BIRDS OF ISORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 537 



DENDROICA TIGRINA (Gmelin). 

 CAPE MAY WARBLER. 



AduU male in sjyrhig and summer. — Pileuni })lack, sometimes (espe- 

 ciall}' in midsummer) uniformly so, usually with the feathers, at least 

 those of the occiput, margined more or less distinctly with olive (some- 

 times with rusty): sometimes a spot of rusty on center of crown; back, 

 scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, and upper rump olive-green, the feath- 

 ers with a central spot of ])lac"k; lower rump var^nng from yellowish 

 olive-green to cleai- canar}' yellow; upper tail-coverts ])lackish, ])roadly 

 margined with olive-green; middle wing-coverts white or pale 3^ellow, 

 only their extreme base dusky; rest of wings dusky, the greater coverts 

 more or less broadly edged wnth white, pale yellow, pale gray, or pale 

 olive, the remiges narrowly edged with light olive-green, these edgings 

 broader and paler on tertials; tail dusky, with olive-green or grayish 

 edgings, the three outermost rectrices with a large subterminal patch 

 of white on inner web, decreasing rapidly in size from the tirst to the 

 third; superciliary stripe rufous-chestnut, at least posteriorly (the 

 anterior portion sometimes yellow); a blackish loral and postocular 

 streak; suborbital and auricular regions plain cinnamon-rufous or 

 rufous-chestnut; sides of neck and under parts yellow, becoming much 

 paler (sometimes white) on flanks, lower abdomen, and under tail- 

 coverts; chest and sides more or less broadly (usually heavih') streaked 

 with black, the throat also sometimes streaked, and often tinged with 

 cinnamon or cinnamon-rufous; bill black, the mandilde sometimes 

 brownish ))asally; iris brown; legs and feet dusky brownish (in dried 

 skins). 



Adult male iv autumn and nr'mter. — Much like the spring or summer 

 male but black of pileum obscured by broad margins of olive or grayish 

 to the feathers, the black showing as central triangular spots; black 

 spots of back and scapulars nearly concealed; cinnamon-rufous of sides 

 of head largely replaced by yellow; bill paler, the mandil)le distinctly 

 brownish. 



Young male in first autumn. — Much like the adult male in autumn, 

 but colors duller; greater wing-coverts edged with pale olive-grayish, 

 instead of whitish; upper parts showing scarcely an}" black spotting 

 or streaking and much tinged with grayish; sides of head with scarcely 

 a trace of cinnamon-rufous, yellow of under parts paler, and black 

 stieaks of chest and sides narrower and less sharply defined. 



Adult female in spring and summefr. — ^ Above olive, becoming more 

 yellowish on lower rump, where the feathers are sometimes bright 

 olive-yellow with darker mesial streaks, the pileum more or less 

 streaked or spotted with black; wings dusky with light olive edgings, 

 the middle coverts tipped or margined terminally with white, the 

 greater coverts sometimes edged with pale grayish; tail as in adult 



