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Show 233 SYLVICOLUXE.- WARBLERS. , 27. Helmintkophaga celata, Say.- Orange- crowned Warbler. This Warbler is a common species in summer in Southern California, and indeed possesses 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 Colorado, and the interior generally, it is in summer a bird of the mountains, reaching sometimes 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. lutescens, Ridgway), but not at all exclusively. It was the only Warbler I found on the island of Santa Cruz, where it was Suite numerous, and breeding in early June. The surface of this island, broken up and i versified by rocky ridges, is covered with a growth of chaparral, often very dense, and forms just the locality which this W arbler delights in. A female which I shot June 10 contained an egg which would have been ready for depositing in a few days. No. J Sex. 17 Icf ad. 16 ! $ ad. 277 | 2 508 d Locality. Santa Ornz Inland, Oal do Fort Tejon, Cai Near Mount Whitney, Cal Date. Jane 10 Jane 10 Aug. 2 Sept 26 Collector. H- " W", TTenghaw, Do. Da Do. 2S. Dendroica mtiva, ( 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. Ho. Sex., 358 J inn. . - Locality. Fort Tejon. Cal Date. Aug. 10 Collector. H. " W. HflPflnftW, 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. Not Sex. 530 e 539 2 557 § Locality. Head Tale Biver, California.. Near Mount Whitney, Cal.... Near Thunder Mountain, Cal Date. Oct 7 Oct 9 Oct 10 Collector. H. W. Henahaw. Do. Da 30. Dendroica nigrescent, ( Towns.).- Black- throated Gray Warbler. I found this species common in the mountains, near Fort Tejon, in early August, and think they find nere 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. 765 766 291 377 411 9 pin. . Inn. tfjan. 3 jan. & 9 * a? d.' 9 Tejon Mountains, Cal. L. do ... do ... do ... do ... do ... do . . . d o . . . . . Ang. 2 Aug. 2 Aug. 3 Aug. 5 Aug. 5 Aug. 3 Aug. 17 Aug. 19 H. W. Henshaw. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Da Do. |