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brown, .soinctimos approaching dull white; inner webs of two outer- 

 Diost rectrices with a terminal white spot, this about 18-22 lono<)n the 

 lateral rectrix; malar region, chin, tlii'oat, and rest of under parts 

 pale lemon, canary, or primrose yellow, fading into white on under 

 tail-coverts; sides and flanks grayish, streaked with dusky, the pro- 

 nounced gray area on each side of breast separated from the yellow of 

 the median portion l)y a series of broad black streaks; chest usually 

 with a few small flecks of dusky, sometimes immaculate yellow; maxilla 

 blackish Avith pale brownish tomia; mandible horn brownish, darker 

 terminally, paler hasally; iris brown; legs and feet dark horn brown- 

 ish; length (skins), 125-150 (IS-t.f)); wing, 70-72 (71.4); tail, 57-65 

 (58.8); exposed culmen, 11-13 (11.9); tarsus, 21.5-23 (22.3); middle 

 toe, 12-13 (12.6).^ 



Adult fciiKil'' hi Hjyrlng. — Similar to the adult male, but duller in 

 color; the bhiish slate-gray of pileum, hindneck, and rump replaced 

 with ))rownish gra}^; black streaks of l)ack and scapulars rather nar- 

 rower; yellow of under parts averaging slightly paler, and chest more 

 freijuently as well as more extensively speckled or flecked with dusky; 

 length (skins) 126-138 (132.1); wing, 64-71 (66.7); tail, 53-58(56.4); 

 exposed culmen. 11-13 (11.9); tarsus, 21-22 (21.3); middle toe, 12-13 



P^astern United States and more southern British Provinces, chiefly 

 west of the Alleghenies; very irregularly^ distributed and breeding 

 range unknown; has been taken in the following States: Ohio (Clev^e- 

 land; Rockport; Hamilton County); Indiana (Wabash); Illinois (Win- 

 nebago and Cook counties); Missouri (St. Louis County); Minnesota 

 (Minneapolis); Wisconsin (Racine); Michigan (Ann Arbor; Straits of 

 Mackinac); Virginia (Fort Myer); South Carolina (Chester); also in 

 Ontario (Toronto). Winters in the Bahamas (Watlings, Green Ca}', 

 Berry, Abaco, Eleuthera, New Providence, Andros, North Caicos, East 

 Caicos, and Grand Caicos islands). 



Sylvicolu kirtlandii Bated, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., v, 1852, 217, pi. 6 (Cleve- 

 land, Ohio; type in coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. ). — Zuchold, Journ. fiir Orn., 1854, 

 855.— Cassin, Illustr. Birds Cal., Tex., etc., 1855, 278, pi. 47. 



Dendroica kirtlandii Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 286; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 205; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 206 (at sea, bet. Abaco, Baha- 

 mas, and Cuba; 2 additional specs, from Cleveland, Ohio). — Wheaton, Ohio 

 Agric. Rep. for 1860 (1861), 374 (Cleveland, Ohio; Racine, Wisconsin).— 

 Stone, Auk, xv, 1898, 331 (no valid record for Pennsylvania). 



Dendroica kirtlandi Baird, Brewer, and Ruk;\vay, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 

 272, pi. 14, fig. 5. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, 

 no. 670.— Ridgwav, Auk, viii, 1891, 337 (Watlings I., Bahamas, Mar. 4 to 9), 

 338 (Green Cay, Bahamas, Apr. 12).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 38; viii, 1891, 

 295 (Berry Islands, Bahamas), 297 (Caicos Islands, Bahamas, Jan. or Feb.), 

 298 (Abaco I., Bahamas, Mar.); Birds W. I., 1889, 52; Cat. W. I. Birds, 

 1892, 118, 155 (Abaco, Berry Islands, Eleuthera, New Providence, Andros, Wat- 



^ Five specimens. ^ Seven specimens. 



