BELMINTHOPnAGA CELATA— H. LUTESCENS. 429 



List of specimens. 



S5Q, juv.; East Iliimboldt Moiintaius, Nevada, August 5, 1SG8. 5— 7i— (?)— 2. 

 TJpi)er luandible, plumbeous-black, the tomium yellowishwbite; lower mandible, dull 

 liglitasby, darker terminally ; tarsi and toes, yellowish-plumbeous, the latter pale 

 yellow beue.atb. 



1040, S ad.,- Salt Lake City, Utah (City Creek Canon), May 24, 18G9. 5—8. Bill, 

 lilaceous-blue, tbe upper mandible nearly black; iris, brown ; tarsi, hepatic-slate; toes, 

 yellowish. 



1041, 9 a(Z. (mate of preceding); 4^ — 7^. Same remarks. 

 1053, 9 «rf.; Salt Lake City, May 20. 5 — 7^. Same remarks. 

 1192, i ad.; Salt Lake City, Juue 21. 4i§ — 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. 



HeLMINTHOPIIAGA CELATA. 

 Oraiigc-crowitctl IVai-blcr. 



a. celata — Coiiiiiioii Orange-crowned Warbler. 



Sylvia celata, Say, Long's Exped., I, 1823, 109. 



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



(part); Review, 18G5, 176.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 83.— Coues, Key, 1872, 95; 



Check List, 1873, No. 08 (part) ; B. N.W., 1874, 52.— B. B. & E., Hist. N. Am. 



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



/?. lutescens. — Yellow Orai/ge-crowned Warbler. 



HelminthopJiaffa celata var. lutescens, Eidgway, Am. Jour. Sci. & Arts, Jan., 1872, 



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



204, pi, XI, tig. 4. 



Helminthophaga celata. h. lutescens, Coues, B. N.W., 1874, 52. 



Helminthophaga celata (part), Baird, B. N. Am., and Eev. — Coues, Key, and 

 Check List. — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 83. 



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

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

 cies of the family ; it was also not uncommon in summer in the high asjien 

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

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

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



