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yellow, with a distinct dusky line separating the cheeks from the 

 throat, the cheeks streaked. with chestnut ; the fore neck and hreast 

 streaked with chestnut ; sides of the body and flanks dusky olive with 

 chestnut streaks ; lower abdomen dull whitish ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries j'ellow, the greater series of coverts whitish, washed 

 with yellow ; quills dusky below, ashy along the edge of the inner web. 

 Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 0*5, wing 2-7, tail 2-15, tarsus 0-75. 



Adult male in tuinter plumage. Browner than in summer, the 

 olive-yellow of the rump, upper tail-coverts, and margins of 

 tail-feathers brighter ; the chestnut crown overshaded with ashy 

 brown ; ear-coverts and sides of neck brown, the latter mixed with 

 yellow; eyelid, eyebrow, and nuder surface of body pale bright 

 yellow, streaked with chestnut on the fore neck, but not so plainly 

 as in the summer dress, the chestnut being shaded with ashy ; the 

 wing-coverts edged with pale ochreous brown. 



Adult female. Browner than the male and without the yellowish- 

 olive tinge on the back ; the chestnut on the crown paler and not so 

 extended, reaching only to the occiput ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 brighter olive-yellow ; eyebrow and under surface of body paler 

 yeUow than the male, and more narrowly streaked with dusky, a 

 slight tinge of chestnut ; the white on the outer tail-feathers smaller. 

 Total length 4-8 inches, culmen 0*5, wing 2*5, tail 2, tarsus 0'8. 



Young in winter plumage. Brown above, the head brown like the 

 back ; under surface of body dull white, the throat yellowish, 

 streaked with brown on the throat, fore neck, and sides of the body ; 

 the lower flanks and under tail-coverts saft'ron-yellow. The chest- 

 nut head is donned by some specimens before leaving their winter- 

 quarters ; but others arrive in their summer-quarters in the brown 

 plumage, a female collected at Kenwood, Illinois, on the 8th of 

 Maj', just commencing to moult the chestnut feathers on the head. 



Ilah. Mississippi valley during the migrations ; breeding in the 

 interior of British America, wintering in the Gulf States, from 

 Texas to Western and Southern Florida and West Indies (Cuba, 

 Jamaica, San Domingo, and the Bahamas) ; casual in certain 

 Atlantic States {Eidgway). The race which Mr. Eidg-nay caD.8 

 D. hypoeliyscca is found in " the Atlantic States from East Florida 

 (in winter) to Nova Scotia, breeding in Maine and northward, and 

 wintering in the south Atlantic States ; apparently not found at all 

 in the West Indies, nor in Southern and Western Florida." 



(', li- d 2 ^^- sk. North America. Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk. North America. J. Gould, Esq. 



d. cJ ad. sk. Pennsylvania (U. Wilson). Sclater CVillectiou. 



e. cJ ad. bieni. sk. Wasbiugtou, 1).C. {McChdrc). Sclater CoUectiun. 

 /. $ ad. sk. Glenville, Maryhmd, Apiil 24 K. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



{H. K. Coafe). [P.]. 



y. d ad. sk. Michigan, May 15 (H. K. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Cu(de). [P.]. 



h. (S juv. sk. Colehour, IlHnois, Oct. 2 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



{H. K. Cuale). [P.]. 



i. (S ad. sk. Wood Lawu, Illinois, April 30 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(H. K. Coale). [P.]. 



k. $ ad. sk. Kenwood, Illinois, May b R. B. Sharpe, Esq, 



{H. K. Coale). [?•]• 



