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primary-coverts and quills dusky browu, edged with ashy, the 

 secondaries slightly washed with olive ; upper tail-coverts ashy, 

 elightlv washed with olive-yellow ; tail-feathers dusky brown, edged 

 with ashy, the two outer feathers fringed with white on the outer 

 and inner webs, and having a large wedge-shaped mark of white on 

 the inner web near the end, this mark being much reduced in size 

 on the penultimate feather ; head like the back ; lores dusky blackish; 

 upper and lower edge of eyelid as well as a narrow superciliary 

 line brighter yellow ; ear-coverts olive-yellow, with a dusky blackish 

 streak behind the eye, the ear-coverts streaked with dusky blackish ; 

 below the eye a small patch of bright yellow ; cheeks, throat, and 

 breast bright yellow, a little paler on the latter, mottled with 

 blackish centres to the feathers on the side of the fore neck ; sides 

 of the breast a little more olive ; abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 white, slightly tinged with yellow, the lower flanks and thighs more 

 ashy ; axillaries and under wing-coverts dull white, the former with 

 dusky bases ; quills dark brown below, ashy whitish along the edge 

 of the inner web : " bill brownish black ; feet dusky ; iris hazel " 

 (Aicdubon). ToLal length 4-S inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-9, tail 2-15, 

 tarsus 0'7. 



Adult female. General colour very similar to that of the male, 

 but a little duller and more ashy and not quite so yellow ; nnder- 

 neath, the colour is paler and the yellow does not extend so far 

 down, leaving the entire abdomen dull white : the spots on the sides 

 of the upper breast are not so distinct, being much smaller and 

 less pronounced. Total length 4-8 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-75, 

 tail 2'1, tarsus 0*7. (Mus. Salvin and Godman.) 



Auuumnal males are much like spring individuals, but the yellow 

 beneath is softer and somewhat richer, and the olive above overlaid 

 with a reddish umber tint. (Baird, Brewer, and Ridgwaij.) 



Young. Umber-brown above, and dingy pale ashy beneath, with a 

 slight yellowish tinge on the abdomen ; wing and tail much as in 

 the autumnal adult. (B., B., Sf R.) 



Hah. Eastern province of United States, Canada and New 

 Brunswick, west only to the Lower Missouri and Kansas, &c. : breeds 

 throughout its United-States range, wintering in the Southern States, 

 Bermudas, and Bahamas {Coues). 



a, h. Ad. St. North America. H.R.H. The Duke of 



Sussex [P.], 



c. (5 ad. sk. North America. Purchased. 



d. c? ad. sk. Niagara Falls {J. G.). Gould Collection. 



e 2 iuv. sk. Ovster Bav, Long Island, July 21 U.S. Nat. Museum 

 [Roosevdt). [P.]. 



/■ c? ad. sk. Hyde Pai-k, Illinois, April 26 R. B.' Sharpe, Esq. 

 {H. K. Coaley [P.]. 



(] 9 ad. sk. Chicago, lUinois, May 2 (H. K. E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



^ Coalv). [P.]. 



K cJad.au- Massachusetts (TF. ^/'cwito-). U.S. Nat. Museum 

 tumn. sk. [P.]. 



i. (5 juv. sk. Massachusetts (Henshaw). U.S. Nat. IVEus. [P.]. 



k. $ "ad. sk. Pennsylvania (Baird). Sclater Collection. 



