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KEY AND DESCRIPTION 



Yellow Warbler 



13. Yellow Warbler (052. Dendroica cestica). — This is the 

 yellow warbler in fact as well as name, having some shade of 



yellow throughout, 

 and forming our 

 only canary-colored 

 wild bird. The un- 

 der parts are some- 

 what streaked with 

 reddish, and the un- 

 der tail feathers are 

 yellow on the in- 

 ner webs and dusky 

 1)11 the outer. The 

 female is less bright- 

 ly yellow, and the 

 under parts are less streaked. This is a common inhabitant of 

 our gardens and orchards, and is often thought to be an 

 escaped canary ; its slender bill shows that it is a different 

 species. (Summer Yellow-bird ; Golden Warbler.) 



Lcnj::th, 5 ; wing, 21 (2|-2|) ; tail, 2 ; culnion, J. North America 

 throughout, excopt the southwest; breeding in nearly its whole range, 

 and wintering south to 

 northern South .\inerica. 



14. Black - throated 

 Blue Warbler (054. 

 lJcitdr(/)ra ccpruli^s- 

 cens). — A common, 

 grayish -blue- backed, 

 white-bellied warlder, 

 with black sides of 

 head and throat, and 

 irregular ])atches of 

 black along the sides 

 of the body. The 

 bases of the primaries form a white patch on the wings. The 

 female has the upper parts olive-green and the lower parts 



Black-throated Blue Warbler 



