CINCINNATI WAKBLER. 589 



232. Cistothorus palustris, Dury and Freeman, Obs., Journ. Gin. Soc. Nat. Hist., ii, 

 1879, 101. — Telmatodytes palustris, Langdon, Summer Birds, ib., iii, 1880, 222 

 (nesting). 



235. Eremophila alpestris. Mr. Chubb informs me that this species breeds in the 

 vicinity of Cleveland. 



238. GertMa varia, Audubofl, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 76. — MnMilta varia, Dury and Free- 



man, Obs., Journ. Cin. Soo. Nat. Hist., ii, 1879, 101. 



239. Parula americana, Dury and Freeman,- Obs., Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., ii, 1879, 



101. 

 241. Sylvia vermivora, Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 177. — Selmiiherus vermivorus, Dnry 

 and Freeman, Obs., Journ. Cin. Soo. Nat. Hist., ii, 1879, 101. 



Helminthophaga cincinnatiensis Langdon. 



Cincinnati "Warbler. 



Selmmfhophaga cincinnatiensis, Langdon, Journ. Cin. Soo. Nat. Hist., Iii, 1880, 119 ; Field 

 Notes, ib , 122 ; Bull. Nntt. Orn. Club., v, 1880, 208,— Ridgway, Ball. Nutt. Orn., 

 Club., V, 1880, 237 ; Nomenclature N. A. Birds, 1881, 85. 



This new species was discovered by Dr. Frank W. Langdon, with whose 

 name the readers of this report have become familiar in the preceding 

 papers. His original description was reprinted in the Bulletin, as above 

 cited, and is as follows : 



" Adult male ; spring plumage. Entire upper parts excepting forehead, clear, bright, 

 olive green, with a tinge of yellowish in certain lights, quills and retrices dark plum- 

 beous brown, their outer webs fringed with olive green like that of the back. Below, in- 

 cluding orissum, bright cadmium yellow, of nearly the same shade throughout. Fore- 

 head bright yellow, this coSor bounded anteriorly by very narrow black line from 

 lores, and behind gradually merging 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 appearance. A yellow area beneath 

 the eye separates the black of lores from that of auricnlars. 



" Greaterand lesser wing coverts tipped with greenish-yellow, forming two indistinct 

 wing-bars ; outerprimary edged with whitish. Inner webs of two outer tail feathers nar- 

 rowly margined with white near the tip. 



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

 which are bluish horn-color ; onlmen slightly deourved, with trace of a notch at tip. 

 Rictus with fairly developed bristles extending nearly or quite to nostrils, here differing 



from any other species of the geuns. Eyes, dark brown ; tarsi and toes, pale brownish ; 



claws, paler. Dimensions : Length, 4.75 ; wing, 2.50 ; tail, 1.85 ; culmen, .44, from 



nostrils, .34 ; tarsus, .70. 



" The discovery of additional specimens may modify the above description somewhat, 



for, as Dr. Cones suggests to me, the concealed black of vertex would aeem to indicate 



that this specimen had not quite attained its fall spring dress. 



" The species is described from a single specimen, taken by the writer at Madison vlUe, 



Hamilton County, Ohio, on May 1, 1880. It has been submitted to Dr. Elliott Cones for 



examination, and by him in company with Messrs. Bidgway and Henshaw, pronounced 



to be undoubtedly new. Its relations, according to Dr. Coues, are mainly with Selmin- 



