy ; no white 

 edgings to tail-feathers, and apparently no rufous on the crown in 

 either sex." Subsequently he appears to have become convinced 

 that the race was not permanently recognizable, and it has been 

 recently ignored both by himself and by Dr. Coues. 



Messrs. Allen and Brewster, however, have lately insisted that the 

 race is weU distinguished, and have given the following description 

 of it :— 



Adult male. Above dark greenish plumbeous ; beneath dingy 

 greenish olive, darkest on the sides, palest on the middle of the 

 abdomen ; sides of head and neck scarcely lighter than back ; eyelids 

 and a short ill-defined superciliary stripe greenish yellow ; a concealed 

 crown-patch of deep orange-rufous ; inner webs of outer tail-feathers 

 narrowly margined with white near their terminal ends. 



Adult female. Lacking the rufous crown-patch ; otherwise similar 

 to the male. 



Hah. Georgia and Florida in winter, perhaps migrating north- 

 wards to breed. 



7. HelminthopMla lutescens. 



Helminthophaga celata, var. lutescens, Ridgto. Amer. Jottrn. Sci. 



1872, p. 4-57 ; id. Amer. Nat. vii. p. 600 (1873) ; Baird, Brewer, 



^ Bidf/iv. Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. 204, pi. 11. fig. 4 (1874). 

 Helminthophaga celata, /3. lutescens. Cones, B. N.-West, p. 52 



(1874) ; Ridejtv. U.S. Geol. E.vpl. 40th Par. p. 429 (1877) ; Coues, 



B. Color. Vcdl. p. 227 (1878). 

 Helminthophaga celata lutescens, Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. 



p. 171 (1880) ; id. Bull. U.S. Nat. Miis. no. 21, p. 16 (1881) ; 



Coues, Clieck-list, p. 3G (1882). 

 Helminthophila celata lutescens, Coues, Key N. Amer. B, 2nd ed. 



p. 295 (1884). 



Adtdt male. General colour above dull greenish olive, washed 



