nELMlNTIIOPIIAGA CELATA— O. LUTRSCENS. 42<) 



List of specimens. 



S50,juv.; East niimboldt Mountains, Nevada, August 5, 18G8. 5— 7^(?)_2. 

 Upper iiiaudilde, plutnbeous-black, the toinium .yellowish white; lower niandil)le, dull 

 light-ashy, darker teruiiiially ; tarsi and toes, yellowish plumbeous, the latter palo 

 yellow beneath. 



1040, S ad.; Salt Lake City, Utah (City Creek Canon), May 24, 1800. 5—8. I'.ill, 

 lilaceous-blue, the upi)er mandible nearly blaek; iris, brown ; tarsi, hepatic-slate; toes, 

 yellowish. 



1041, 9 ad. (mate of preceding); 4^_7J. Same remarks. 

 lO.W, 9 ad.; Salt Lake City, J\Iay 20. 5— 7J. Same remarks. 

 1192,<frtrf.; Salt Lake City, June 21. 4|4— 7f. Same remarks. 



1188, nest and eggs (4); Salt Lake City, June 19. Nest imbedded in the layer of 

 dead leaves covering the ground under oak thicket, on side of ravine; female shot. 



HeLMINTIIOPHAGA CELATA. 

 Oraiigc-crowncd IVai-blcr. 



a. celata — Common Orange-crowned Warhler. 



Sylvia celata, Say, Long's Exped., I, 1823, 1G9. 



Hehmnthophaga celata (part), Baiud, B. N. Am., 1858, 257; Cat., 1859, No. 184 



(part); Review, 18G5, 170.— Coopkr, Orn. Cal., 83.— Coues, Key, 1872, 95; 



Check List, 1873, No. (J8 (part) ; I). N. W., 1874, 52.— B. B. & H., Uist. N. Am. 



B., I, 1874, 202, pi. XI, fig. 5.— Henshaw, 1875, 191. 



/?. lutcscens. — Yellow Orange-crowned Warhler. 



Ilelminthophaga celata var. lutcscens, Ridgway, Am. Jour. Sci. & Arts, Jan., 1872, 

 457; Am. Nat., Vll, Oct., 1873, p. — .— B. B. vSo R., Hist. N. Am. B., I, 1874, 

 204, pi, XI, tig. 4. 



Ilelminthophaga celata. b. lutcscens, CoUES, B. N.W., 1874, 52. 

 Ilelminthophaga celata (part), Baibd, B. N. Am., and Rev.— CoUES, Key, and 

 Check List.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 83. 



The Orange-crowned Warbler was most frequently met with during its 

 autumnal migration, at which time it was the most abundant of all the spe- 

 cies of the fomily ; it was also not uncommon in summer in the high aspen 

 woods of the loftier mountains. In the fall, the thickets and lower shrub- 

 bery along the streams, particularly those of the lower canons, would fairly 

 swarm with them during the early portion of the mornings, as they busily 



