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being white instead of yellowish. More rarely there is very little of 

 yellow tinge on under parts or of olive-green on upper parts, the 

 coloration being olive-grayish above and dull grayish white, obsoletely 

 streaked with pale gray anteriorly, below.] 



Alaska (except coast district from Kadiak eastward and southward) 

 and throughout Rocky Mountain district of British America and 

 United States, breeding southward to Manitoba and high mountains 

 of New Mexico; during migration, southward to eastern and central 

 Mexico (as far as States of Vera Cruz, San Luis Potosi, Guanajuato, 

 etc.), and eastward over Mississippi Valley and Gulf States to South 

 Carolina, Georgia, and Florida; occasional during migration in New 

 England and Middle Atlantic States (numerous records), and in south- 

 ern California (Los Angeles County, September and October). 



Sylvia celata Say, Long's Exped. Rocky Mts., i, 1823, 169 (Council Bluffs, Iowa). — 

 Bonaparte, Amer. Orn., i, 1825, 45, pi. 5, fig. 2; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 

 1826, 88.— NuTTALL, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 413.— Audubon, 

 Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 449, pi. 178.— Peabody, Eep. Orn. Mass., 1839, >,13 

 (Massaciiusetts). — Townsend, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 1839, 153, 

 part (Columbia R. ). 



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



Vermivora celata Jardine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., iii, 1832, 332. — Bonaparte, 

 Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 21. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 2d ed., 

 i, 1840,473.— Hoy, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, 1853, 312 (Wisconsin). 



Helinaia celata Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 69; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 100, pi. 

 112.— Pratten, Trans. Ills. Agric. Soc, i, 1855, 602 (Illinois). 



M\niotilta'\ celata Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 



\_MniotiUa\ celata Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 239, no. 3457. 



[Helmitheros] cefato Bonaparte, Consp, Av., i, 1850, 315. 



Helmitheros celatus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 212 (Orizaba, Vera 

 Cruz). 



Helminthophaga celata Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 257, part; 

 Rep. IT. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 10 (Brownsville, Texas; 

 Tamaulipas); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 184, part; Review Am. Birds, 

 1865, 163, 176, part (Fort Yukon; Fort Resolution; Fort Simpson; Georgia, 

 etc. ).— Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 29 (Orizaba).— Blakiston, Ibis, 

 1862, 4 (Saskatchewan) ; v, 1863, 62 (interior British North America).— Allen, 

 Proc. Essex Inst., iv, 1864, 60 (Massachusetts); Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 

 1871, 268 (e. Florida, winter); iii, 1872, 175 (Kansas; Utah) .— Coues, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H., xii, 1868, 108 (South Carolina) ; Check List, 1873, no. 68; 

 2d ed. 1882, no. 107.— Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 546 

 (Orizaba, winter).— Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., i, 1869, 

 278 (Fort Yukon, etc., Alaska, breeding) .—Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 83, part.— 

 Maynard, Birds Florida, 1873, 61.— Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vii, 1875,32 

 (WahsatchMts., Utah, breeding) ; Ibis, 1876, 170; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 

 86.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, i, 1876, 94 (Concord, Massachusetts, Oct. 

 2).— Purdie, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, 1877, 21 (Cranston, Rhode Island, 

 Dec.).— Mearns, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 46 (West Point, New York, 

 May 13).— Brown, Bull Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 173 (Coosada, Alabama, 

 Feb. 12 and Apr. 15).— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xix, 1878, 302 

 (Hollis, New Hampshire; Concord, Massachusetts, Oct. 2, 1876).— Bicknell, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 61 (Riverdale, New York, Oct.).— Trottee, 



