CINCINNATI WARBLER. 589 
232. Cistothorus palustris, Dury and Freeman, Obs., Journ. Cin. Sec. Nat. Hist., ii, 
1879, 101.—Telmatodytes palustris, Langdon, Summer Birds, ib., iii, 1880, 222 
(nesting). 
235. Hremophila alpestris. Mr. Chubb informs me that this species breeds in the 
| vicinity of Cleveland. 
238, Certhia varia, Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 76.—WMniotilta varia, Dury and Free- 
man, Obs., Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., ii, 1879, 101. 
239. Parula americana, Dury and Freeman, Obs., Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., ii, 1879, 
WMG 
241. Sylvia vermivora, Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 177.—Helmitherus vermivorus, Dury 
and Freeman, Obs., Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., ii, 1879, 101. 
H®&LMINTHOPHAGA CINCINNATIENSIS Langdon. 
Cincinnati Warbler. 
Helminthophaga cincinnatiensis, LANGDON, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., iii, 1880, 119; Field 
Notes, ib, 122; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club., v, 1880, 208—Ripe@way, Bull. Nutt. Orn., 
Club., v, 1880, 237; Nomenclature N. A. Birds, 1881, 85. 
This new species was discovered by Dr. Frank W. Langdon, with whose 
name the readers of this report have become familiar in the preceding 
papers. His original description was reprinted in the Bulletin, as above 
cited, and is as follows: | 
‘‘ Adult male; spring plumage. Entire upper paris excepting forehead, clear, bright, 
olive green, with a tinge of yellewish in certain lights, quijls and retrices dark plum- 
beous brown, their outer webs fringed with clive green like that of the back. Below, in- 
cluding crissum, bright cadmium yellow, of nearly the same shade throughout. Fore- 
head bright yellow, this color bounded anteriorly by very narrow black line from 
lores, and behind gradually merging into the clear olive-green of crown; feathers 
of vertex with a median concealed area of black. Lores velvety black ; auriculars black, 
tipped with yellowish-green, giving them a mottled appearance. A yellow area beneath 
the eye separates the black of lores from that of auriculars. 
‘‘Greaterand lesser wing coverts tipped with greenish-yellow, forming two indistinct 
wing-bars ; outer primary edged with whitish. Inner webs of two outer tail feathers nar- 
rowly margined with white near the tip. 
‘Bill, in the flesh, black, excepting oxtreme tip, and base of lower mandible, 
which are bluish horn-color; culmen slightly deeurved, with trace of a noteh at tip. 
Rictus with fairly developed brisiles extending nearly or quite to nostrils, here differing 
from any other species of the genus. Hyes, dark brown; tarsi and toes, pale brownish; 
claws, paler. Dimensions: Length, 4.75; wing, 2.50; tail, 1.85; culmen, .44, from 
nostrils, .34; tarsus, .70. 
“The discovery of additional specimens may modifythe above description somewhat, 
for, as Dr. Coues suggests to me, the conceaied black of vertex would seem to indicate 
that this specimen had not quite attained its full spring dress. 
“ The species is described from a single specimen, taken by the writer at Madisonvllle, 
Hamilton County, Ohio, on May 1, 1880. It has been submitted to Dr. Elliott Coues for 
examination, and by him in company with Messrs. Ridgway and Henshaw, pronounced 
to be undoubtedly new. Its relations, according to Dr. Coues, are mainly with Helmin- 
