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bands; sides of head black, with a supraloral and postocular streak of white; 

 breast, especially next the yellow patches, heavily spotted or blotched with black. 

 ?: Similar to the i, but much duller, less bluish above, the streaks on breast much 

 narrower. Autumnal and winter plumage (adult and young): Upper parts brown- 

 i.-h, aud white of lower parts obscured by a wash of the same; streaks on breast 

 indistinct or obsolete, and yellow patches much reduced in size. Young, first 

 plumage: No yellow, except sometimes on rump; whole plumage thickly streaked 

 above and below, with dusky and grayish white. 



11. D. dominica. Adult (sexes alike): Above bluish gray, the back without streaks; 

 superciliary stripe and sides of neck white, the former sometimes yellow ante- 

 riorly; lores and cheeks black, this extending downward to sides of throat in a 

 triangular patch; whole throat clear yellow; rest of lower parts white, the sides 

 streaked with black. Young: Similar, but upper parts tinged with brownish, white 

 of lower parts soiled with the same, yellow of throat duller, and markings of head 

 less sharply defined. 



12. D. vigorsii. Wing-bands dull gray or grayish white. : Above olive-green, the wings 

 and tail grayish; beneath yellow, the sides indistinctly streaked with olive; the 

 anal region and crissum (sometimns belly also) white. ?: Above dull olive-gray, 

 sometimes tinged with olive-green; beneath pale grayish, fading into white pos- 

 teriorly, the breast usually tinged with yellow. Young, first plumage: Nearly like 

 the adult ?, and wholly unstreaked. 



13. D. moutana. Similar to ptnus, but forehead, superciliary stripe, auriculars, and 

 anal region yellow, and breast streaked with dusky. 



14. D. discolor, i: Above olive-green, the back spotted with reddish chestnut; lower 

 parts rich gamboge- yellow, the sides broadly streaked with black; wings with only 

 one distinct band, this a pale yellow one across tips of middle coverts. ?: Similar 

 but somewhat duller. 



c. Wing without any distinct bands or other markings. 



15. D. palmarum. Above olive-brown, beneath yellowish. Adult with the crown 

 chestnut. 



a. palmarum. Yellow of lower parts confined chiefly to throat and crissum, 

 the belly whitish, or only slightly tinged with yellow; jugulum narrowly 

 streaked with dusky; back dull olive-brown. 



&. hypochrysea. Lower parts wholly yellow; sides of breast broadly streaked 

 with reddish chestnut; back greenish olive. 



16. D. kirtlandi. Adult (sexes alike): Above bluish gray, the crown streaked, and the 

 back spotted with black; lower parts pale sulphur-yellow, sides tinged with gray- 

 ish and streaked with black, the jugulum sometimes finely and sparsely dotted 

 with the same; side of head blackish, the eyelids white. 



Dendroica sestiva (Gmel.) 



YELLOW WARBLER. 



Popular synonyms. Summer Yellow-bird; Wild Canary; Yellow-poll Warbler. 



Motacitta (Estiva GMEL. S. N. i, 1788. 996. 



Sylvia cestira LATH. AUD. Orn. Biog. i, 1831, 476, pi. 95. NUTT. Man. i. 1832, 370. 

 Sylvicola (estiva Sw. & RICH. F. B. A. ii, 1831, 211. AUD. Synop. 1839, 58; B. Am. ii, 1841. 



50, pi. 88. -NUTT. Man. 2d ed. i, 1840. 417. 

 Dendroica cestiva BAIED, B. N. Am. 1858, 282; Cat. N. Am. B. 1857. No. 203; Review, 1865. 



195. COUES. Key, 1872, 97: Check List. 1873, No. 70; 2d ed. 1882, No. Ill; B. N. W. 1874. 



54, 232; B. Col. Val. 1878. 252.-B. B. R. Hist. N. Am. B. i, 1874, 222, pi. 14. flg. 1. 



RIDGW. Norn. N. Am. B. 1881, No. 93. 



