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onous note, apparently delivered chiefly when the bird is at rest 

 on some lofty twig, and within convenient bearing of its mate 

 and only companion of the wilderness." 



Dr. George Suckley later confirmed these accounts of the in- 

 accessible nature of the bird's favorite haunts, he having found 

 it difficult to reach them with fine shot in the tops of the lofty 

 fir- trees, where they spent most of their time. All these reports 

 indicate that the anchorites were in their summer homes, and 

 inform us of at least one portion of the country in which they 

 do breed, though we must be slow to assert that they may not 

 also breed elsewhere under different conditions. My specimen, 

 as I distinctly remember, was hopping about in a bush close to 

 the ground, showing that the habits of the species are not the 

 same at all seasons of the year. 



Townscnd' Warbler 



Dendreecn townsendi 



SylYla townsendi, "#.", Towns. Jonrn. Phila. Acad. vii. 1837, 191 (Columbia River). 



Aud. OB. v. 1839, 36, pi. 393, f. 1. 

 RylvifOla townsendi, Bp. CGL. 1838, 23. Aud. S.yn. 1839, 59. Nutt. Man. i. 2d ed. 1840, 446. 



Aud. BA. ii. 1841, 59, pi. 92. Bp. CA. i. 1850, 308. 

 Dendroica townsendi, Sd. PZS. 1858, 295, 298; 1859, 374 (Oaxaca). B. B. & R. NAB.U874, 265, 



pi. 12, f. 5. Hensh. List B. Ariz. 1875, 156. Hensh. Zool. Ezpl. W. 100 Merid. 1876, 200. 

 Dendrceca townsendi, Coues, Ibis, 2d ser. i. 1865, 163 (Arizona). Scl. Ibis, i. 2*1 ser. 1865, 89 



(critical). Sund. Oefv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. iii. 1869, 610. 

 SylTia townsendii, Towns. Journ. Pbila. Acad. viii. 1839, 153. 

 Mniotilta townsendii, Gray, G. of B. i. 1848, 196. 

 Dendroica townsendii, Bd. BNA. 1858, 269. S. A S. Ibis, i. 1859, 11 (Guatemala). Coop. <& 



Suckl NHWT. 1860, 179. Bd. Rev. AB. 1865, 185. Turnb. B. E. Penn. 1869, 53, fig. ; 



Phila, ed. 42 (Pennsylvania). 

 Dendroeca townsendii, Coop. B. Cal. i. 1870, 91, fig. Ooues, Key, 1872, 98. Coop. Am. Nat. 



viii. 1874, 16. 



Sylvicola townsendii, Finteh, Abb. Nat. iii. 1872, 35 (Alaska). 



SylTia melanocausta, "Licht:\ "Brandt, Ic. Ined. Rosso-As. pi. i. f. 5, ? " (fide Finscb). 

 Townsend's Wood-Warbler, Townsend's Warbler, Authors. 



HAB. Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, from Alaska to Guatemala. (A 

 stray specimen taken near Philadelphia.) 



CH. SP. $ Supra flavo-viridis, nigro striata ; infra antice 

 flam, postice alba, jugulo pectore lateribusque nigro striatis, lateri- 

 bus capitis nigris flavo circumcinctis. 9 jugulo flavo intertincto 

 (et auricularibus viridibus fj. 



$ , adult : Entire upper parts yellowish-olive, rather darker than in virens, 

 e\ r erywhere streaked with black, especially on the crown, where the black 

 usually predominates; no bidden yellow on the crown. Sides of the head 

 bright yellow, enclosing a large black patch, constituted by the lores and or- 

 bital and auricular region, in which the yellow eyelids appear. Chin, throat, 

 breast, and sides part way, yellow, the jugulum black ; the sides of the 



