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the ■white minute on the outer vanes and tinged with brown ; tail, 

 all the feathers, except the two centre ones, have a single broad 

 bar of white on the centre of their inner vanes. 



Ventral aspect. A white streak passes from the nostril, sur- 

 rounds the eye, separates the ashy blue crown and nape of neck 

 from the black auriculars, and loses itself on the shoulders ; whole 

 lower aspect gamboge yellow, streaked with black along the 

 breast, sides and flanks ; tail and wings, with vent, white. 



2nd primary longest ; 3rd a little longer than 1st. Length 4^ 

 inches ; alar breadth V inches. The female has the breast whit- 

 ish and the colours duller. 



S. pardalina. Canada Warbler. 

 Muscicapa Canadensis of Wilson. 

 Myiodioctes Canadensis. Baird ! 



v.s.p. Upper mandible brown ; lower one pale ; tarsi, toes, 

 and claws pale; eggs unknown. 



Dorsal aspect. Crown black ; nape of neck, inters capulary re- 

 gions, scapulars, greater and smaller wing coverts, and tail coverts 

 ashy, with an olivaceous tinge in the interscapular space; wings 

 and tail brown, with a minute brownish white edging on the outer 

 vanes of the feathers of the former. 



Ventral aspect. Eyelids yellow. A white streak from the angle 

 of the mouth, proceeds backwards below the eye, and including 

 the auriculars, terminates on the sides of the neck. All the in- 

 ferior surfaces gamboge yellow, with a broad belt of black spots 

 across the breast ; wing and tail coverts white. 



2nd primary longest. Length 5^ inches ; alar breadth, 8j- in- 

 ches. Does this bird differ in any material respect from the Se- 

 tophaga Buonapartii ? 



S. Philadelphica. Mourning Warbler. 

 Geothlypsis Philadelj^hica. Baird ! 



v.s.p. Upper mandible black with pale edges ; lower one, tarsi, 

 claws, and toes pale flesh colour; eggs unknown. 



Dorsal aspect. Head and neck lead colour, darker on the crown 

 of the head, and terminating on the breast in a crescent of black 

 feathers, tipped wnth greyish white ; dorsal region, scapulars, 

 greater and smaller wing coverts, tail coverts and tail olive green, 

 the vanes of the last inclining to brown ; primaries and secon- 

 daries light brown, with olivaceous green edgings on the outer 

 vane of each feather, except the 1st on which it is white. 



Ventral aspect. Lower part of breast, belly, vent, inner tail and 



