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cui'ved and compressed towards the apex ; tarsus not much longer 

 than the middle toe ; irides black ; eggs 5, whitish mottled with 

 brown. 



Dorsal aspect. A white streak bordered by a black one, and 

 this by a white one immediately above the eye, proceeding from 

 the base of the bill, traverses the crown of the head and nape of 

 the neck, and is lost upon the shoulders, A black streak from 

 the angle of the mouth proceeds below the eye and includes the 

 auriculars. This is separated by a white line on the throat from 

 its fellow. Dorsal feathers black streaked with white ; tail coverts, 

 and greater and smaller wing coverts black, with white edging 

 and tips on the outer vanes ; primaries and secondaries clove 

 brown, with white edgings to the inner vanes of all, and slate 

 coloured edgings to the outer vanes, except on the 1st primary 

 and two last secondaries ; the former of which is minutely, and 

 the latter broadly edged with white ; tail feathers clove brown • 

 the two outer ones with broad white tips on the outer vane, the 

 rest, except the centre ones, edged with white on the inner vanes, 

 and slate white on the outer vanes. The two centre feathers clove 

 brown, with slate white edgings ; tail subfurcate. 



Ventral aspect. Chin and throat black, all the rest white with 

 black streaks. 



2nd primary longest; 1st and 3rd equal. Length 4f inches ; 

 alar breadth 8 inches. The female has the crown wholly black ; 

 primaries edged with olive, and less yellow ; the throat, as also in 

 the young bird greyish ; bastard wings rudimentary. 



S, coronata. Yellow-crowned Warbler. — Myrtle-bird. 

 Dendroica coronata. Baird ! 



v.s.p. Bill, tarsi and toes black ; irides hazel ; eggs unknown. 



Dorsal aspect. Crown of head, and rump bright orange-yellow ; 

 forehead black, all the other parts slate colour spotted with black, 

 the spots most conspicuous in the interscapulary region, and least 

 so on the nape of the neck ; they are subtri angular ; greater and 

 smaller wing coverts brownish black, edged with slate and tipped 

 with white ; primaries and secondaries clove brown, edged with 

 brownish-white ; tail subfurcate, clove brown, edged with brown- 

 ish-white, and with a large white spot on the distal end of the 

 inner vanes of the three outer feathers. 



Ventral aspect. Chin, belly, vent, and tail coverts Wack; 

 breast black, with white tips ; sides of the breast king's yellow ; 

 wing coverts slate ; flank feathers streaked with black. A black 



