330 S VS TEMA TIC S YNOPSIS. — PA SSERES — OSCINES. 



side of crown, meeting its fellow on forehead. A broad superciliary line of yellow, confluent 

 with its fellow on the extreme front, changing to white behind eye. Lores blackish ; sides of 

 head otherwise like back, enclosing a crescentic yellow spot below eye ; edges of eyelids yel- 

 low. Chin, throat, and fore breast bright yellow, bordered with blackish streaks; yellow of 

 thnjat separate from that under eye or on lores. Under parts from breast white ; sides shaded 

 with color of back, and streaked with black in continuation of the chain of shorter streaks 

 along side of neck. Wings dusky, with very narrow whitish edging, and crossed with two white 

 bars along ends of greater and median coverts. Tail like wings ; lateral feather mostly white, 

 excepting outer web ; next two or three with white blotches, decreasing in size. Eyes, bill, 

 and feet black ; soles dirty yellowish. Length 4.90-5.25 ; extent about 8.00; wing 2.60; tail 

 2.25 ; bill under 0.50. ^, in autumn : Color of upper parts obscured with a shade of brownish- 

 olive ; dorsal streaks obscure ; head-markings as in summer, and yellow parts quite as bright. 

 Adult 9: Quite similar to ^, in fact scarcely distinguishable in autumn, though the yellow is 

 not quite so strong. Young; Slate-gray of upper parts much shaded with brownish-olive; 

 black streaks wanting on back, those on crown obsolete ; yellow much as in the adult but 

 paler, and not bordered along sides of neck with black streaks; black lores poorly defined; 

 wing-bars grayish or obsolete. The white of the under parts has an ochrey tinge, and the 

 lateral streaks are not so heavy in color nor so well defined. Southern Rocky Mt. region of the 

 U. S. and southward; a beautiful species, related to dominica and adelaidce ; abundant in pine 

 woods of Arizona and New Mexico. Nest high in a coniferous tree, usually in a bunch of 

 needles, of the usual materials; eggs 3-4, not peculiar, white dotted with reddish ; May, June. 

 D. domin'ica. (Lat. dominicus, of St. Domingo. Fig. 188.) Yellow-throated War- 

 bler. Much like the last species, with which its changes of plumage correspond ; back without 



black streaks; no yellow in the black under eye. A 

 white patch separating black of cheeks from bluish - 

 ash of neck; a long superciliary stripe, usually yel- 

 low from bill to eye, thence white to nape. Forehead 

 and sides of crown usually quite black, chin and throat 

 rich yellow, bordered on each side by black. Rest 

 of under parts white, the sides boldly streaked with 

 black. Bill black, extremely compressed, almost a 

 little decurved, very long (at least 0.50). Length 

 5.00 or more; extent 8.00; wing 2.70; tail 2.25. 

 A large handsome species, with its bright yellow 

 throat. S. Atlantic and Gulf States, conunon ; N. 

 Fig. 188. — Yellow-throated Warbler. (L. A. Sometimes to Middle States, casually to New Eng- 

 ■^'""^*'^^-) land. Breeds in its U. S. range at large; winters in 



Florida and the West Indies. Nest in trees, usually pines, at varying height, often hidden in 

 bunches of Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides), composed of the usual materials; eggs 0.70 

 X 0.50, white with a greenish or grayish tinge, and marked with the usual shades of brown 

 and neutral tint, especially about the larger end. 



D. d. albilo'ra. (Lat. (dbiis, white ; lorum, the lore.) AVhite-brow^ed Warbler. Syca- 

 more Warbler. Precisely like the last ; but superciliary stripe usually white, and yellow 

 of chin cut off from bill by white; bill smaller on an average (0.45 instead of 0.50 along cul- 

 men). This slight variety (considering how variable dominica is in amount of yellow in the 

 superciliary line) is the common form of the Mississippi and Ohio valley, N. regularly to Ohio, 

 Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, etc., W. to Kansas and Texas, S. in winter to Mexico and Cen- 

 tral America. 



T>. kirt'landi. (To Dr. Jured P. Kirtland, of Ohio. Fig. 189.) Kirtland's Warbler. 

 Adult ^: Upper parts slaty-blue; crown and back streaked with black; lores and frontlet 



