IIQ MNIOTILTIDJE. 



p. 175*; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 546'; Baird, Brew. & Ridgw. N. Am.B. 



i. p. 196'; Lawr. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 15"; Coues, B. Col. Vail. i. p. 224'; 



Sennett, Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 12'; Merrill, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. p. 123'°; Salv. 



Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 89". 

 Helmitheros rubricapillus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 291 '^ 

 Helminthophaga rubricapilla, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 363 . 



Supra flavido-olivacea, uropygio paulo flavescentiore ; capite cinereo, vertice castaneo plus minusve obtecto ; 

 Ions et oculorum ciliis albis ; subtus IsBte flava, ventre imo albicante ; rostro et pedibus eorneis. Long, 

 tota 4-5, alse 2-4, caudse 1-85, rostri a rictu 0-5, tarsi 0-65. (Desor. exempli ex Jalapa, Mexico. Mus. 

 nostr.) 



Hah. North America^ Eastern province especially ^ s, Texas » ^^, and Arizona 8.— Mexico, 

 Cordova {Salle ^2), Jalapa {de Oca ^% Orizaba {Sumichrast % La Parada {Boucard % 

 Oaxaca {Boucard % Santa Efigenia, Tehuantepec {Sumichrast''); Guatemala 

 {Constancia "). 



A well-known winter visitant to Southern Mexico, where it has been noticed by 

 many collectors. In Guatemala it never came under our own observation or that of 

 any of the bird-hunters employed by us; but as long ago as 1848, and again in 1851, 

 the late Don Jose Constancia sent specimens to Strickland from Guatemala, which are 

 still in his collection at Cambridge ^^ The bird has never been traced south of this 

 point, nor is there any record of its occurrence in the West Indies. 



Under the name of the Nashville Warbler, H. rujicaj^illa was long considered a rare 

 species in the States and confined in its range to the Eastern province. Within the 

 last few years, however, it has been traced throughout a much wider area, and found to 

 occur in many parts of the Middle province, at Fort Tejon in California, in Arizona, 

 and in the north, as a straggler, even in Greenland^. Its breeding-quarters, as far as at 

 present known, lie chiefly in the New-England States, especially Massachusetts ^ ; but 

 Dr. Coues thinks that it may be found nesting much further south, in the Alleghany 

 Mountains, in the Eocky Mountains, and in the sierras of California ^. 



4. Helminthophaga celata. 



Bylvia celata, Say in Long's Exp. i. p. 169*. 



Helmitheros celatus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 212'. 



Helminthophaga celata, Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 298 ', 1859, p. 373 ', 1862, p. 19 ' ; Baird, Rev. Am, 



B. i. p. 176"; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 546'; Sennett, Bull. U.S. Geol. 



Surv. iv. p. 12'; Merrill, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 123°; Coues, B. Col. Vail. i. p. 226". 

 Helminthophaga celata, var. celata, Baird, Brew. & Ridgw. N. Am. B. i. p. 202 ". 



Supra flavido-olivacea, uropygio paulo flavescentiore ; capite dorso concolori, vertice fulvo plus minusve celato ; 

 BupercUiis, loris et corpore subtus flavesoentibua ; rostro et pedibus eorneis. Long, tota 4'3, ate 2-3, 

 caudae 1-8, rostri a rictu 0-7, tarsi 0'8. (Descr. exempl. ex Chimuy, Vera Paz. Mus. nostr.) 



Eab. North America generally, but especially the Middle and Western provinces, 



