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WOOD WARBLERS. 



parts are margined with olive-green. Ad. 9 .—Similar, but wing-bars white, 

 and crown not so brijjlit. 



Ii'emarke. — The descriptions are from typical specimens of tlie puzzling 

 bird known as Jlfhuinthophila leucobronchialis. Between it and. //. ^>j«m« 

 there arc specimens showing every degree of inlergradation. Typical exam- 

 ples are comparatively rare, and the most conmion form has the breast heavily 

 washed with yellow, the back tinged with olive-green, and the white wing- 

 bars washed with yellow ; in other words, about intermediate between typ- 

 ical leucobronchialis and typical pinvs. 



This hybrid, color phase, or species — I do not presume to say what 

 it is, for I think some day we may understand its rehitio'^^hips more 

 >"ully — has been found in Louisiana, from Virij^inia northward to Con- 

 necticut, and as far west as Michigan. Its breeding range appar- 

 ently coincides with that of //, pinuH. Upward of one hundred speci- 

 mens, representing typical lencobronchialin and various phases of its 

 intergradation with jiinus are known, and in the Connecticut River 

 Valley the bird is stated to be more frequent than II, chrysoptera. 

 In general habits it resembles both pi?iHS and chrysoptera. Some in- 

 dividuals sing like the former, some like the latter, while others have 

 notes of their own. (See Fisher, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, p. 

 234; vi, 18H1, p. 245; Auk, ii, 1885, p. 378; Chapman, ibid., iv, 1887, 

 p. 348; ix, 1893, p. 302; Eames, ibid., v, 1888, p. 427; vi, 1889, p. 305; 

 Bishop, ibid., vi, 1889, p. 192 ; Sage, ibid., vi, 1889, p. 279 ; x, 1893, 

 p. 208.) 



Helminthophlla lawrencei (//('wV'/-). Lawuknck's Wauiu.cu.— 

 Ad. S . — Forehead and fore part of the crown yellow, rest of ll)e upper parts 

 bright olive-green; wing-lmre white; tail bluish gray, the three to four outer 

 feathers marked with white; a Mack patch on the check divided by a yellow 

 line from the black patch on the throat and ui>per breast; lower breast and 

 belly yellow, under tail-coverts white. Ad. 9 .—Forehead dingy yellow, 

 rest of the upper parts bright olive-green ; wing-bars white, tinged with yel- 

 low ; tail as in the S , black patches of the S replaced by dusky olive-green. 



Remarks. — This bird combines the characters of pi nun and chrysoptera ; 

 it has the black 'cheek-patches and breast-patch of the latter, but in other 

 respects resembles the former, and is doubtless a hybriil lietween the two. 

 Its history and a discussion of its relationships will be found under the refer- 

 ences given above. It is a much rarer bird than Brewster'.s Warbler, and 

 less than a dozen spechnens have been recorded. 



648* Helminthophila chrysoptera (Linti.). OoLDKN-wiNCEn 

 Waublkr. (Fig. DC).) Ad. S .—Crown bright yellow ; rest of the upper parts 

 bluish gray, sometimes washed with greenish ; a lart/e black patch about the 

 eye, separated from another on the throat by a white stripe; a white line over 

 the eye ; wmgs and tail bluish gray; tips of middle wing-coverts and outer 

 webs of greater ones bright yellow, forming a large yellow patch on the wing; 

 outer three tail-feathers with large white patches on their inner webs at the 





