233 
Sylvicolidve.—Warblers. 
27. Hdminthoplmga cclata, Say.—Orange-crowned Warbler. 
This Warbler is a common species in summer in Southern California, aucl indeed pos¬ 
sesses in the West an almost unrestricted range, reaching on the coast from Cape Saint 
Lucas to the Yukon in Alaska, and being distributed throughout the interior. In Colo¬ 
rado, and the interior generally, it is in summer a bird of the mountains, reaching some¬ 
times above the timber, and making its home in the scanty alpine growth of bushes 
about the lofty summits. 
It is found, too, on the mountains of California (var. lutescevs, Ridgway), but not at all 
exclusively. It was the only Warbler I found on the island of Santa Cruz, where it was 
quite numerous, and breeding in early June. The surface of this island, broken up and 
diversified by rocky ridges, is covered with a growth of chaparral, often very dense, 
and forms just the locality which this Warbler delights in. A female which I shot 
June 10 contained an egg which would have been ready for depositing in a few days. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
Date. 
Collector. 
17 
cT ad. 
9 ad. 
$ 
Santa Cruz Island, Cal. 
June 10 
H. W. Henshaw. 
18 
.do. 
June 10 
Do. 
277 
Fort Tejon, Cal... 
Aug. 2 
Do. 
508 
cT 
Near Mount. Whitney, Cal. 
Sept. 26 
Do. 
• 
28. Dendroica cestiva, (Gm.).—Yellow Warbler. 
A common species about Los Angeles in June. It breeds and is quite numerous 
through the northern half of the State, being confined entirely to the low districts. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
Date. 
Collector. 
352 
d jun. 
Fort Tejon, Cal. 
Aug. 10 
H. W. Henshaw. 
29. Dendroica auduboni, (Towns.).—Audubon’s Warbler. 
This Warbler does not appear to remain in the mountains of California during the 
summer, as it does in Colorado and Arizona, but repairs farther north to rear its young. 
It may yet remain to be detected in the high forests in the northern half of the State. 
In the neighborhood of Mount Whitney it was common in September, being then 
on its way south. The common Yellow-rump ( D . coronata) has not yet been found in 
California, though found at the Straits of Ituca in April by Dr. Cooper. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
Date. 
Collector. 
530 
d 
Head Tule River, California. 
Oct. 7 
H. W. Henshaw. 
539 
$ 
Near Mount Whitney, Cal. 
Oct. 9 
Do. 
557 
? 
Near Thunder Mountain, Cal. 
Oct. 10 
Do. 
30. Dendroica nigrescens, (Towns.).—Black-throated Gray Warbler. 
I found this species common in the mountains, near Fort Tejon, in early August, and 
think they find here in the pine region their summer haunts. After leaving the Coast 
range, the species was not seen again, not even in the pineries of the high mountains 
near Mount Whitney. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
Date. 
Collector. 
765 
9 pin. 
jun. 
d jun. 
d jun. 
cf jun. 
9 ad. 
9 
Tejon Mountains, Cal. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
2 
H. W. Henshaw. 
766 
.do... 
2 
Do. 
291 
.do. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
3 
Do. 
OQO 
.do. 
5 
Do. 
288 
.do. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
5 
Do. 
377 
.do. 
3 
Do. 
411 
.do. . . 
Aug. 
17 
Do. 
412 
2 
.do. 
Aug. 
19 
Do. 
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