268 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



It was also observed, August 29, by Mr. Eidgway, among the buslies of a 

 canon among the East Humboldt Mountains. He describes its single note 

 as a lisped pzeet. 



Three individuals of this species were collected by Mr. Boucard in Southern 

 Mexico in 1862, and were referred by Dr. Sclater to D. chrysopceia (P. Z. S., 

 1862, p. 19). Subsequently Mr. Salvin described as a new species, under 

 the name of D. nivciventris, other individuals of tlie D. uccidentalis obtained 

 by him in Guatemala. The true specific relations of the specimens botli. 

 from Southern Mexico and Central America have since been made clear 

 by Dr. Sclater, Ibis, 1865, p. 87, enabling us to give this species as a winter 

 visitant of the countries above named. Mr. Salvin states (Ibis, 1866, p. 191) 

 that these birds were found in most of the elevated districts where pines 

 abound. He procured specimens in the Volcan de Fuego, in the hills above 

 the Plain of Salama, and near the mines of Alotepeque. 



Dendroica pinus, Baird. 



PINE-CREEPING WAEBLER. 



Sylvia pinus, Wils. Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 25, pi. xix, fig. 4. — Bon. ; Nutt. — Aud. Orn. 

 Biog. II, pi. cxi. Thryothorus 2nnus, Steph. Sylvkola 2nnus, Jaiiu. ; Rich. ; Bon. ; 

 Aud. Birds Am. II, pi. Ixxxii. — Jones, Nat. Bermuda, 1859, 59 (abundant in Oct.). 

 Rhimanphus pinus, Bon. Dendroica pinus, Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 277 ; Eev. 190'. 

 — Sclater, Catal. 1861, 31, no. 189. — Coues, Pr. A. jST. Sc. 1861, 220 (Labrador 

 coast). — Samuels, 229. — Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. 1867, 67 (Inagua). Sylvia vigoraii, 

 Aud. Orn. Biog. I, 1832, 153, pi. xxx. Virco vigorsii, Nutt. 



Sp. Char. Spring male. Upper parts nearly uniform and clear olive-green, the feath- 

 ers of the crown with rather darker shafts. Under parts generally, except the middle 

 of the belly behind, and under tail-coverts (which are white), bright gamboge-yellow, with 

 obsolete streaks of dusky on the sides of the breast and body. Sides of head and neck 

 olive-green like the back, with a broad superciliary stripe ; the eyelids and a spot beneath 

 the eye very obscurely yellow ; wings and tail brown ; the feathers edged with dirty 

 white, and two bands of the same across the coverts. Inner web of the first tail-feather 

 with nearly the terminal half, of the second with nearly the terminal third, dull incon- 

 spicuous white. Length, 5.50; wing, 3.00 ; tail, 2.40. (1,35G.) 



Spring female. Similar, but more grayish above, and almost grayish-white, with a tinge 

 of yellow beneath, instead of bright yellow. Young. Umber-brown above, and dingy 

 pale ashy beneath, with a slight yellowish tinge on the abdomen. Wing and tail much as 

 in the autumnal adult. 



Hab. Eastern Province of United States, north to Massachusetts ; winters in United 

 States. Not recorded in West Indies or Middle America (except Bahamas and Ber- 

 muda?). 



Autumnal males are much like spring individuals, but the yellow beneath 

 is softer and somewhat richer, and the olive above overlaid with a reddish- 

 umber tint. 



Habits. The Pine-creeping Warbler is found more or less abundantly 

 throughout the United States from the Atlantic to the Valley of the Missis- 



