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— perfectly black ; throat black ; a small yellow loral spot , nigrescens 



— not black ; no yellow ; feet flesh color striata 



— with yellow spot ; throat flame-color ; rump not yellow hlackburnicB 



— white ; rump and sides of breast yellow . coronata 



— yellow ; rump and sides of breast yellow auduboni 



(b) Crown otherwise ; throat black; back ashy, streaked, rump ash, crown yellow occidentalis 



— black, like rump and crown chrysoparia 



— olive ; crown like back virens 



— uotUke back tounsendi 



— yellow ; back olive ; no black or ashy on head vigorsi 



— ashy-blue ; cheeks the same ; eyelids yellow gracioe 



— black ; eyelids white dominica and d. albilora 



Diagnostic marks of certain Warblers in any plnmage. 



Bill as above said for Perissoglossa ; rump generally yellow tigrina 



Bill as above said for P(»u('«/ra;/i«s; head orange-brown or yellowish olivacea 



Wing-bars and belly yellow discolor 



Wings and tail dusky, edged with yellow ces/iia or bryanti 



Wing-bars yellow, and belly pure white pennsylvanica 



A yellow spot in front of eye and nowhere else nigrescens 



A white spot at base of primaries (almost never wanting) cmrulescens 



Throat definitely yellow, belly white, back with no greenish dominica, d. albilora or grades 



Rump, sides of breast, crown and throat more or less yellow auduboni 



Rump, sides of breast, and crown more or less yellow ; throat white coronata 



Wing-bars white, tail-spots oblique, at end of two outer feathers only vigorsi 



Tail-spots at middle of nearly all the feathers, rump and belly yellow maculosa 



Wing-bars brownish, tail-spots square, at end of two outer feathers only .... palmarum and p. hypochrysea 



Wing-bars not very conspicuous, whole under parts yellow, back with no greenish kirtlandi 



Tail-spots at end of nearly all the feathers, and no definite yellow anywhere rara 



Throat, breast, and sides black or with black traces, sides of head with diffuse yellow, outer tail-feather white-edged 



externally virens, chrysoparia, townsendi, or occidentalis 



Throat yellow or orange, crown with at least a trace of a central yellow or orange spot, and outer tail-feather white- 

 edged externally blackbumice 



BiU ordinary ; and with none of the foregoing special marks striata or castanea 



(Subgenus PerissoCtLOSSA.) 

 D. (P.) tisri'na. (Lat. tigrina, striped like a tiger, tigris. Fig. 172.) Cape May War- 

 bler. Adult $ , in spring: Back yellowish-olive, spotted with black ; crown in high plumage 

 I)erfectly black, usually interrupted with olive. Rump, sides 

 of neck nearly meeting across nape, sides of head and entire 

 under parts, bright yellow ; ear-patch orange-brotvn ; a black 

 transocular stripe, cutting off a yellow superciliary stripe ; 

 lower throat and whole breast and sides thickly streaked 

 with black ; yellow of throat sometimes tinged with orange- 

 brown ; that of belly and under tail-coverts pale or whitish. 

 Wing- bars fused in a large white patch, formed by middle 

 coverts and outer webs of most of the greater coverts. 

 Quills and tail-feathers blackish, edged on outer webs with 

 olive ; tail-spots on three outer feathers near their ends, 

 oblique, large on outer feather, diminishing on the next Fio. ill. - Cape May Warbler. (L. 



successively ; bill and feet blackish. The yellow patcli on ^- F"ertes.) 



the rump is conspicuous, and in high plumage that on tlie side of the neck is immaculate 

 and very bright. 9 i in spring : Similar ; lacking the distinctive head markings ; under parts 

 paler and less streaked, tail-spots small or obscure : less white on wing. Young : An insig- 

 nificant-looking bird, resembling an overgrown Ruby-crowned Kinglet, without its crest; 

 obscure greenish-olive above ; rump yellowish ; under parts yellowish-white ; breast and sides 

 with the streaks obscure or obsolete ; little or no white on wings, which are edged with 

 yellowish. Length 5.00-5.50; wing 2.75-2.85 ; tail 2.15-2.25. Eastern N. Am. to Hudson's 



