BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 559 



16; Camp Apache, Camp Crittenden, Bowie Agency, and White Mts., 

 Arizona, Aug.).— Anthony, Auk, iii, 1886, 170 (Washington Co., Oregon, 

 breeding); Zoe, iv, 1893, 244 (San Pedro Martir Mts., Lower California, 

 breeding in pine belt). — Ambeican Oknitholoqists' Union, Check List, 1886, 

 no. 665.— Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 223 (n. California; 

 descr. nest and eggs). — Scott, Auk, v, 1888, 35 (Catalina Mts., s. Arizona, 

 breeding). — Belding, Land Birds Pacific Distr., 1890, 212 (breeding in San 

 Bernardino Mts., California). — Nehkling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 

 225.— Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1893, 54 (Vancouver I.).— Gkin- 

 NELL (J.), Pub. ii, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 45 (Los Angeles Co., California, 

 summer resid. on mts. up to 6,000 ft.). 



D[endroica] nigrescens Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 507. 



Dendrceca nigrescens Sclatee, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 30 (Oaxaca). — CouES, Ibis, 

 1865, 163 (Arizona); Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xviii, 1866, 69 (Fort Whipple, 

 Arizona); Check List, 1873, no. 75; 2d ed., 1882, no. 116; Birds N. W., 1874, 

 55, 232; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 263.— Coopeb, Orn. Cal. 1870, 90.— Ridgway, 

 Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 433 (e. Humboldt and Ruby Mts., Nevada, and 

 Uintah Mts., Utah; breeding); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 105.— Salvin 

 and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 136. — Beewstee, Auk, ii, 

 1885, 197 (Santa Rita Mts., Arizona; descr. yoimg female). — Shaepe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 291, 646 (Puebla, Mazatlan, Presidio, etc., Mexico, 

 etc.). 



Dendroeca nigrescens Sundevall, Of v. k. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stockh., xxvi, 1870, 

 610 (monogr.) . 



[Dendrceca] nigrescens Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 98. — Sclatee and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 9. 



D[endroeca\ nigrescens CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 300. 



SyMcola tristis Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 2d ed., i, 1840, 472 (mouth 

 of Wilamette River, Oregon) . 



Sylvia haheii Gieaud, Sixteen Species Texas Birds, 1841, fol. 11, pi. 3, fig. 1 

 (=autumnal female; type now in coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Sylvicola nigricans (lapsus for vigrescens) Heney', Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, 

 1855, 309 (New Mexico). 



DENDROICA TOWNSENDI (Townsend). 

 TOWNSEND'S WARBLER. 



Adult male in s])rlng and summer. — Pileum, hindneck, loral and 

 auricular regions, cliin, throat, and upper chest uniform black; a broad 

 superciliary stripe, broad malar stripe (curving upward behind auric- 

 ular region, and confluent with posterior extremity of the superciliary 

 stripe), a suborbital spot, lower chest, and breast clear lemon yellow; 

 abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts white; sides and flanks heavily 

 streaked with black, the more anterior streaks confluent with the black 

 throat-patch at its latero-posterior angles; under tail-coverts with a 

 median streak of blackish; back, scapulars, rump, and shorter upper 

 tail-coverts yellowish olive-green, each feather with a central, more or 

 less wedge-shaped or sagittate spot of black, these markings more or 

 less concealed on rump; longer upper tail-coverts black centrally, 

 broadly margined with slate-gray ; wings and tail blackish with light- 



