178 BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
V. vicinior is a rare summer resident of San Diego and San Bernardino 
counties, California, but is not known to occur further northward on the 
Pacific coast. It is common in portions of Arizona and is also found in New 
Mexico and western Texas. I have only two specimens from western Mexico, 
both taken by Mr, Frazar at Guaymas in January, 1887... 
Mniotilta varia (Linv.). 
BLuack AND WHITE WARBLER. 
Mr. Frazar’s collection contains a female Black and White Warbler, taken 
at Triunfo on December 20, 1887. This is the first known instance of the 
occurrence of the species in Lower California, and for the Pacific Coast dis- 
trict north of the Peninsula there are, I believe, but three records,! all of which 
relate to California. These four birds were, no doubt, chance wanderers 
from the regular path of migration which, in the United States, lies well to 
the eastward of the Rocky Mountains. The Black and White Creeper is 
common in Central America during winter, and it also passes into South 
America as far as Bogota and Venezuela. 
Helminthophila celata (Say). 
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER. 
(?) Helminthophaga celata Barrp, Rey. Amer. Birds, pt. I. 1864, 1865, 176, 177 (San 
José ; Cape St. Lucas). 
Helminthophila celata BeLpine, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 535 (Cape Region). 
Ripeway, bid. (crit.). Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 
308 (Cape Region). 
According to Mr. Ridgway, an Orange-crowned Warbler (No. 86,272 U.S. 
Nat. Mus.) taken by Mr. Belding near La Paz in January, 1882, “appears 
to be referable to this form.” 
Mr. Frazar also obtained one (? No. 15,121, San José del Cabo, October 17, 
1887) which is nearly or quite typical celata, while several others in his series are 
variously intermediate between celata and lutescens. The occurrence of true 
celata in the Cape Region is in no way surprising, for it breeds in the interior 
of Oregon and British Columbia and thence northward to Alaska. No doubt 
some of the birds which visit these regions in summer regularly pass through 
1 Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., I. 1888, 48, “male in good plumage” 
found on South Farallone Island on May 28, 1887; Grinnell, Pub., Il. Pasadena 
Acad. Sci., 1898, 44, immature female taken near Pasadena, Los Angeles county, 
on October 2, 1895; Emerson, Condor, III. 1901, 145, “ male in fall plumage” 
obtained at Point Lobos, Monterey county on September 8, 1901. 
