192 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



5. virginiae. Above ash to the rump, beneath white. A patch on the 

 jugukim, with the upper and lower tail-coverts, yellow. Hah. Rocky 

 Mountains of United States, west to East Humboldt Mountains. 



6. luciae. Above ash, beneath continuous white. Upper tail-coverts 

 chestnut. Hab. Colorado region of Middle Province. 



7. celata. Above continuous olive-green, below continuous pale yel- 

 low. (Orange on crown in ^ only ?) 



Above ashy-olive, beneath yellowish olivaceous-white ; inner 

 webs of tail-feathers broadly edged with white. (Middle regions 

 of North America; Mexico.) ...... var. celala. 



Above greenish-olive, beneath bright greenish-yellow ; white 

 edges to inner webs of tail-feathers obsolete. (Pacific Province 

 of North America.) . . . . . . . var. lutescens. 



Similar to var. celata, but plumage dai'ker and more dingy. No 

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

 crown in either sex. (Georgia, Florida, etc.) . . var. ohscura. 

 d. No rufous on crown. 



8. peregrina. Above olive-green ; head and neck pure ash ; 1 leneath 

 continuous white. Hah. Eastern Province of North Aniei-ica north to 

 Fort Simpson, H. B. T south to Panama. Cuba (rare). 



Helminthophaga chrysoptera, ( aban. 



GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. 



Motctcilla chrysoptera, Linn. S. Nat. I, 1766, 333. Sylvia chr. Lath. — Wils. Am. Orn. 

 II, pi. XV. fig. 5. — Bon. Sylvicola chr. Bon. Helinaia chr. Am. Birds Am. U, pi. 

 cvii. Helmithcrus chr. Bon. — Sclater, P. Z. S. 1855, 143 (Bogota). Helminthophaga 

 chrysoptera, Cab. Mus. Hein ; Jouni. f. Orn. 1860, 328 (Costa Rica). — Baird, Bird.s 

 N. Am. 1858, 255 ; Eev. 175. — Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, II, 1860, 397 (Choctmn, 

 Guatemala). — Salvin, 1867, 135. — Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 477 (Saii Antonio). — Law- 

 rence, Ann. N. Y. Lye. VII, 1861, 293 (Panama). — Gundl. Cab. Journ. 1861, 326 

 (Cuba, rare). 3f otacilla flavifrons, Gmkli'H. Sylvia flavifrons, Latu. 



Sp. Char. Upper parts uniform bluish-gray ; the head above and a large patch on the 



wings yellow. A broad streak from the bill 

 through and behind the eye, with the chin, 

 throat, and forepart of the breast, black. The 

 external edge ■ of the yellow crown continuous 

 with a broad patch on the side of the occiput 

 above the auriculars, a broad maxillary stripe 

 widening on the side of the neck, the under parts 

 generally, with most of the inner webs of the 

 outer three tail-feathers, white ; the sides of the 

 body pale ash-color. Female similar, but duller. 

 Helminthophaga celata. Length about 5 inches ; wing, 2.6.5 ; tail, 2.25. 



Hab. Eastern Province of United States, San 

 Antonio (Dresser) ; Cuba (rare) ; Guatemala; Costa Rica ; Panama; Bogota. Recorded 

 in West Indies from Cuba only; not from Mexico. Veragua; Chiriqui (Salvin). 



Habits. So far as our present knowledge of this Warbler extends, it is 

 nowhere a common species, and is distributed over a comparatively small 



