BIKDS 01' NOETH AKD MIDDLE AMEEICA. 473 



Exped. W. lOOth Merid., 1875, 189 (White Mts., Arizona, Aug. 11; Tierra 

 Amarilla, New Mexico, Sept. 15; Navajo Creek, Colorado, Sept. 11). — Minot, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 226 (Manitou, Colorado; descr. song). 



[Helminthophaga] virginix Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 94. 



H[elminthophaga] virginix Bidgway, Ibis, 1876, 168 (diagnosis). 



\_MniotiUa\ virginix Giebel, Thesaurus Orn., ii, 1875, 189. 



Helmirdhophila virginix Bidgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, Jan., 1882, 54. — 

 Brewsteb, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 155 (Colorado Springs, Colorado; 

 remarks on plumage). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 247, 641. — 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 644. — Scott, Auk, 

 V, 1888, 33 (Catalina Mts., Arizona, above 3,500 ft.; breeding?). 



II[elminthopMla] virginix Coubs, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 294, — Bidgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 490. 



Helmintophila virginix Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 188. 



HELMINTHOPHILA CRISSALIS Salvin and Godman. 

 COLIMA WARBLEE. 



Similar to JT. virginice, but uppei* parts brown instead of gray, rump 

 " oleagineous " instead of olive-yellow, under tail-coverts oleagineous 

 chestnut instead of yellow, and under parts gray (without any yellow 

 on chest?). 



Adult female. — Above oleagineous brown, the lower back and rump 

 clear oleagineous; crown with a partly concealed patch of chestnut; 

 wings and tail fuscous; orbital ring and lores white; beneath dull ash 

 gray, the flanks more brownish, the middle of abdomen whitish, the 

 under tail-coverts clear oleagineous chestnut; under wing-coverts 

 white; bill and feet dusky hazel, the mandible paler basally; length, 

 127; wing, 63.5; tail, 53.6; bill, from point to rictus, 1-i; tarsus, 19. 

 (Free translation of original description.) 



Southwestern Mexico, in State of Colima (Sierra Nevada.) 



HelminlhophUa aisaalis Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 6th ser., i, July, 1889, 380 

 (Sierra Nevada, Colima, Mexico; cell. Salvin and Godman). 



HELMINTHOPHILA LUCI.ffi (Cooper). 

 LUCY'S WARBLEK. 



Adult male in spring and summer. — Above plain mouse gray; crown 

 chestnut, the feathers more or less extensively tipped (except in worn 

 plumage) with gray; upper tail-coverts bright chestnut; lores, orbital 

 ring, and entire under parts white, tinged with pale brownish gray lat- 

 erally, and also tinged more or less strongly with bufl:, especially on 

 chest; maxilla dusky horn color with paler tomia; mandible paler, 

 more grayish; iris brown; legs and feet dusky (in dried skins). 



Adult malein autumn a7idwintet].—'SAm\\&v to the spring and summer 

 plumage, but above tinged with brown, the chestnut crown-patch con- 

 cealed by very broad brownish gray tips to the feathers; under parts 

 pale brownish buff, becoming white, or nearly so, on abdomen. 



