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with aahy grey on the head and back, paler and clearer on the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts ; lesser wiug-coverts like the back ; median 

 and greater coverts dusky brown, externally dull olive, a little more 

 ashy on the margins of the feathers ; bastard-wing and primary- 

 coverts dusky, very narrowly edged with olive ; quills dusky brown, 

 edged with ashy olive ; tail-feathers dark brown, edged with yellowish 

 olive like the rump, and fringed with white near the end of the 

 inner web : head resembling the back, with a concealed coronal patch 

 of orange-chestnut ; eyelid and a streak over the eye clear olive- 

 yellow ; lores and a small mark behind the eye blackish ; ear-coverta 

 olive-greenish ; cheeks and under surface of body pale olive-yellow, 

 lighter on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; the breast slightly 

 streaked with lighter yellow ; sides of the body rather more olive : 

 axiUaries and under wing-coverts pale olive-yellow, brighter on the 

 edge of the wing ; quiUs dusky below, whitish along the edge of the 

 inner web. Total length 4-2 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-3, tail 1*9., 

 tarsus 0-65. 



Hah. Pacific coast-region, from Alaska to California (Coues). 

 Winters in Mexico and Guatemala (vide p. 245). 



a, h, (S ad. sk. Orcas Island. Dr. Lyall [P.]. 



e, (?. c? 2 ad. sk. West side of Rocky Moim- J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.]. 



tains, British Columbia. 



e,f. Ad. sk. California. Pm'chased. 



g. Ad. sk. California. Sclater Collection. 



h. S ad. sk. Nicosio, California, April 27 E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



{C. A. Allen). 



i. Ad. sk. La Paz, California {L. U.S. Nat. Museum [P. J. 



Beldim/). 



k, I. Ad. sk. Mexico. Gould Collection. 



8. Helminthopliila virginiae. 



Helminthophaga Virginia?, Baircl, B. X. Amer., Adas, p. xi, footnote, 



pi. 79. fig. 1 (1860) ; id. Eevieiu Amer. B. p. 177 (1865) ; Cooper. 



B. Calif, p. 85 (1870) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 94 (1872) ; id. 



B. N.-West, p. 51 (1874) ; Baird, Brewer, ^' Ridgiv. Hist. N. Amer. 



B.i. p. 199, pi. 11. fig. 12, iii. App. p. 504 (1874) ; m>ish. Sep. Orn. 



Spec. 1874, p. 41 ; id. List B. Arizona, p. 156 (1875) ; id. Zool. 



Expl. W. lOOth Merid. p. 189 (1876) ; Ridgw. Rep. U.S. Geol. 



Expl. iOfh Par. p. 428 (1877) ; Coues, B. Color. Vail. p. 222 (1878) ; 



Ridgw. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 16 (1881) ; Coues, Check- 

 list, p. 35 (1882). _ _ 

 Helminthophila virginiae, Ridgw. Bull, Nutt. Orn. Cltib, vii. p. 'A 



(1882) ; Allen S) Brewsf. op. cit. viii. p. 155 (1883) ; Coues, Key N. 



Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 294 (1884). 



Adult male (Colorado Springs, Colorado, May 13 ; W. Brewster). 

 General colour above clear ashy grey, leaving only the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts olive-yellow ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; 

 median and greater coverts dusky, more brownish ashy on the outer 

 webs ; bastard-wing brown ; primary-coverts and quills dusky, 

 narrowly edged with ashy brown, greyer on the outer edge of the 

 primaries ; tail-feathers dusky, edged with ashy, the two centre 

 ones washed with aahy ; entire head and neck clear ashy grey, with 



