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(near Boston, Massachusetts, 1 spec. May 15).— Rhoads, Auk, xvi, 1899, 312 



(Beaver, Laurel Ridge, etc., w. Pennsylvania).— Bangs, Proc. Biol. Sec. 



Wash., xiii, 1899, 105 (Chirua, prov. Santa Marta,, Colombia, Mar. 21).— Bbu- 



NEH, Proc. Nebr. Orn. Un., 2d an. meet., 1901, 57 (near Omaha, Nebraska, 



breeding). 

 H[elminthopMla] pinus CouBS, Key N,. Am. Birds, 2d ed. , 1884, 293. — Ridqway, 



Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 486. 

 Helminthopaga pinus Geegg, Proc. Elmira Acad. Sci., 1870 (p. 8 of reprint). 

 Helmwthophaga pina Coues, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1868, 271 (s. New England). 

 HelmintopMla pinus Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 183, pi. 11, fig. 2. 

 Sylvia solitai~ia Wilson, Am. Orn., ii, 1810, 109, pi. 15, fig. 4 (e. Pennsylvania; 



coll. Peale Mus. ). — Vieillot, Enc. M6th.,ii, 1823, 450. — Bonaparte, Journ. 



Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 189; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, .1826, 87.— Nuttall, 



Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 410.— Addubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 102, 



pi. 20. 

 Vermivora solitaria Swainson, Philos. Mag., new ser., i, 1827, 434 (Vera Cruz, 



Mexico). — Jaedine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., i, 1832, 256. — Bonaparte, Geog. 



and Comp. List, 1838, 21. — Woodhouse, Rep. Sitgreaves' Exped. Zuni and 



Colorado R., 1853, 72 (Indian Territory, common, breeding). 

 Sylvicola solitaria Richardson, Rep. Brit. Assoc, for 1836 (1837), 171. 

 Helinaia solitaria Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 69; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841,98, 



pL 111. 

 M[niotilta'] solitaria Geay, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 

 \_IIelmilheros'] soKJana Bonapaete, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 315. 

 Helmitheros solitarius Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 291 (Cordova, Vera 



Cruz). 

 H\elminthophaga'\ solitaria Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 20, footnote. 



HELMINTHOPHILA BACHMANI (Audubon). 

 BAGHHAN'S WARBLER. 



Admit male. — ^Forehead, orbital ring, malar region, chin (sometimes 

 upper throat also), breast, and abdomen yellow (gamboge); anterior 

 portion of crown black, the feathers (except sometimes the more 

 anterior ones) margined with gray; posterior portion of crown, occi- 

 put, and hindneck plain mouse gray; back, scapulars, and rump plain 

 olive-green, the last more yellowish; upper tail-coverts grayish olive- 

 green; anterior portion of lesser wing-covei't area clear gamboge 

 yellow, the posterior portion, together with middle coverts, plain olive- 

 green (concealed portion of feathers darker); greater coverts and ter- 

 tials grayish olive-green; secondaries and primaries duskj' grayish 

 edged with grayish olive-green, the longer primaries edged with pale 

 gray; tail dull gray, usually tinged with olive-green, the three to four 

 outer rectrices with a large subterminal patch of white on inner web; 

 auricular region olive-green, more or less tinged with gray posteriorly; 

 chest, together with more or less of throat, black, this sometimes 

 broken with yellow tips to feathers; flanks pale smoky grayish; longer 

 under tail-coverts white, the shorter ones pale j^ellow; maxilla brown- 

 ish black, the mandible slightly paler (decidedly so in winter); iris 

 brown; legs and feet dusky horn color (in dried skins); length (skins), 



