BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLP: AMERICA. G07 



Belh^ dull white .shading- into gray on the sides and flanks. A faint 

 indication of wing bands, showing very faintly in some specimens. 

 Tail dark brown, the two outer feathers showing an arrow-shaped 

 -white mark on the terminal portion of the inner webs, variable in dif- 

 ferent specimens; most of the feathers of the wings and tail showing- 

 very narrow grayish edging- on the outer webs. Hill and feet dark 

 brown. Closely allied to Dendroica pityoj)hUa of Cuba. Length, 

 4.50; wing, 2.30; tail, 2.00; tarsus 0.60; bill, 0.45. 



"The female resembles the male, but the colors are slightly paler, 

 and it is perhaps somewhat smaller. 



'"^Habitat. — Abaco and Great Bahama islands, Bahamas."^ 

 Dendroica pityophUa hahamensis Cory, Auk, viii, Oct., 1891, 348 (Abaco I., Baha- 

 mas; coll. C. B. Cory), 350 (Great Bahama and Abaco islands); Cat. W. I. 

 Birds, 1892, 18, 118, 127, 155 (Abaco and Great Bahama islands). 



DENDROICA DISCOLOR (Vieillot). 

 PRAIRIE -WARBLER. 



Adult male in spring (Oid .v^/vyz-yy^f^r.— Above yellowish olive-green, 

 brightest on pileum and hindneck, slightly tinged or intermixed with 

 gra3nsh on upper tail-coverts; interscapulars chestnut centrally, more or 

 less broadly margined or edged with oliv'e-green; wings and tail dusky, 

 with pale grayish olive edgings, the middle wing-coverts broadly 

 tipped with pale yellow or light olive-yellow, the outer webs of greater 

 coverts sometimes yellowish terminally; inner webs of three outer- 

 most rectrices extensively white terminally, this occupying approxi- 

 mately one-half the web on lateral rectrix, successiveh" smaller on 

 the next two; superciliary stripe (broadest anteriorl}"), large subor- 

 bital crescentic spot, malar region and under parts clear gamlioge or 

 lemon yellow, paler posteriorly (under tail-coverts primrose 3'ellow); 

 a loral and short postocular streak, a liroad curved streak or crescentic 

 patch iumiediateh" beneath the yellow suborl)ital spot, and a series of 

 broad black streaks beginning on sides of lower throat and continued 

 along sides to flanks, I)lack; bill dark brown (the maxilla nearl}' black), 

 paler on tomia; iris brown; legs and feet dusky lirown. 



Adult male in antionn and whiter. — Similar to the spring and sum- 

 mer plumage, Init chestnut spots on back more or less concealed (often 

 quite so) by broader olive-green margins to the feathers. 



Adult female in sj^rhuj and summer. — Similar to the male and some- 

 times hardly distinguishable, but usually nnich duller in color, with 

 the chestnut spots on back indistinct (often obsoiete); the l)lack mark- 

 ings on sides of head replaced by didl g-ra3dsh, and the ])lack streaks 

 along sides less distinct, especially on flanks, Avhere grayish, or obsolete; 

 olive-green of upper parts sometimes parti}" replaced by grayish, and 

 yellow of lower parts b}" dull whitish. 



^Cory, Auk, viii, Oct., 1891, .348. 



