RIRPS — SYIA'irnLinAF. — OPOHORNIS roHMOSlTS. 



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the ash of the throat is so strongly tinged with brownish (witli perhaps a tinge of olive) as to 

 obscure the ash. The crown also is like the back. 



The Triclias tephrocolis of Niittall a|ipears to be only an adult in very full [)luma^e, with tlie 

 entire head above clear bluish ash, (as just referred to in No. 2930,) instead of glossed with 

 olivaceous, as in most specimens. 



List of specimens. 



OPORORNIS FORMOSUS, Buird. 



Kentucky Warbler. 



Sylvia fonnosa, Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 85 ; pi. xxv, f. 3.— BoN.tr. 01>s. Wils. 1H25-G, 15G.— Nuttall, Man. 



I, 1832, 399.— Audubon, Orn. Biog. I, 1832, 196; pi. 38. 

 SyhUola fonnosa, Jaudine ed. Wilson, 1832.— Rich. List, 1837.— Ronap. List, 1838. 

 MyioJioclesfurmosus, Aud. Syn. 1839, 50. — Ib. Birds America, II, 1841, 19; pi. 74. — Bonap. Conspectus, 1850,315. 



Sp. Ch. — Upper parts and sides dark olive green. Crown and sides of tlie head, including a triangular patch from behind 

 the eye down the side of the neck, hiack, the feathers of the crown narrowly lunulatcd at tips with dark ash. A lino from 

 nostrils over the eye and encircling it (except anteriorly) with the entire under parts, bright yellow. No white on the tail. 

 Female similar, with less black on the head. Length, 5 inches ; wing, 2.95 ; tail, 2.25. 



Hab. — Eastern United States as far west as Fort Riley, south to Guatemala. 



The wings of this species are long and pointed ; the first three nearly equal and considerably 

 longer than the rest. The tail is slightly rounded. 



List of specimens. 



