212 NORTH AMERICAH BIRDS. 



P. carbonata. No white patches on lail-feaihers. 



Ko ohestuut about head. Two bands on the wing, the anterior one 

 white, the posterior yellow. Outer web of lateral tail-feather whitish. 



Perissoglossa tigrina, JLviitu. ^ 



CAPE MAY WAEBLEK. 7 



Motitcilla ticjrhui, Gmrlin, Syii. Nat. I, 17SS, 985. Sijlvia tig. L.VfH. Dendroicatig. B.\ikd, 

 Birds N. Am. 1858, 286. — Solater, Catal. 1861, 33, no. 198; P. Z. S. 1861, 71 

 (.Jamaic-a, April). — March, Pr. An. Sc. 1863, 293 (Jamaica ; breeds). — A. & E. New- 

 ton, Ibis, 185!), 144 (St. Croix. Notes on anatomy of tongue). — Gundlaoh, Cab. 

 Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba ; not rare). — Samuels, 240. Perissoglossa tigrina, B.\ikd, Rev. 

 Am. Birds, 1864, 181. Sylvia inaritima, Wilson, Am. Orn. VI, 1812, 99, pi. liv, 

 fig. 3. ^ Bon. ; Nutt. ; Aim. Orn. Biog. V, pi. cccc.xiv. — D'Orb. La Sagra's Cub. 

 1840, 70, pi. .\. Sylvicola mar. Jard., Bon., Aud. Birds Am. II, pi. Ixxxv. Ccrthi- 

 ola mar. GossE, Birds Jam. 1847, 81. — Ib. Illust. Jihimamphus nuir. C'.a.b. Join-. 

 Ill, 1855, 474 (Cuba.) 



Sp. Char. Bill very acute, conical, and decidedh' curved. Bill and feet Mack. Upper 

 part of head dull black, some of the feathers i'aintly margined witli light yellowish-brown. 

 Collar scarcely meeting behind ; rump and under parts generally rich yellow. Throat, fore- 

 part of breast, and sides, streaked with black. Abdomen and lower tail-coverts pale yel- 

 low, brighter about the vent. Ear-coverts light reddish-chestnut. Back part ef a yellow 

 line from nostrils over the eye of this same color ; chin and throat tinged also with it. A 

 black line from commissure through the eye, and running into the chestnut of tlie ear- 

 coverts. Back, shoulder, edges of the wing and tail, j-ollowish-olive ; the former spotted 

 with dusky. One row of small eovei'ts, and outer bases of the secondary coverts, form a 

 large patch of white, tinged with pale yellow. Tertials rather broadly edged with brown- 

 ish-white. Quills and tail dark brown, the three outer feathers of the latter largely marked 

 with white on the inner web ; edge of the outer web of the outer feathers white, more 

 perceptible towards the base. Length, 5.25 ; wing, 2.84; tail, 2.15. 



Female. Above olivaceous-ash, most yellowish on rump ; no black nor chestnut on 

 head. Wing-coverts inconspicuously edged with whitish. Tail-spots very inconspicuous. 

 Beneath dull white tinged with yellowish on the breast, and streaked as in the male, 

 but witli dusky grayish instead of black. 



Hab. Eastern Province of United States, north to Lake Wimiipeg and Moo.se Factory ; 

 all the West Indies to St. Croix. Breeds in Jamaica. Not recorded from Mexico or Cen- 

 tral America. 



The chestnut about the liead in adult males varies in amount witli the 

 individual ; sometimes (as in 20,633, May, Moose Factory, Hudson's Bay Ter- 

 ritory) there is an oblong spot of chestnut in the middle of the crown, Ijut 

 generally this is absent. Very frequently the chestnut tinges the throat. All 

 variations in these respects appear, however, to be individual, and not de- 

 pendent at all on locality. West Indian specimens appear to be absolutely 

 identical with those from Nortli America. 



Autumnal specimens are browner, the chestnut markings much obscured. 



Habits. This somewhat rare species, so far as its liistory and distribution 

 are known with certainty, is migratory in the principal i>ortions of the United 



