A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 1 of 3Baird, Spencer Fullerton
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A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 1 of 3
Baird, Spencer Fullerton
Birds -- North America
Mr. Ridgway met with this Warbler in great abundance during its
autumnal migration among the shrubbery along the streams of the Sierra
Nevada, at all altitudes. In summer it was only seen among the high
aspen woods on the Wahsatch Mountains. Fully fledged young birds were
numerous in July and August. Their usual note was a sharp _chip_.
This bird was found breeding near Fort Resolution, on the Yukon, at
Fort Rae, and at Fort Anderson.
The notice of geographical distribution of the different races, at the
beginning of the article, will serve to show to what varieties the
preceding remarks severally belong.
Helminthophaga celata, var. lutescens, RIDGWAY.
PACIFIC ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER.
_Helminthophaga celata_, COOPER & SUCKLEY, P. R. R. XII, ii, 1859,
178.—LORD, Pr. R. Art. Inst. Woolwich, IV, 1864, 115.—BAIRD, Rev.
Am. Birds, I, 1865, 176 (in part).—COOPER, Orn. Cal. 1, 1870, 83.
_H. celata_, var. _lutescens_, RIDGWAY, Report U. S. Geol. Expl.
40th Par.
SP. CHAR. _Male._ Upper surface continuous bright olive-green. Whole
lower parts, including superciliary stripe and eyelids, bright yellow,
almost gamboge; abdomen somewhat whitish. Inner webs of tail-feathers
just perceptibly edged with white. Whole crown bright orange-rufous,
scarcely concealed. Wing, 2.40; tail, 1.90; bill, .40; tarsus, .67;
middle toe, .45. Wing-formula, 2, 3, 1, 4. _Female._ Similar, but
orange of crown almost obsolete. Wing, 2.30; tail, 1.90. _Young of the
year._ Similar to adult, but with a brownish tinge above; middle and
secondary coverts tipped with dull fulvous, furry, inconspicuous
bands. No trace of orange on the crown.
HAB. Pacific Province of North America, from Alaska to Cape St. Lucas.
Straggling eastward to about the 116th meridian. Not found in Mexico?
The differences between the Pacific coast specimens of the _H. celata_
and those from the interior regions—first pointed out in the Review of
American Birds—are very readily appreciable upon a comparison of
specimens. The present bird is a coast variety, entirely replacing the
true _celata_ (var. _celata_) in the region above indicated.
Helminthophaga peregrina, CABAN.
TENNESSEE WARBLER.
_Sylvia peregrina_, WILS. Am. Orn. IV, 1811, 83, pl. xxv, fig. 2.—AUD.
Orn. Biog. II, pl. cliv. _Sylvicola per._ RICH. _Vermivora per._
BON. _Helinaia per._ AUD. Birds Am. II, pl. cx. _Helmitherus per._
BON. _Helminthophaga per._ CAB. Mus. Hein.—IB. Jour. Orn. 1861, 85
(Costa Rica).—BAIRD, Birds N. Am. 1858, 258; Rev. 178.—SCLATER &
SALVIN, Ibis, 1860, 31 (Guatemala).—SCLATER, P. Z. S. 1859, 373
(Oaxaca); Catal. 1861, 29, no. 180.—LAWRENCE, Ann. N. Y. Lyc.
1861, 322 (Panama).—GUNDLACH, Cab. Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba, very
rare). _Sylvia tennessæi_, VIEILLOT, Encycl. Méth. II, 1823, 452.
_? Sylvia missuriensis_, MAX. Cab. Jour. VI, 1858, 117.
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