222 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



2G. D. pinus. Forehead and ear-ooverts olive ; abdomen white ; yellow 

 supra-loral stripe not continued beliind the eye. 9 more grayish ; juv. 

 above umber, beneath light grayish-brown, tinged with yellow. Ilah. 

 Eastern Province of United States ; Bahamas. 



? 27. D. moutana. Forehead and ear-coverts yellow ; abdomen yellow; 

 yellow supra-lojal stripe continued past the e_Te into the yellow of the 

 auriculars. ( <? and other stages unknown.) Hob. " Blue Mountains of 

 Virginia." 



b. Above olive-green, tlie back streaked with chestnut ; crissum yellow ; 

 streaks of black on sides. 



28. D. discolor. Bright gamboge-yellow beneath ; streak on lores 

 and along side of neck, as well as along sides and flanks, deep black : 

 dorsal feathers chestnut medially. 9 duller, but similar ; juv. not seen. 

 Hob. Eastern Province of United States : in winter, throughout West 

 Indies. 



c. Above olive-brown, the back not streaked ; crissum gamboge-yellow ; 

 streaks of reddish-chestnut on sides. 



29. D. palmarum. Ad. Forehead and crown deep rufous; superciliary 

 stripe bright yellow, continued back over auriculars ; sexes alike. Juv. 

 and ad. in winter. Crown brownish, streaked with dusky ; streaks on 

 sides more dusky. Hab. Eastern Province of North America, north 

 to Fort Simpson and Hudson's Bay ; Bahamas ; Cuba, St. Domingo, 

 and Jamaica, in winter. 



Dendroica aestiva, B.vied. 



YELLOW WAEBLER; SUMMEE YELLOW-BIRD. 



Motacilla ccstiva, Gm. Syst. Nat. 1, 1788, 996. — Sylvia cestiva, L.vrii. ; Vieill. II, pi. xcv. 

 — AuD. Om. Biog. 1, pi. xx.w. 93. Sylmcola msl. Sw.\iNs. — AuD. liirds. Am. II, jil. 

 Ixxxviii. Ithimamphus test. BoN. ; Cab. Jour. Ill, 472 (Cuba). Dcndroiai test. B.\ilU), 

 Birds N. Am. IS.^S, 282; Rev. 195. — Scl.\teu, Catal. 1801, 32, no. 194 (Ecuador, 

 Cayunne, N. Granada). — Tavlok, Ibis, 1864, 81 (Trinidad). — Cooper & Sickley, 

 P. R. R. XII, II, 18.59, 181 (N. W. coast). — SAMUEL.S, 237. — Dall & Baxmstek, 

 (Alaska). — Cooper, Om. Cal. I, 1870, 87. Sylvia carolincnsis. Lath. Ind. Om. II, 

 1790, 551. 1 Sylvia flava, Vieillot, II, 1807, 31, pi. Ixxxi. Sylvia citrinella, WiLS. 

 II, pi. XV, fig. 5. Sylvia childrcni, AUD. Om. Biog. I, 1831, pi. xxxv (young). ? Syl- 

 via rathbonia, AlTD. Orn. Biog. 1, 1831, pi. Ixv. Sylvicola r. AuD. Birds Am. II, jil. 

 Ixxxix. Motacilla rubiginosa, Pallas, Zoog. Rosso-Asiat. I, 1831, 496 (Kodiak). l!hi- 

 mnmphus chryseolus, BoN. Bull. Soc. Linn. Caen, II, 1851, 32 {D. onstiva, from South 

 America ; Cayenne). 



Other localities: Xalnpa, Sclatei;, P. Z. S. 1859,303. Guakmala, Sclater & Salvin, 

 Ihis, 1859, page 11. Patuima, winter, Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Lye. 1861, 322. Turbo, 

 N. Graiuuhi, Cass. Pr. A. N. Sc. 1860, 191. Bogota, ScLATER, Pr. 1855, 143. City 

 of Mexico, Ib. 1864, 172. 



Sp. Char. Bill lead-color. Head all round, and under parts generally, bright yellow ; 

 rest of upper parts yellow-olivaceous, brightest on the rump. Back with obsolete streaks 

 of dusky reddish-brown. Fore breast and sides of the body streaked with brownish-red. 

 Tail-feathers bright yellow ; the outer webs and tips, with the whole upper surfaces of the 

 innermost one, brown ; extreme outer edges of wing and tail-feathers olivaceous like the 

 back ; the middle and greater coverts and tertials edged with yellow, forming two bands 

 on the wings. Female similar, with the crown olivaceous like the back, and the streaks 



