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Adult female.—hQngih (skins), 116.8-119.4 (118.1); wing, 56.6- 

 57.4(56.9); tail, 49-50 (49.5); exposed culmen, 10.4; tarsus, 18.6-18.8.' 



Santa Barbara Islands, California (San Clemente, Santa Cruz, Santa 

 Rosa, and Santa Catalina islands) ; occasional on mainland (Pasadena, 

 Los Angeles County, February and August). 



HelminthophUa celata Mescens (not of Ridgway) Blake, Auk, iv, 1887, 330 (Santa 

 Cruz I., California). — Beldinq, Land Birds Pacific Distr., 1890, 206, part 

 (Santa Cruz I., breeding). 



HelminthophUa celata sordida Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, no. 799, Sept. 

 9, 1890, 139 (San Clemente I., California; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.), 141 (Santa 

 Cruz and Santa Rosa islands). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 6466.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 607.— 

 Grinnell, Rep. Birds Santa Barbara Is., etc., 1897, 20 (San Clemente I.); 

 Pub., ii, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 44 (Pasadena, Los Angeles Co., California, 

 middle of July to Feb. 29); Auk, xv, 1898, 236 (Santa Catalina I., Dec). 



HELMINTHOPHILA RUBRICAPILLA RUBRICAPILLA (Wilson). 

 NASHVILIE WARBLER, 



AdvU male. — Pileum, hindneck, auricular region and sides of neck 

 plain gray; crown chestnut, the feathers tipped with gray; rest of 

 upper parts plain olive-green, brightest on rump and upper tail-coverts; 

 lores pale grayish or grayish white; a conspicuous white orbital ring; 

 malar region and under parts bright gamboge yellow, becoming white 

 on lower abdomen and anal region, tinged with olive on sides and flanks, 

 especially the latter; maxilla brownish black, mandible paler, more 

 grayish brown (in dried skins); iris brown; legs and feet horn color (in 

 dried skins); length (skins), 102.9-116.8 (106.9); wing, 56.4-61 (59.2); 

 tail, 41.7-45.7 (43.9); exposed culmen, 9.4-9.6 (9.5); tarsus, 16.8-17.3 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but duller in color, and 

 with little, if any, chestnut on crown; length (skins), 97.8-105.4 (102.9); 

 wing, 54.6-58.9 (56.6); tail, 40.1-43.7 (41.4); exposed culmen, 9.1-9.6 

 (9.4); tarsus, 16.S-17.8 (17.3).= 



YouiKj In fir »t autumn. — Much duller in color than adults; gray of 

 head and neck replaced by brownish gray or grayish brown; olive- 

 green of back duller; yellow of under parts duller, becoming brownish 

 white on chin and malar region. 



Eastern North America, breeding from Massachusetts, Connecticut, 

 northern New Jersey (Englewood), Pennsylvania (Dingmans Ferry, 

 Pike County), northern Illinois, Nebraska (Nebraska City), etc., north- 

 ward to Grand Menan and the Great Slave Lake district; southward in 

 migration over more southern United States (east of Rocky Moun- 

 tains) through eastern Mexico to Guatemala; accidental in southern 

 Greenland (two records: Gothaab, about 1835, and Fiskensesset, Aug. 

 31, 1840). 



> Two specimens, ^ r^^.^ specimen?, » gix specimeH9. 



