HiO PKOCEEDIXGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1896. 



plumage, like the males in the first winter. One old (?) specimen 

 (May 19, Coll. A. X. S., No. 29,592) is quite gray above. 

 Dendroica ooronata (Linn.). Myrtle Warbler. 



Plumages, first, first winter, nuptial, adult winter, adult nuptial. 



A good series of winter and spring examples of this species from 

 southern Xew Jersey shows the spring molt very satisfactorilv. The 

 entire plumage of the head and breast is renewed as well as the 

 greater part of the iuterscapulum. The tertials are not molted. 

 Old birds, in fall, have more or less gray feathers on the back and 

 black centered feathers on the breast, but they all continue to molt 

 in spring. A spring bird, which I take to be of the second or 

 third year, has the black on the breast uniform, not broken up 

 by white edgings to the feathers. 



Dendroica maculosa (Gmel.). Magnolia Warbler. 



Plumages and molts as in the last. Adults in winter difler from 

 birds of the year in the heavy stripes on the sides of the bodv, and 

 large black centers to feathers of the back. Spring birds of the 

 second or third year have the interscapulum solid black, all the way 

 to the yellow rump. 

 Dendroica pensylvanica (Linn.). Chestnat-sided Warbler. 



Plumages, first, fii-st winter, nuptial, adult winter. 



Spring molt rather more extensive than in the last two species, 

 and the adult in fall always more distinct from the nuptial plumage, 

 only difiering from the bird of the year in the chestnut stripes on 

 the sides. The tertials are not renewed in spring. 



Dendroica caernlea (Wils.). Cerulean Warbler. 



According to the British Museum Catalogue, the winter adult is 

 practically like the spring bird, so that the plumages will be as in 

 D. ccemle^eens. 



Dendroica castanea (Wils.). Bay-breasted Warbler. 



Exactly like D. pensylvanica in number and relations of plum- 

 age. 



Dendroica striata (Forst.), Black-poU Warbler. 



Plumages, first, first nuptial, first winter, adult winter, adult 

 nuptial. 



This species, unlike the preceding, renews the tertials in spring. 

 ^^ hat I take to be the first nuptial plumage shows remains of the 

 olive winter dress on the crown and sides of the neck. Adults 



