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from the south rather late, and an average date for Lansing would be 
about May 10. Mr. Swales, however, states that it arrives in the neighbor- 
hood of Detroit from April 26 to May 3, remaining through the middle 
of May; and that it returns again in early September, remaining through 
the month. Specimens were killed on Spectacle Reef Light, northern 
Lake Huron, May 10 and 11, 1888, and September 26, 1886, September 
24, 1889, and September 21, 1890. In the southern part of the state 
it not infrequently lingers until the first week in October, being thus one 
of the latest of our migrants to move south. 
The song in Manitoba, is described by Seton Thompson as a warble 
‘“‘something like that of the Summer Warbler, and may be rendered, ‘toit 
toit toit toit chip-it-e-ip-it-e ipitiipitipitipiti,’ the last part being a con- 
tinuous twitter.” 
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION. 
Adult male: Crown with a chestnut patch, often more or less hidden; rest of the head 
and neck above, bluish-ash; back, rump and upper tail-coverts olive-green, the wings 
and tail dusky, edged with olive-green; entire under parts, including under tail-coverts, 
bright golden yellow, sometimes washed with olive on the sides of the breast and belly; 
a white ring around the eye; tail-feathers sometimes narrowly edged on inner webs with 
whitish, but without white patches. Female similar, but somewhat duller, the chestnut 
crown patch often nearly invisible. In autumn the ash of the upper parts is browner, 
the yellow below is duller, and the eye-ring is buffy instead of white. 
Length 4.20 to 5 inches; wing 2.25 to 2.45; tail 1.80 to 1.90. Female slightly smaller. 
267. Orange-crowned Warbler. Vermivora celata celata (Say). (646) 
Synonyms: Orange-crown.—Sylvia celatus, Say, 1823, Bonap., Nutt., Aud.—Helmin- 
thophaga celata, Baird, 1858.—Helminthophila celata, Ridgw., 1882, and most subsequent 
authors. : 
Very similar to the Nashville Warbler, but more greenish-yellow below; 
the crown patch orange or reddish-yellow instead of chestnut. 
Distribution.—Eastern North America, breeding as far northward as 
the Yukon and Mackenzie River districts and southward through the 
Rocky Mountains, and wintering in the South Atlantic and Gulf States 
and Mexico. 
The Orange-crown probably is the least common of its genus found in 
the state. In fact it should not be spoken of as common at all, being a 
decidedly rare bird. Presumably it is a migrant only, arriving from the 
south at about the same time as the Nashville and departing also at about 
the same time. This species was not mentioned by Dr. Sager in 1839, 
or by Cabot in 1850. Boies included it in his list of 1875, Covert in his 
lists of 1878 and 1881, and Dr. Atkins took three specimens at Locke, 
Ingham county, between September 11 and October 1, 1880. Dr. Gibbs 
never met with a specimen alive near Kalamazoo, but states that Mr. 
F. H. Chapin secured one in that county. Covert took one at Ann Arbor 
April 23, 1879 and another on May 7 the same year. Norman A. Wood 
has a specimen taken at Ann Arbor, and another collected on Charity 
Island, Saginaw Bay, September 29, 1910. Swales and Taverner took 
a specimen in St. Clair county September 25, 1904, and J. Claire Wood 
took a single specimen in Wayne county May 9, 1906, and three more 
May 16, 1909. There are four records of the Orange-crowned Warbler 
for Spectacle Reef Light, Lake Huron, viz., May 24 and 25, 1894,"August 
30, 1894, and September 20, 1887. 
