200 NORTH AMERICAX -IJIRDS. 



lowtT tail-coverts, \vhi«h aiv Iciiion-vellow ; there is scjircelv a tini'e of yellow 

 on the ju^uluii), ami in>t a trace of chestnut on the crown. 



Haiuts. IJut little is a.s vet known in reijard to tlie liabits and distribution 

 of this soniewliat rare and recently discovered species. It was first met with 

 hy Dr. W. W. Anderson, at Fort l>uri,^wyn in New Mexico, and described 

 l)y Professor liaird in ISOO, in a note to the exj)lanation of Vol. II. of the 

 IJirds of North America. It was named in honor of Mrs. Virginia Ander- 

 son, tlie wife of its discoverer. An immature individual of this species was 

 obtained August ir>, 1804, by Dr. Coues, at Fort Whipple, near Prescott, in 

 the Territory of Arizona. As it beai-s a close resend dance to the H^hnin- 

 thitphaffii riificivpiUa, it is not improbable that its liabits bear a very close 

 resemblance to those of that species. 



In the sunnner of 18IJ1|, Mr. Kobert Kidg.vay was so fortunate as to meet 

 with the nest and e«r<xs of this bird near Salt Liike, Utah (Smith. Coll. 

 15,2ol>). This was June 9. The nest was embedded in the deixisits of 

 dead or decaying- leaves, on ground covered l)y dense oak-brush. Its rim 

 was just even with the surface. It was built on the side of a narrow ravine 

 at the bottom of which was a small sticam. The ne.st itself is two inches 

 in de])tli by three and a half in diamci r. It consists of a loose but intri- 

 cate interweaving of fine strips of the inner bark of the mountain mahog- 

 any, fine stems of grasses, roots, and mosses, and is lined with the same 

 with the addition of the fur and hair of the smaller animals. 



The eggs were four in number, and measure SA by .47 of an inch. Tliey 

 are of a rounded-ovoid shape, have a white ground with a slightly roseate 

 tinge, and are profusely spotted with numerous small blotches and dots of 

 purplish-brown and lilac, forming a crown arountl the larger end. 



This l>ird was first observed by Mr. Pidgwav among the cedars and pines 

 of the East Hund)oldt ^lountains, where in duly it was (piite common. It 

 was very abundant in the Wahsatch Mountains near Salt Lake ('ity, through- 

 out the sunnnor chiefly inhabiting the thickets of scrub-oak on the slopes of 

 the canons in which they nested, and where they were daily seen, but where, 

 owing to the thickness of the bushes, they were with ditticulty obtained. He 

 descriljcs its song as almost exactly like that of Dcndroica astiva. The 

 usual note is a soft i)if, (juite ditlereut from the sharp cliij) of //. nlata. 



Helminthophaga lucise, Cooper. 



LVCTS WAEBLEB. 



Ildmiufhophnffa Iwia', ^'norEU, Pr. Cal. Acad. July, 1861, 120 (Fort Moharc). — Baiud, 

 Kt'v. Am. IJ. 18t)4, 17». — Elliot, Illust. Binls N. Am. I, v. — Cooper, Oni. Tal. I, 

 1870, 84. 



Sp. Char. GoiutuI fonn and size that of //. rutirapilJa. Ahovo liirht-cinon'ous; lu'iieath 

 white, having a soiled, wry pale buti", almost white tinge on the th.'oat, breast, and Hanks. 



