SUMMER YELLOW-BIRD OR WARBLER. 



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erts and tertials edged with pale brown (in the spring when the feath- 

 ers are worn). Tail a little forked, and of the color of the wings ; the 

 2 lateral feathers with a large spot of pure white near to their tips. 

 Legs and bill dusky brown, the latter shorter and more slender than 

 in S. cBstlva. — In the young' male the bay of the crown is edged, 

 and the breast spotted with olive. 



SUxAIMER YELLOW-BIRD or WARBLER. 



{Sylvia cBstiva, Lath. Audubon, pi. 95. Orn. Biog. i, p. 476. 

 S. citrinella Wilson, ii. p. 111. pi. 15. fig. 5. [male.] Buffon, pi. 

 enl. 53. No. 1. [female.] Phil. Museum, No. 726C.) 



Sp. Charact. — Greenish-yellow; crown and beneath bright yel- 

 low ; breast and sides streaked with rufous orange ; lateral tail- 

 feathers interiorly yellow. — Female with the breast unspotted. 

 — Young greenish, inclining to oUve above ; and with the throat 

 nearly white. 



This very common and brilliant summer species is 

 found in all parts of the American continent from the 

 confines of the arctic circle to Florida, where it spends 

 the mild season. About the middle of March, I already 

 heard their song amidst the early blooming thickets and 

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