HELMINTHOPHILA. 4 g 7 



a'. Wings plain olive-green or gray. 



b\ Inner webs of three outer tail-feathers marked with a large white spot, 

 extending to the shaft. 

 Adult male : Forehead and lower parts yellow; a large patch of black 

 covering lower throat, chest, and upper breast; band across an- 

 terior part of crown black; rest of crown, with occiput, rather 

 dull ash-gray ; rest of upper parts, including ear-coverts, uniform 

 olive-green ; anterior half of lesser wing-covert region lemon-yel- 

 low ; quills dusky, edged with light ash-gray. Adult female : With- 

 out black on crown, and that of throat and chest replaced by dusky 

 olive; otherwise much like male. Length about 3.95-4.50, wing 

 2.40, tail 1.95. (Bill more acute and decurved at tip than in other 

 Helminthophilas.) Nest said to be placed " in low trees." Eggs (re- 

 puted) 4, about .74 X .60, dull white, heavily wreathed round 

 larger end with dark brown. (JZ. B. Bailey, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 viii. 1883, p. 38.) Hab. South Atlantic and Gulf States, from South' 

 Carolina (near Charleston) to Louisiana ; western Cuba in winter. 

 640. H. bachmani (Aud.). Bachman's Warbler. 

 V. Inner webs of outer tail-feathers without white spot (if with broad white 

 edging, this not extending nearly to shaft). 

 &. Upper tail-coverts olive-green ; wing 2.40, or more. 

 d 1 . Lores and part of ear-coverts black. 



Adult male : Above olive-green ; lower parts (including under 

 tail-coverts), suborbital spot, and forehead pure gamboge- 

 yellow ; length 4.75, wing 2.55, tail 2.00, exposed culmen 

 .55, tarsus .75. Sab. Vicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio. 

 — . H. cincinnatiensis (Langd.). Cincinnati Warbler. 1 

 d 2 . Lores and ear-coverts without any black. 



e\ Under tail-coverts and axillars pure white ; no rufous or chest- 

 nut on crown, in any stage ; first quill equal to or longer 

 than fourth (usually longer, and sometimes longest). 

 Adult male in spring : Top of head and hind-neck pure 

 ash-gray ; rest of upper parts plain olive-green ; quills 

 dusky, edged with light ash-gray; sides of head 

 whitish, relieved by a gray postocular streak, or 

 mostly ash-gray, relieved by a superciliary streak and 

 less distinct suborbital space of white; lower parts 

 white, the sides and flanks tinged with ash-gray 

 (most strongly on sides of breast). Adult female in 

 spring : Similar to male, but gray of head and neck 

 usually more or less tinged with olive-green, and whita 



1 Helminthophaga cincinnatiensis Langdon, Jour. Cine. Soo. Nat. Hist. July, 1880, 119, 120, pi. 4. 

 There are strong grounds for believing this bird to be a hybrid between B. pinus and Oporornis formoea. 

 See on this point Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v. 1880, p. 237.) 



