452 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



the black and orange head-stripes. The March birds, however, have 

 apparently fully completed this moult, being in fine fresh plumage. 

 Mr. Smith's collectors secured a few specimens of this brilliant 

 warbler at Las Nubes (5,000 feet) in December, but it was not en- 

 countered by the writer except in February, March, and April. It 

 was fairly common about the plantation at Cincinnati at this season, 

 seeming there to prefer the shade-trees to the forest, although not 

 rare in the latter between 3,000 and 5,000 feet. The winter range of 

 the species is known to extend as far south as central Peru. 



425. Dendroica virens virens (Gmelin). 

 One specimen : Cincinnati. 



The winter range of this well-known warbler has not heretofore 

 been known to extend south of Central America, and even in Panama 

 and Costa Rica it is not common, according to Cooke (Bulletin Bio- 

 logical Survey, No. 18, 1904, 87). The capture of a single specimen 

 at Cincinnati on April 12, 1912, is therefore of peculiar interest, con- 

 stituting as it does the first South American record for the species. 

 The specimen is a male in perfect spring plumage, and the date is one 

 when the species has already appeared in North Carolina and Kentucky 

 on its northward migration. 



426. Dendroica caerulescens caerulescers (Gmelin). 



Dendroica cccrnlescens Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 177 

 (Las Nubes). — Allen, Auk, XVII, 1900, 367 (Las Nubes). — Cooke, Bull. 

 Biol. Survey, No. 18, 1904, 57 (Las Nubes, ex Allen). 



The Greater Antilles constitute the regular winter range of this 

 warbler, and its occurrence in the Santa Marta region can only be 

 regarded as accidental. The only known instance of its occurrence 

 here, and in fact the only known record for the South American con- 

 tinent, pertains to an adult male bird in the Smith collection, shot at 

 Las Nubes, at an altitude of 5,000 feet, on December 16, 1898. 



427. Dendroica erithachorides erithachorides Baird. 

 One specimen : Punto Caiman. 



The single specimen secured was shot on the beach at Punto Cai- 

 man on September 2y, 1913, in company with other warblers which 

 were flitting about among the shrubbery and low trees. Its sex was 

 not determined, but it appears to be an immature female, being white 



