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a". Wings plain olive-green or gray. 



V-. Inner webs of three outer tail-feathers marked with a large white spot, 

 extending to the shaft. 



Adult male : Forehead and lower parts yellow; a large patch of black 

 covering lower throat, chest, and upper breast ; band across an- 

 terior part of crown black ; rest of crown, with occiput, rather 

 dull ash-gray ; rest of upper parts, including ear-coverts, uniform 

 olive-green ; anterior half of lesser wing-covert region lemon-yel- 

 low ; quills dusky, edged with light ash-gray. Adult female : With- 

 out black on crown, and that of throat and chest replaced by dusky 

 olive ; otherwise much like male. Length about 3.95-4.50, wing 

 2.40, tail 1.95. (Bill more acute and decurved at tip than in other 

 Helminthophilce.) Nest said to be placed " in low trees." Eggs (re- 

 puted) 4, about .74 X -60, dull white, heavily wreathed round 

 larger end with dark brown. {H. B. Bailey, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 viii. 1883, p. 38.) Hah. South Atlantic and Gulf States, from South 

 Carolina (near Charleston) to Louisiana; western Cuba in winter. 

 640. H. bachmani (Aud.). Bachman's Warbler. 

 h^. Inner webs of outer tail-feathers without white spot (if with broad white 

 edging, this not extending nearly to shaft). 

 c\ Upper tail-coverts olive-green ; wing 2.40, or more. 

 d^. Lores and part of ear-coverts black. 



Adult male : Above olive-green ; lower parts (including under 

 tail-coverts), suborbital spot, and forehead pure gamboge- 

 yellow ; length 4.75, wing 2.55, tail 2.00, exposed culmen 

 .55, tarsus .75. Hab. Yicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio. 

 — . H. cincinnatiensis (Langd.). Cincinnati Warbler.' 

 d"^. Lores and ear-coverts without any black. 



e^. Under tail-coverts and axillars pui'e white ; no rufous or chest- 

 nut on crown, in any stage ; first quill equal to or longer 

 than fourth (usually longer, and sometimes longest). 



Adult male in spring : Top of head and hind-neck pure 

 ash-gray ; rest of upper parts plain olive-green ; quills 

 dusky, edged with light ash-gray ; sides of head 

 whitish, relieved by a gray postocular streak, or 

 mostly ash-gray, relieved by a superciliary streak and 

 less distinct suborbital space of white; lower parts 

 white, the sides and flanks tinged with ash-gray 

 (most strongly on sides of breast). Adidt female in 

 spring : Similar to male, but gray of head and neck 

 usually more or less tinged with olive-green, and white 



1 Hehiunthoiiharjn cincinnatiensia Langdon, Jour. Cine. Soc. Nat. Hist. July, 18S0, 119, 120, pi. 4. 

 There are strong grounds for believing this bird to be a hybrid between H. pinus and Oporornis formosa. 

 (See on this point Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v. 18S0, p. 237.) 



