THE WESTERN CHAT. 



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Taken in Oregon. Photo by H. T. Bohlman and W . L. Finley. 



AN ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION. 



MALE PACIFIC YELLOW-THROAT FEEDING YOUNG. 



After tiring me witli their 



very anxious to aid me in finding their home 

 deceit, they sneaked away fifty yards to tlie nest. A Httle later in the 

 season I liappened to see the father carrying worms and discovered the 

 young Yellow-tliroats just about to leave home. 



William L. Finley. 



No. 83. 

 WESTERN CHAT. 



A. O. U. No. 683 a. Icteria virens longicaiida (Lawrence). 



Synonym. — Long-tailed Chat. 



Description. — Adult male: Above grayish olive-green; fuscous on exposed 

 inner webs of wings and tail; a prominent line above lores and eye, a short malar 

 stripe, and eye-ring, white; enclosed space black on lores, less pure behind; throat, 

 breast, lining of wings, and upper sides rich gamboge yellow ; lower belly and 

 crissum abruptly white; sides washed with brownish; bill black; feet plumbeous. 

 Adult female: Very similar; bill lighter; lores and cheek-patch dusky rather 

 than black; black appreciably lighter. Young: Dull olive above: head markings 

 of adult faintly indicated ; below grayish white, darker on breast, huffier behind. 



