466 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



HELMINTHOPHILA CELATA LUTESCENS Ridgway. 

 LUTESCENT WARBIER. 



Similar to H. o. celata, but muuh more brightly colored, the upper 

 parts bright olive-green, the under parts distinctly yellow (bright 

 olive-yellow to nearly gamboge); young very different from that of 

 JI. c. celata. 



Young In first plumage. — Above plain olive-green, the middle and 

 greater wing-coverts more or less distinctly tipped with paler or with 

 buffy; under parts buffy olive-yellow or straw yellow, more or less 

 strongly shaded with olive on chest, sides, and flanks (often on throat 

 also). 



Adult 77zafe.— Length (skins), 106.7-113 (109.7); wing, 58.2-61.2 

 (59.9); tail, ■±1.7-4:9 (47); exposed culmen, 9.4-9.6 (9.4); tarsus, 17.5- 

 18.3 (18).^ 



Adult femuIe.—ljeTigth (skins), 101.6-111.8 (108.4); wing, 56.9-61 

 (58.9); tail, 45.7-47 (46.2); exposed culmen, 9.9-10.2 (10); tarsus, 

 17.3-17.8 (17.5).^ 



Breeding in Pacific coast district, from mountains of southern Cali- 

 fornia (Los Angeles Co.) to island of Kadiak and shores of Cook Inlet, 

 Alaska, and eastward to Ruby Mountains, Nevada; eastward and south- 

 ward during migration to Montana (Columbia Falls), Wyoming (Fort 

 Bridger), Colorado, Arizona, and Cape St. Lucas, and through western 

 Mexico to Guatemala (Chimay). 



Sylvia celata (not of Say, 1823) Townsend, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 1839, 

 153, part (Columbia R.). 



Sylvicola celata (not of Richardson, 1837) Finsoh, Abh. Nat.- Bremen, iii, 1872, 

 36 (Si tlia, Alaska). 



Vermivora celata (not of Bonaparte, 1838) Gambel, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, 

 1846, 155 (California); Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1847, 17 (California). 



Helinaia celata (not of Audubon) Heekmann, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, 1853, 

 263 (California, abundant). 



Helminthophaga celata Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 257, part (speci- 

 mens from Oregon and California); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 184, part; 

 Review Am. Birds, 1865, 176, part (San Jos6, Lower California).— Sclater, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.,-1858, 298 (LaParada, Oaxaca) ; 1859, 235 (Vancouver 

 I.), 373 (Oaxaca); 1862, 19 (La Parada).— Xantus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., xi, 1859, 191 (Fort Tejon, California).— Coopek and Suckley, Eep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 178 (Fort Steilacoom and Dalles, Ore- 

 gon).— Lord, Proc. Roy. Art. Inst. Woolw. , iv, 1864, 115 (British Columbia).— 

 Brown, Ibis, 1868, 420 (Vancouver I.).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 83, part- 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 116, part (Chimay, 

 Guatemala) . 



Helminthophaga celata . . . var. Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, pi. 11, fig. 4 (Cape St. Lucas). 



Hehninthophila celata Sharpe, Oat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 640, part (Van- 

 couver I.; San Francisco and Nicasio, California; Mazatlan and Presidio, 

 Sinaloa, and La Parada, Oaxaca; Chimay, Guatemala). 



' Six specimens, ^ xhree specimens. 



