308 MNIOTILTIDiE. 



edged with dull olive ; quills dusky brown, edged with olive, the 

 primaries margiued with ashy whitish ; upper tail-coverts ashy 

 olive ; tail-feathers blackish, edged with olive, the outermost for 

 the greater part white, with a base of dark brown to the iuner web, 

 the shaft brown, widening out towards the end of the outer web ; 

 the penidtimate feather similarly marked, but the white more re- 

 stricted, and the third feather with^ouly a small patch near the end 

 of the inner web ; head and neck olive-yellow, the base of the forehead 

 washed with golden yellow ; ear-coverts and sides of neck olive- 

 yellow ; a band of golden yellow extending from the base of the 

 nostrils to above the ear-coverts ; a loral streak of black as well as 

 a small spot behind the eye and the anterior and posterior edge of 

 eyehd ; upper and under edge of eyelid golden yeUow, as well as a 

 large patch below the eye ; cheeks with a broad streak of black ; 

 the hinder cheeks and sides of neck and entire under surface of 

 body brilliant golden yellow, paler on the under tail-coverts, which 

 are whitish washed with yellow ; the sides of the breast broadly 

 streaked with black, forming long streaks, especially broad on the 

 sides of the upper breast ; thighs golden yellow ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts golden yellow, brighter along the edge of the wing ; 

 quills dusky, white along the edge of the inner web ; bill brown, 

 pale at the margin : " feet and claws dark brown ; iris dark hazel " 

 (Audubon). Total length 4-5 inches, culmeu 0*45, wing 2-3, tail 1*85, 

 tarsus 0-7. 



Adult male in ivinter plumage. Brighter olive-yellow than in the 

 summer plumage, the chestnut mantle entirely obscured with the 

 oUve-yellow of the back, which is therefore quite uniform ; other- 

 wise as in summer. 



Adult female in breeding -plumage. Diflfers from the male in being 

 less richly coloured and in having the sides of the body less broadly 

 streaked with black, the chestnut mottling on the back less distinct 

 than in the male. Total length 4-6 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-15, 

 taU 1"8, tarsus 0'7. 



Young in autumn plumage. Much duller than the adult female, 

 to which there is a general resemblance ; the centre of the back 

 olive, with a faint rufous tinge on the feathers of the mantle ; head 

 dull ohve-yellow, washed with ashy ; supraloral streak ashy whitish ; 

 sides of face brighter yellow, the upper edge of the ear- coverts ashy 

 grey ; cheek-stripe dusky blackish ; under surface of body dull 

 yellow, the black stripes on the sides of the body indistinctly indi- 

 cated ; white on tail much less developed, the third feather showing 

 merely a small spot on the inner web. 



Eah. Eastern United States, north to southern New England, 

 west to Kansas ; breeding throughout its United-States range ; 

 winters in Florida {Coues), and probably in British Honduras. 

 Antilles, Cuba, to Virgin Islands {8. ^ G.). 



a. Ad. sk. Pennsylvania {Baird). Sclater Collection. 



6. 5ad.sk. St. Louis, Missouri, May 23 R. B. Sharpe,Esq. [P.]. 



{H. K. Coale). 

 c. cJ ad. sk. Belmont, Mass., May 14 R. B. Sharpe,Esq. [P.]. 



{H. K. Coale). 



