Perching Birds Marked With Yellow or Orange 



656. Audubon Warbler [Dendroica audubont). L. 

 5.6. Crown, sides of bre.ist, rump, and throat usually 

 with yellow. Ad. <j\ 1 hroat bright yellow; breast 

 black; back blue-gray streaked with black; wing-bars 

 broadly white; outer tail-feathers with white. > Ad. $. 

 Similar to male, but breast grayish; yellow less bright; 

 less white in wings. <j\ Winter. Like same plumage 

 of No. 655, but throat yellowish; more white in tail. 

 $, Winter. Similar, but less yellow, throat sometimes 

 without yellow, when like No. 655, bi>t white on four 

 or five outer tail-feathers instead of on two or three. 



Range. — Western United States; breeding In higher mountains 

 from southern California and New Mexico north to British Columbia; 

 winters south into Mexico. 



65 6a. Black-fronted Warbler (D. a. nigrifrons). 



Similar to No. 656, but Ad. $ with forehead, sides of 

 crown, and ears black; back black, narrowly margined 

 with bluish gray. In winter. Bluish gray, not brown- 

 ish above. Ad. $ darker, more heavily streaked with 

 black above. (Ridgw. ) 



Range. — Mountains of northern Mexico north to southern Arizona. 



657. Magnolia Warbler 1 Dendroica maculosa). L. 

 5.1. Rump yellow; seen from below a white band 

 across middle of tail. Ad. rj\ Crown ashy, back 

 black; wing-coverts broadly white; below yellow 

 streaked with black. Ad. $ . Duller; fewer black 

 stripes below; wing-bars separated, narrow. Yng. and 

 Ad in winter. Crown and sides of head brownish ashy, 

 back olive-green; below yellow, sides occasionally 

 streaked. Notes. Song, a loud, clear whistle, chee-to, 

 chee-to, chee-tee-ee, uttered rapidly and with a falling in- 

 flection. (Langille. ) 



Range. Eastern North America, west in migrations, to the Rock- 

 ies; breeds from northern New England, noriliern Michigan (and 

 south along the Alleghanies to Penns\ lvani.i), north to Quebec and 

 Hudson Bay region; winters in Central America. 



663. Yellow-throated Warbler {Dendroica domini- 



ca). L. 5.2. Ads. I hroat and line from bill to eye 

 yellow; cheeks and forehead black; back bluish gray; 

 two broad white wing-bars; tail-patches white. Notes. 

 Song, loud, ringing and ventriloquial; suggesting that 

 of Indigo Bunting but shorter. 



Range.— Southeastern United States; breeds from Florida north to 

 Virginia and winters from Florida south into West Indies. 



b63a. Sycamore Warbler (D. d. albilora). Simi- 

 lar to No. 663, but bill smaller, line from eye to bill white 

 or with but traces of yellow. 



Range.— Mississippi Valley; breeds from Texas north to Kanas, 

 southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and West Virginia; winters in 

 Mexico and Central America. 



664. Grace Warbler (JDendroica gracice). L. 5. 

 Ad. c?. Throat and line over eye yellow; cheeks gray; 

 above gray, crown and back with black streaks; wing- 

 bars and tail-patches white. Ad. $?• Similar, but 

 duller, back sometimes brownish. 



Range. — Northwestern Mexico, north to New Mexico, southwestern 

 Colorado, and Arizona. 



3 90 



