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found built in a small bush not more than a foot above the ground, and very loosely built of 
straws with but little soft lining. The eggs, laid in June, were white. The young resemble 
the parents, but want the gray on the head and neck, those parts being greenish above and 
pale yellow below. I believe the gray of the head and neck soon wears off in the adult, as 
they look faded and greenish after June. I have since found it common in August as far east 
as Fort Laramie, Nebraska Territory.—0. 
This bird is very abundant between the Cascade mountains and the Pacific coast. In habit 
it resembles others of the group, and is generally found among bushes and thickets. Dr. 
Townsend, who first described the species, named it in honor of William Frazer Tolmie, M. D., 
at that time surgeon to the honorable Hudson Bay Company, and now a chief factor in the 
same corporation. During my residence in Washington Territory, as a neighbor to Dr. Town¬ 
send, I was frequently under obligations to him for curious and rare specimens in different 
branches of natural history, for many professional favors, and for oft repeated kind hospitality, 
which was all the more agreeable because seasoned with the discourse of the highly educated 
intelligent gentleman—mine host. 
A specimen obtained by me at Fort Steilacoom had the bill dusky above, paler below ; legs 
pale flesh color inclined to dusky. In these characters they differ slightly from those recorded 
in the specific character given above, which are from specimens obtained by Dr. Cooper. 
These, as well as the other ground warblers, seem to be entirely insectivorous, all the stomachs 
which I have examined containing fragments of coleoptera and other insects. 
They are not a very shy species, but as they frequent thick brush and heavily leaved 
thickets, behind the foliage of Avhich they are so thoroughly secreted, it is frequently difficult 
to obtain them. —S. 
HELMINTHOPHAGA CELATA, Baird. 
Orange-crowned Warbler. 
Sylvia cdala, Sat, Long’s Esped. E. Mts. I, 1823, 1C9.— Bonap. Am. Orn. 1,1825, 45 ; pi. v, f. 2.— Bon. Syn, 1828, 
38.— Nuttall, Man. 1,1832,413, ( Dacnis .)—Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834,449 ; pi. 178. 
Sylvicola celata, Bich. List, 1837. 
Vermivora celata, (Jardine, ) Bonap. List, 1838. 
Helinaia celata, Aud. Syn. 1839, G9.— Ib. Birds Am. II, 1841,100 ; pi. 112. 
Ilelmitheros celata, Bonap. Conspectus, 1850, 315.— Baird, Gen. Rep,, p. 257. 
Sp. Ch.— Above olive green, rather brighter on the rump. Beneath entirely greenish yellow, except a little whitish about 
the anus; the sides tinged with olivaceous. A concealed patch of pale brownish orange on the crown, hidden by the 
olivaceous tips to the feathers. Eyelids and an obscure superciliary line yellowish, a dusky obscure streak through the eye. 
No white spotson wings or tail of female, with little or none of the orange on the crown. Length, 4.70 to 5 ; extent, 7 to 7.50; 
wing, 2. 25 ; tail, 2. 00. 
Hab. —Mississippi river to the Pacific; south to northern Mexico. 
The orange-crowned warbler is very abundant in the vicinity of Fort Steilacoom. One also 
obtained at Fort Dalles, O. T. 
Habits much like those of the ground warbler. They keep in shady places among thick 
brush, generally near water courses.—S. 
DENDROICA OCCIDENTALIS, Baird. 
Western Warbler. 
Sylvia occidentalis, Townsend, J. A. N. Sc. VII, n, 1837, 190.— Ib. Narrative, 1839, 340.— Audubon, Orn. Biog. V, 
1839,55; pi. 55. 
Sylvicola occidental^, Bonap. List, 1838.— Ib. Consp. 1850, 308.— Aud. Syn. 1839, 60.— Ib. Birds Am. 11,1841,60; 
pi. 93. 
