Perching Birds Marked With Yellow or Orange 



672a. Yellow Palm Warbler (D. p. hypocbrysea). 



Similar to No. 672, but underparts entirely bright yel- 

 low; upperparts yellower. Winter specimens are 

 whiter below but are still conspicuously yellow. 



Range. Eastern United States; breeds from Nova Scotia north- 

 ward, east of Hudson Bay; migrates through Atlantic States and 

 winters in Florida and west to Louisiana, 



673. Prairie Warbler (Dendroica discolor). L. 4.7. 

 Wing-bars yellowish; tail-patches white. Ad. rf. 

 Above bright olive-green with reddish chestnut spots 

 in the back; below yellow, sides with black streaks. 

 Ad. 9- Similar, but usually duller; chestnut spots 

 smaller, sometimes absent. Yng. Similar to $ Ad., 

 but browner. Notes. Song, a high, thin qee, ^ee, %ee, 

 £<?<?, ^ee-e, 7ee, the next to last highest. (See page 196.) 



Range. — Eastern United States; breeds from Florida to Massachu- 

 setts, southern Ontario, and southern Michigan; winters from south- 

 ern Florida Into the West Indies. 



Lawrence Warbler {Helminthophila lawrencei). Re- 

 sembles No. 641, but has a black breast patch and 

 a broad black stripe through the eye as in No. 642. 

 It is believed to be a hybrid between the two. Some 

 15 specimens are known. Its notes are said to re- 

 semble those of both No. 642 and No. 641. 



Brewster Warbler {Helminthophila leucobronchialis) . 

 Resembles No. 642 above, but is white usually 

 tinged with yellow below, this type being connected 

 with No. 641, by specimens showing more green above 

 and yellow below. Hybridism and dichromatism are 

 believed to account for these birds of which somewhat 

 over a hundred specimens are known, chiefly from the 

 lower Hudson and Connecticut Valleys. Some songs 

 resemble those of No. 642, others those of 641. 



644. Virginia Warbler {Helminthophila virginice). 

 L. 4.5. No white in wings or tail. Ad. rf. Above 

 gray, crown-patch chocolate; upper tail-coverts yel- 

 lowish; below whitish, breast-patch and under tail- 

 coverts yellow. Ad. $ . Similar, but less (sometimes 

 no) chocolate in crown and yellow on tail-coverts; 

 duller below. Yng. No crown patch; below washed 

 with buff, little or no yellow on breast. Notes. Very 

 musical, with a song of remarkable fullness for so 

 small a bird. (Aitken.) 



Range. — Rocky Mountain region from Nevada and Colorado (rarely 

 Wyoming) south into Mexico. 



655. Myrtle Warbler (Dendroica coronata). L. 5.6. 

 Crown, sides of breast and rump yellow. Ad. rj. 

 Above blue-gray streaked with black; throat white, 

 breast largely black; two white wing-bars; outer tail- 

 feathers with white. Ad. 9. Browner above, less black 

 on breast, cf *n winter. Above brown, back indis- 

 tinctly streaked with black; below whitish, breast and 

 sides streaked with black. Yng. $. Similar, but less 

 yellow on crown and sides. Notes. Call, a character- 

 istic tchip; song, a trill. 



Range. — Eastern North America, west in migrations, to the Rockies; 

 breeds from northern New England and northern Minnesota north to 

 Labrador and Alaska; winters from Massachusetts and Kansas south 

 Into West Indies and C»«tral America. 



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