SYLVICOLID.E — THE WAKULERS. I87 



Species. 



Common Characters. Colors itlaiii, Abc)ve <^livaceous, beneath nearly white. 

 No spots or bands on w'uv^ or tail. 



H. vermivonu. Abovt- olive-green. Head yellowish, with a black stripe 

 above and one behind ea«'h eye. Tail rountled. Huh. Eiistern Province of 

 United States; south U) C<.)sta Uiea ; Cnba. {Ildinlthenis.') 

 H. sw^aunsoni Above <lull olive-green, tinged with brown. Stripes on 

 the head somewhat as in the hu^t, but re<idish-l"-own : the median light 

 stripe on the erown scarcely visible. Tail slightly forked. Hub. South 

 CaroUua and Georgia; Cuba (very rare). (^Iltliitnia.) 



Helmitherus vermivorus, Bonap. 



WOBM-EATIHO SWAMP WABBLEB. 



Motacilla vcrmivora, CiMKL. Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 9.')1. i Sijlvia vci'iaivont, Lath. Ind. Om. 

 II, 1790, 499. — WiLs. Ill, pi. xxiv, fig. 4. — Ari». Orn. liiog. I, jd. xxxiv. Sylvkolu 

 vennii'oru, Kicu. Uclintiia cennivnrd, Ai i». Birds Am. 11, j>l. i;v. — Lembkye, Av. Cuba, 

 1850, 35, pi. vi, tig. 4. Ilehnithtrus ortnimras, IloN. ; <'ai!. ; Baikd, Uirds N. Am. 

 1858, 252; Ktv. 179. — Sclatkk, P. Z. -S. l.s:>i», :i(;:} (Xaiapa). — lu. Catal. 1861, 28, 

 no. 175. — ScLATKU & Salvin, n»is, I, 1859, 11 ((iuatfiiiala) ; I'ab. Jom*. 1860, 329 

 (Costa Riia) ; lb. 1856 (CiibaK — GrNDLAcii, Cab. Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba; somewhat 

 rare). Vcrmivora pcnnsylvanicd. Box., G(»ssK, B. Jamaica, 1847, 150. Helmitherus 

 viiyraturius, IIaf. J. de Phys. 88, 1819, 417. — Hartlaub ; Verrnicora fulvicapilla, 

 SwAiNSox, Birds, II, 1837, 245. 



Sp. Char. Bill nearly as long as the head : upper parts generally rather clear olive- 

 green. Head with ft)ur l)lack stripes and three brownish-yellow ones, namely, a black one 

 on each side of the crown and one from behind the eye (extending, in fact, a little anterior 

 to it), a broader median yellow one on the crown, and a superciliary from the bill. Under 

 parts pale brownish-yellow, tinged with butV across the breast and with olivaceous on the 

 sides Tail unspotted. Female nearly similar. Length, 5.50 ; wing, 3.00 ; tail, 2.35. 



In autnmnal specinnMis the light stripes on the head arc deeper buff than in spring. 



Hab. Eastern Province of United States (rather Southern) ; Southeastern Mexico; Gua- 

 temala; Cuba; Costa Rica; Vt:agua; Orizaba (winter, Sl-michrast) ; Yucatan (Lawrkxce). 



Habits. Much remains to be a.«?certaiiied in rej^^ard to the history, habits, and 

 distribution of this interesting species. So far as is now known it is hardly 

 anywhere very common during the breeding-season. Yet its abundance and 

 wide distribution as a migrant (hiring the winter months in various extended 

 locaUties appear to warrant the behef that it must l)e corresptuidingly abun- 

 dant in summer in k:>calities that have escaped our attention. Tt has been oc- 

 casionally met with in the Central and Southern States, as far west as Eastern 

 Mexico, and as far to the north as Southeastern Xew Y'ork. Specimens have 

 been procured from Cuba, Mexico, Centml America, and the northern portions 

 of South America. It is a regidar winter visitant of Jamaica, whither it goes 

 in the autumn in considerable numbers, and is verv widelv diffused. 



It reaches Pennsylvania about the middle of May, and leaves in Septem- 

 ber. Wilson noticed a pair feeding their young about the 25th of June. 



