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273. Audubon's Warbler. 



(Dendroica auduboni.) 



A very abundant summer resident all over the Province. 

 Specimens taken east of the Cascades appear to be of much 

 brighter plumage than those of the coast. 



274. Black-throated Gray Warbler. 



(Dendroica nigrescens.) 



Not common. I have only noticed it on the coast. Mr. 

 Brooks reports it from Chilli whack. 



275. Townsend's Warbler. 



(Dendroica townsendi.) 

 East and west of Cascades. Not common. 



276. Hermit Warbler. 



"Western Warbler." (Dendroica occidentalis.) 

 A summer resident, chiefly west of Cascades. 



277. Grinnell's Water-thrush. 



(Seiurus noveboracensis notabilis.) 

 Taken at Duck's by Clark P. Streator, August 7, 1889. 



278. Macgillivray's Warbler. 



(Geothlypis macgillivrayi.) 



A common summer resident throughout the greater por- 

 tion of the Province. Breeds on Vancouver Island. A 

 bright, active little bird, continually on the move, darting 

 here and there among the low shrubbery. 



NOTE. In an old work, published in 1839 by J. K. 

 Townsend, is a description of a new species of warbler, 

 which the author named " Tolmie's Warbler" (Sylvia 

 tolmcei\ in honour of Dr. Tolmie. then of Fort Vancouver. 

 As the late Dr. Tolmie was an old resident of this city, 

 where his family now reside, I was anxious to know to 

 what species the name had been applied, and why it had 

 been dropped, and wrote to Mr. Robert Ridgeway, Curator 

 of Department of Birds, Smithsonian Institution, for the 

 information, and received the following reply : 



"Sylvia tolmcei (Tolmie's Warbler) is a synonym of 

 Sylvia macgillivrayi (Macgillivray's Warbler) Geothlypis 

 macgillivrayi of recent authors. Both names were pub- 

 lished in i839, but tolmcei occurring on p. 343, while 



