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small young of their remaining parent. What was my surprise two days later 

 to find that the single male and the other female had combined forces and were 

 feeding the youngsters of the second nest. I verified this by shooting the male, 

 and his new mate continued to leed her adopted children. We were pretty well 

 acquainted with the shrike population of that section of Clemente, and no matter 

 which birds we shot, there always seemed to l)e others that came in to take their 

 places and join forces with the widows and widowers. 



164. Vireo huttoni huttoni Cassin 



IIUTTON ViREO 



Vireo huttoni. (1) Belding, Land Birds Pac. Dist., 1890, p. 203. (?) Townsend, Proc. U. 



S. Nat. Mus., xm, 1890, p. 141. (3) Keeler, Zoe, i, 1891, p. 341. 

 Vireo huttoni (?) (^) Mailliard, Bull. Cooper Oru. Club, i, 1899, p. 44. 

 Vireo mailliardorum (5) Grlnnell, Condor, v, 1903, p. 157. (6) Linton, Condor, x, 1908, 



p. 181. 

 Vireo huttoni mailliardorum (7) Ridgway, Birds North & Mid. Am., iii, 1904, p. 743. (S) 



Linton, Condor, x, 1908, p. 128. 

 Vireo huttoni Mtttoni (9) Willett, Pac. Coast Avif., 7, 1912, p. 93. (10) Grinnell, Pac. 



Coast Avif., 11, 1915, p. 143. 



Rather common resident of Santa Cruz, and present on Catalina. In the 

 latter locality F. Stephens (1) took a female during August, 1886. A subspecies, 

 V. mailliardorum was described from Santa Cruz Island by J. Grinnell (5). 

 Said to be slightly smaller than huttoni, especially the bill, darker, more leaden 

 olive above and a little more huffy yellow below posteriorly. The differences, 

 however, were deemed by the A. O. U. Committee as too slight for recognition. 

 A. van Rossem and I found the species fairly common on Santa Cruz in April, 

 1911, and M-e took several specimens. C. B. Linton ((S) reported it as present in 

 some numbers during November and December, 1907. 



165. Vermivora celata celata (Say) 



Orange-crowned Warbler 



Helminthophila celata celata (i) Linton, Condor, x, 1908, p. 128. 

 Vermivora celata celata (2) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 11, 1915, p. 145. 



C. B. Linton (1) shot a bird of this species on Santa Cruz Island, Novem- 

 ber 29, 1907, M'hich was afterwards lost. Both he and G. Willett, who was with 

 him at the time, inform me, however, that there was not the slightest doubt but 

 that the specimen was referable to this form. 



166. Vermivora celata sordida (C. H. Townsend) 



Dusky Warbler 



Helminthophaga celata (1) Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., iv, 1870, p. 78. (:3) Cooper, 

 Land Birds Calif., i, 1870, p. 83. (3) Henshaw, Rep. Wheeler Surv.. 1876, p. 233. 



Helminthophila celata lutescens ()) Henshaw, Auk, in, 1886, p. 453. (J) Blake, Auk, iv, 

 1887, p. 330. (6) Belding, Land Birds Pac. Dist, 1890, p. 206. 



Hielminthophila']. celata lutescens (7) Streator, Orn. & Ool., xiii, 1888, p. 53. 



Helminthophila celata lutescens (?) (.s') Keeler, Zoe, i, 1891, p. 339. 



Helminthophila celata sordida (9) Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, pp. 139, 



