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NUKTll AMEKICAN lUlJDS. 



.'). virginiae. Abovt* usU to tin* nmijt. Itciiratli wliitf. A patcli on tlir 

 jiiiriiliiiii, with tlic upper ami lower tail-e»»vei i.-, mHow. JInh. lloeky 

 Moiiiitaiii.'^ ul' I'liited States, west to Ea.<t IIuiul>oltlt .Moinitaiii>. 

 (». luciae. AI»oVe ash, heiieath eoiitiimoiis white. Ipper luil-eoverts 

 eliestiiut. /J>th. Coloratlo reirion of Middle I'roviiiee. 

 7. celata. Above eontiimous oHve-greeii, below coiUiuuoiis pale yel- 

 low. (( >ranire on erowii ill ^ only?) 



Aliove ashy-olive, beneath yellowish olivaeeons-white ; itnier 

 wel'S of tuil-teathers broadly edged with white. (Middle regions 



of North America; Mexico.) * . var. celatu 



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

 edges to inner webs oi' tail-feathers ob.-^olete. (Paeilic Province 

 of North Amerieu. ) ....... var. I n test- c it s 



Similar to var, cehita, but plumage darker and more dingy. No 

 white edgings to tail-leathers, and apj»ar»'ntly no ruhxis on the 

 crow 11 in either sex. (Georgia. Florida, I'tc.) . . var. nbsr ti m 

 d. No rutous on crown. 



•'*'. peregrina. Ab(n(M)live-green ; head and neck pure ash: beneath 

 continuous white, ll'ib. Easti-rn Province of North America north to 

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



Helminthophaga chrysoptera, ( abax. 



GOLDEN-WINGED WABBLEB. 



Mofacilht chriianpfiifi, Linn. S. Nat. I, 17<>H, :{:53. SffJvut chr. TiATii. — Wils. Am. Om. 

 II, jtl. XV. tig. 5. — Hon. .Siflciciihi chr. 1»on. lit lino in chr. All), liinls Am. II, i»l. 

 evii. Hrlmithrus chr. Bon. — ^ScLAThli, V. Z. 8. 1^5^), 143 (llogota). Jltliiiiiifhoph'nja 

 chnjsDpkra, C'ah. Mux. Hiin ; .b>urn. f. Oni. 1>"S»)0, ;}2>> <('osta liica). — IJAiiin, Birds 

 N. Am. 1858, 255; IJcv. 175. — Sclati.k iS: Salvin, Ibis, II, 1,*<(J0, 3'J7 (Choctun), 

 tiuatcmala). — Salvin, 1807, 135.^ — Duksskh, Il>is, 18(>.'>, 477 (San Antonio). — Law- 

 RKNCE, Ann. N. V. Lye. VII, IStJl, 293 (Panama). — GiNni.. C'al). .bmrn. 1801, 320 

 (Cuba, ran). .Mufacilld Jiaci/run.s, Gmklis. Siilciti Jl<ti'ijrons, Lath. 



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



wings yelh^w. A l)road streak from the l>ill 



through and behind the eye, with the chin, 



throat, and fore})art of the brea-^t, black. The 



external i'iV^i* 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 oi 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. 



Length about ."> inches ; wing. 2.(5') ; tail, 2.25. 



IIab. Eastern Province of United Slates, San 



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



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



Habits. So lar as our present knowledge of this Warhler extends, it is 

 nowhere a comniou sj^>ecies, and is distributed over a compamtively small 



hfelminthophas^a relnta. 





