BIRDS OB" NORTH AND MIDDLE AMP:RICA. '599 



DENDROICA VIGORSII VIGORSII (Audubon). 

 PINE WARBLER. 



Largest species of the genus (wing 67.5-76 in male, 66.5-70 in 

 female); upper parts (except wings and tail) unicolored (plain olive- 

 green, grayish olive, or olive-brownish); wing-bands dull white or 

 grayish. 



Adult 'male in spring and suminer. — Above plain bright olive-green, 

 usually becoming more grayish on scapulars; wings and tail dusky 

 with dull gray edgings, the middle and greater wing-coverts broadly 

 tipped with dull white or pale gray, producing two distinct bands; 

 inner webs of two outermost rectrices extensively white terminally, 

 the white on lateral rectrix occupying nearly the terminal half, the 

 outer web more or less broadlv edged with white; sides of head and 

 neck olive-green, the former relieved by a narrow, usually indistinct, 

 superciliar}^ streak and a crescentic su1)orbital spot of yellow, the 

 lores usually darker olive-green, often becoming dusky at anterior 

 angle of eye; malar region, chin, throat, chest, and l)reast — usually 

 upperportion of abdomen also — yellow (intermediate l)etween gaml»oge 

 and canary yellow), the sides of chest and breast usually streaked, 

 more or less, with olive-greenish, sometimes distinctly streaked with 

 dusky; posterior under parts dull whitisli, the under tail-coverts gray 

 basally; bill brownish black, the mandilde more ])rownish basall}'; 

 iris brown; legs and feet dusk}- ])rown. 



Adidt male in avtuitm anrl winter. — Similar to the spring and summer 

 dress, but plumage softer and colors purer, especially the yellow of 

 under parts, which is nearly clear lemon yellow; l)ill more brownish, 

 the basal portion of mandible decidedly paler. 



Adnlt feinalt in xprimj a nd mnnnur. — Smaller and nnich duller in 

 color than the male; above plain olive, or dull olive-greenish, inclining 

 to gray on hindneck and sea})ulars, sometimes almost wholly dull gray; 

 beneath pale olive-yellowish anteriorly and dull whitish posteriorh^ 

 sometimes wholly dull grayish white, faintly tinged with yellow on 

 chest, the sides and Hanks more strongly tinged with olive or grayish, 

 and sometimes obsoletely streaked with darker, especially on sides of 

 chest; wings and tail as in the male. 



Adult female in autnnm and winter. — Similar to the spring and 

 summer dress, but plumage softer, the upper parts tinged with brown 

 and under parts tinged with buflf. 



Young male injlr.st autumn and winter? — Similar to the adult male 

 of corresponding season, but upper parts tinged with brown, the lower 

 parts with buff. 



Yaung female hi fird autumn and winter. — Similar to the adult 

 female of corresponding season, but more decidedly brown above and 

 more strongly tinged with buff below. 



