BIRDS — SYLVICOLIDAE — HELMINTH OPHAGA CELATA. 
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List of specimens. 
Sex and 
age. 
Locality. 
When collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Carlisle, Pa. 
do.... 
Washington, D. C. 
Racine, Wisconsin. 
Cairo, Illinois 
April 26, 1845 
May 3, 1843 . . 
Oct. 10, 1842 . 
Sept. 6, 1844 . 
Sept. 30, 1842 
May 6, 1845 .. 
Sept. 12, 1845 
S. P. Baird 
do... 
do... 
April 29, 1845 
W. Button .. 
R. Kennicott. 
do 
4. 60 
4. 66 
4. 58 
4. 83 
4. 50 
HELM1NTHOPHAGA CELATA, Baird. 
Orange-crowned Warbler. 
Sylvia celata, Sat, Long's Exped. R. Mts. I, 1823, 169.— Bonap. Am. Orn. I, 1825, 45 ; pi. v, f. 2.— Bon. Syn. 
1826, 38.— Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 413, (Dacnis. )— Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 449 ; pi. 178. 
Sylvicola celata, Rich. List, 1837. 
Vermivora celata, (Ja rdine,) Bonap. List, 1838. 
Helinuia celata, Aud. Syn. 1839, 69.— Ib. Birds Am. II, 1841, 100 ; pi. 112. 
Helmilheros celata, Bonap. Conspectus, 1850, 315. 
Sr. Ch. — Above olive green, rather brighter on the rump. Beneath entirely greenish yellow, except a little whitish about 
the anus ; the sides tinged witli olivaceous. A concealed patch of pale brownish orange on the crown, hidden by the olivaceous 
lips to the feathers. Eyelids and an obscure superciliary line yellowish, a dusky obscure streak through the eye. No whits 
spots on wings or tail of female, with little or none of the orange on the crown. Length, 4.70 ; wing, 2.25 ; tail, 2.00. 
Hab. — Mississippi river to the Pacific ; south to northern Mexico. 
In some specimens there is a. narrow margin of whitish along the inner webs of the tail 
feathers. Sometimes, too, (3993,) the outer primary is edged with white. Some specimens 
appear to be without the orange crown. Occasionally there is a faint trace of obsolete olivaceous 
streaks on the breast. 
An immature specimen (10159) from Fort Unipqua, referred to this species, is much duller 
in plumage, and shows a trace of two brownish bands on the wings. 
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