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for on lifting the feathers of the forehead and sides of the head, 

 the bUick of the next summer plumage can be seen below, showing 

 that these "Warblers, like the Eedstarts of the Old "World, gain 

 their adult plumage by the shedding of the ti])s of their winter 

 plumage, instead of by a direct spring moult. "Whether this is 

 the case with the yellow plumage of the breast I am unable to say 

 from lack of specimens, but I fancy that no moult takes place on the 

 under sui'face. 



Young. Similar to the adult female, but the olive of the upper 

 parts with much of a brownish tinge ; the yeUow parts and, in fact, 

 most of the underparts, quite buff}-. (Cones.) 



A nestling, from Mr. H. K. Coale's collection, is much browner 

 than the adult female, and shows olive only on the wiugs and tail, 

 the head being more dusky than the back ; wing-coverts brown 

 like the back, the greater coverts with reddish-brown tips forming a 

 bar ; throat and chest dull ochreous-buff, the abdomen light buffj- 

 yellow, the sides of the body browner. 



Hab. The United States at large, and south through Mexico and 

 Central America ; several of the "West Indies, as Cuba, Jamaica, 

 and the Bahamas ; breeds thi'oughout its United-States range, and 

 winters from the southern border southward {Goues). Throughout 

 Central America from Mexico to Panama (S. 4" G.). 



a. S ad. St. North America. Pm-chased. 



b. 5 ad.sk. 49thparallel, Aug. 9((?. N. A. Boundary Com- 



Datcscm). mission. 



c. (f; <^- 2 ad.sk. Michigan. Dr. Steere [P.]. 



c, Juv. ; /. $ ad. sk. Lidiana, July {H. K. R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. [P.]. 



Coale). 

 g, h. S ? ad. sk. HvdePark,nimois,May E. B. Shai-pe, Esq. [P.]. 



XH. K. Coale). 

 i. (S imm. sk. Colehour, 111., Sept. {H. R. B. Shai-jie, Esq. [P.]. 



K. Coale). 

 k. 6 ad. sk. Colehour, El., May 19 E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



(S. K. Coale). 



1. (S ad. sk. Maiyland, May {E. U.S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 



Coiies). 

 m. 2 juv. sk. St. Regis Lake, N.Y., U.S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 



Aug. 21 {Roosevelt). 

 7i. c? ad. sk. Eock Creek, B.C., April Salvin-Godman Coll. 



■2Q (E. Coues). 

 0. 5ad.sk. "VS^ashington, D.C.,May Salvin-Godman CoU. 



5 {E. Corns). 

 p. q. cJ 2 ad. sk. British Cohmibia. J. K. Lord, Esq. [C.]. 



r,s. cJ; t,u. 2 ad. sk. "West side of Eocky J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.]. 



Mountains. 

 V, tc, 'I'. [ c? ] 5 y- [ 2 ] Oahfornia. Lord "VN^alsingham [P.]. 



hiem. sk. 



2. 2 ad. sk. Presidio, Mexico, Jan. 5 Salvin-Godman CoU. 



{A. Forrer). 

 a'. (5 ad. sk. Presidio, Mexico, Mai'ch Salvin-Godman CoU. 



22 {A. Fm-rer). 

 h'. 5ad.hiem.sk. South Mexico (i)e Oe«). Sclater Collection. 



c', d'. J ad. hiem. sk. N. Yucatan (6r. F. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Gaumer). 



