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Langdon on a New Warbler. 

 Measurements of Seabright Specimens. 



Average, 



16.68 33.12 10.89 6.66 1.58 1.84 1.85 



1.85 



.64 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW WARBLER OF THE GENUS 

 HELMINTHOPHAGA* 



BY FRANK W. LANGDON. 



Helminthophaga cincinnatiensis, sp. nov. 

 Plate IV. 



Adult male ; spring plumage. Entire upper parts, excepting 

 forehead, clear, bright, olive green, with a tinge of yellowish in cer- 

 tain lights ; quills and rectrices dark plumbeous brown, their outer 

 webs fringed with olive green like that of the back. Below, includ- 

 ing crissum, bright cadmium yellow of nearly the same shade 

 throughout. Forehead, bright yellow, this color bounded anteriorly 

 by a very naiTow black line from lores, and behind gradually mer- 

 ging into the clear olive green of crown ; feathers of vertex with a 

 median concealed area of black. Lores velvety black ; auriculars 

 black, tipped with yellowish-green, giving them a mottled appear- 

 ance. A yellow area beneath the eye separates the black of lores 

 from that of auriculars. 



Greater and lesser wing coverts tipped with greenish-yellow, form- 

 ing two indistinct wing-bars ; outer primary edged with whitish. 

 Inner webs of two outer tail feathers narrowly margined with white 

 near the tip. 



Bill, in the flesh, black, excepting extreme tip, and base of lower 

 mandible, which are bluish horn-color ; culmen slightly decurved, 



* Keprinted, with permission, from the Journal of- the Cincinnati Society of 

 Natural History, July, 1880, pp. 119, 120. 



