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Helminthophaga ruficapilla (not Sylvia ruficapilla Wilson) Baird, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 923 (FortTejon, California); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, 

 no. 183, part; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 175, part. — Xantus, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1859, 141 (Fort Tejon).— (?) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1858, 298 (La Parada, Oaxaca); 1859, 373 (Oaxaca); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1862, 

 29.— (?) Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 477 (San Antonio, Texas).— Cooper, Orn Cal., 

 1870, 82.— Ajllen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 175, part (Utah).— 

 CouES, Check List, 1873, no. 67, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 106, part; Birds N.W., 

 1874, 50, part; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 224, part.— Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., 

 V, 1873, 177 (Colorado; Utah; Nevada); vii, 1875, 21 (e. Humboldt Mts.] 

 Nevada); Ibis, 1876, 170, part; Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 427 (East Hum- 

 boldt Mts., Sept.); Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 65 (Calaveras Co., Cali- 

 fornia, breeding); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 85 part. — Baird, Brewer, 

 and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 191, part, pi. 11, fig. 8. — Henshaw 

 Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 41; Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875^ 

 188 (Camp Crittenden, Arizona, Aug. 27 to Sept. 1) . — Nelson, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H., xvii, 1875, 439 (California).— (?) Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., no. 4, 1876, 15 (Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca, Dec, Jan.). — Beldjng, Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 404 (Calaveras Co., California, breeding). — Salvin 

 and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 115, part. 

 [Helminihophaga] ruficapilla Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 95, part. — Sclater 



and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 8, part. 

 II[elminthophaga'] ruficapilla Ridgway, Ibis, 1876, 168, part. 

 HelminthophUa ruficapilla Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 242, 640, part 



(Presidio, near Mazatlan; Ciudad Durango). 

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



Birds, i, 1874, pi. 11, fig. 8 (California). 

 [Helminthophaga ruficapilla.'] var. gutturalis Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and 

 Ridgway's Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 191, in text (East Humboldt Mts., 

 Nevada; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 HelminthophUa ruficapilla gutturalis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, Sept. 2, 

 1885, 352.— American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 645a.— 

 TowNSEND, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 223 (Baird and Castle Lake, 

 n. Calif6rnia, breeding).— Lloyd, Auk, iv, 1887, 295 (Tom Green and Concho 

 counties, w. Texas, migr.).— Scott, Auk, v, 1888, 33 (Cataliua Mts., Arizona, 

 Sept.).— Merrill, Auk, v, 1888, 360 (Fort Klamath, e. Oregon, breeding).- 

 Attwater, Auk, ix, 1892, 340 (San Antonio, Texas, migr.).— Rhoads, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1893, 54 (Nelson and Vernon, e. British Columbia). 

 HelminthophUa rubricapilla gutturalis Faxon, Auk, xiii, July, 1896, 264, in text.— 

 American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xiv, 1897, 131.— Mer- 

 rill, Auk, XV, 1898, 18 (Fort Sherman, Idaho, breeding).— Brooks, Auk, 

 xvii, 1900, 107 (Okanogan district, British Columbia). 



HELMINTHOPHILA VIRGINIiE (Baird). 

 VIRGINIA'S WARBLER. 



Adndt male in spring and swrnTOer.— Upper parts plain smoke gray, 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts bright yellowish olive-green or olive- 

 yellow; crown chestnut, the feathers tipped with gray (except in worn 

 plumage); a conspicuous white .orbital ring; sides of head rather paler 

 gray than upper parts, fading into grayish white on malar region and 

 lores; chest and (usually) throat clear lemon yellow (usually paler 



