1 84 Dr, A. Hall on the Mammals and Birds 



Dorsal aspect. Forehead and cheeks black, including the eyes 

 and the auriculars ; behind the auriculars a spot of bufFy white ; 

 crown of head bright bay ; scapulars, dorsal region and rump 

 brownish-black, with broad margins and tips of olivaceous yel- 

 low ; greater and smaller wing coverts black, tipped with white^ 

 causing an appearance of two white bands; primaries, secon- 

 daries, and tail feathers brown, the three lateral tail feathers with 

 white spots on the inner webs near their tips. 



Ventral aspect. Chin, throat, "Breast, and sides, bay ; belly, tail, 

 inner tail and wing coverts white, tinged with yellow. 



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

 alar breadth 7| inches. The female has a paler bay on th^ 

 breast, and less black on the head. 



S, ^:>mw5. Pine Warbler. 

 Dendroica pinus. Baird ! 



v.s.p. Bill and feet brown ; irides hazel ; eggs 4, greenish- 

 white, mottled with pale brown and slight purple. 



Dorsal aspect. Olive brown interspersed with streaks of a dark- 

 er hue ; tail coverts olive yellow ; primaries and secondaries edged 

 with brownish-olive, narrowly on the 1st primary, rather broadly 

 on the 2nd ; the tips of all having a whitish worn appearance. 

 A yellow line, from the nostrils over the eye, terminates over the 

 auriculars which are of the dorsal colour. 



Ventral aspect. Faint gamboge yellow, interrupted on the 

 breast by olive brown streaks, which are continued along the 

 flanks ; tail coverts bright yellow ; tail clove brown, outer vanes 

 edged with olive yellow ; inner vanes of the two lateral ones white 

 towards their tips. 



2nd primary longest ; 1st, 3rd and 4th, subequal. Length 4f 

 inches ; alar breadth 7J inches. According to Nuttall, — " The 

 male is bright olive yellow tinged with green, beneath yellow 

 with obscure spots ; vent white ; wings with two white bands, and 

 with the tail dusky brown ; two lateral tail feathers partly white ; 

 lores not black." My description is taken from a female. 

 Sylvia rubricapilla. Nashville ^^^arbler. 

 Helminthophaga ruficapilla. Bair.: ! 



v.s.M. Bill horn colour, pale beneath at the b;ise; irides dark ; 

 legs and feet pale ; eggs unknown. 



Dorsal aspect. Crown dark chesnut; frontlet, sides of head, 

 lores and occiput, ashy, tinted in the latter situation on the male 



