52 HELMINTHOPHAGA CELATA, ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER. 



> This species, of which until lately only two specimens were known, 

 from the localities above quoted, has more recently been found to be 

 abundant in Nevada and Utah, by Mr. Eidgway, and the present year 

 has been ascertained to breed in Eastern Colorado, by Mr. Aiken, who 

 found a nest with eggs. It was concealed on the ground, in a depression, 

 like that of H. ruficapilla. Mr. Eidgway's nest, taken June 9, 1867, at 

 Salt Lake City, is loosely composed of coarse fibrous and fine grassy 

 material ; it contains three eggs, which measure 0.68 in length by 0.48 

 in breadth, and are white, thickly sprinkled all over with purplish- brown 

 and lavender spots, tending to wreathe around the large end. 



All the species of Helminthophaga occur within our limits, excepting 

 two — H. baohmani, an extremely rare species, from the South Atlantic 

 States and Cuba, and H. lucice. recently discovered in Arizona. 



-j ;^ ^ HELMINTHOPHAGA CELATA, (Say) Bd. rr"T^ 

 Orange-crownefl Warbler. 



a. celata. 



Sylvia celata, Say, Long's Exped. i, 1823, 169.— Bp., Am. Om. i, 1825, 45, pi. 5, fig. 2; 

 Syn. 1828, 38.— Ntrrr., Man. i, 1832, 413.— AuJO."", Oru. Biog. ii, 1834, 449, pi. 178. 



Si/lvieola celata, Rich., List, 1837. 



Vcnuivora celata, Bp., List, 1838, 21. 



Hdinaia celata, AUD., B. Am. ii, 1841, 100, pi. 112. 



Hchnithcnis celata, Bp., Consp. Av. i, 1850, 315. 



Mdmiiithophaga celata, Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 257; Kev. 1864, 176.— SCL., P. Z. 8. 1858, 298 r 

 (Oaxaca) ; 1859, 373 ; 1862, 19 (La Parada).— Hberm., P. R. R. Rep. 1859, x, l i 

 part vi, 40.— Coop. & Suck., N. H. Wash. Ter. 1859, 178.— Hayd., Rop. 1862, 

 160.— ScL., P. Z. S. 1862, 19 (Parada, Mex.).— Lord, Pr. Roy. Art. Inst, iv, 1864, 

 115.— CO0ES, Pr. Pliila. Acad. 1866, 68.— Allex, Pr. E.ss. Inst. It, 1864, 60 

 (Massachusetts). — Lawe., Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. viii, 1866, 284 (New- 

 York).— CouBS, Pr. Boat. Soc. 1868, 107 (South Carolina).— Coues, Pr. Ess. Inst. 

 V, 1868, 271 (New England).— Dall & Bann., Jt. Chie. Acad, i, 18S9, 278.— 

 Coop., Pr. Cal. Acad. 1370, 75.— Coop., B. Cal. 83.— Allen, Bull. M. C. Z. ii, 

 ' 1871, 268 (Florida).— Allen, Bull. M. C. Z. iii, 1872, 175 (Utah; Kansas).— 

 Mayn., B. Fla. 1872, 62.— Aiken, Pr. Bost. Soc. 1872, 196 (Colorado).— Stev., 

 U. S. Geol. Surv. Ter. 1870, 463.— CoUES, Key, 1872, 95. 



b. lutescens. 

 Helminthophaga celata Tar. lutescens, Ridgw., Am. Jouru. Sci. 1872, 457. 



Hab. — North America, at large, but chiefly the Middle and Western Provinces. North 

 to the Yukon and McKenzie River regions. South to Oaxaca, Mex. Var. lutescens from 

 the Paciiio region. (Some of the above quotations.belong here.) 



!N'ot obtained by Captain Raynolds' Expedition. 



Lieutenant Warren's Expedition. — 4672, Bon Homme Island ; 4673, mouth of Big Sionx 

 River. 



Later Expeditions. — 60698-9, Fort Bridger and Little Sandy; 60975, Green River. 



A var. obscurus, without the concealed orange crown-patch, from the South Atlantic 

 States, lately described by Mr. Ridgway, seems scarcely entitled to recognition by name 



This species, first discovered in the Missouri region, was soon after- 

 ward noted by Nuttall from Florida, and Audubon subsequently ascribed 

 to it an extensive Eastern range. He says it is seen "in the Southern 

 States, where it passes the winter, and while crossing the Union in early 

 spring on its Way to those northeastern districts, where it breeds. It 

 leaves Louisiana, the Floridas and Carolinas, from the beginning to the 

 end of April; is seen in the Middle States about the 10th of May, and 

 reaches the State of Maine and the British Provinces by the end of that 

 month. On its return, besides settling in the Southern States, it spreads 

 over the provinces of Mexico, from whence individuals in spring migrate 

 by the vast prairies, and along the shores of the western parts of the 

 Union, entering Canada g^.t^|^^^1^yg,yl^^Jrst days of June # * * 



