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washed with bright yellow, the edge of the wing bright yellow ; 

 quiUs ashy brown below, whitish along the inner web : " biU blackish 

 above, paler below ; feet flesh-coloured ; iris brown " (Audubon). 

 Total length 4*9 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-6, tail 2-15, tarsus 

 0-75. 



Adult hi winter plumage. Similar to the summer plumage and 

 equally bright ; the black on the throat and head slightly fringed 

 with yellow margins to the feathers. 



Adidt female and yoimg male. Have the black colour restricted 

 or interrupted, if not wholly wanting, as it is in the earlier stages, 

 when the parts concerned are simply coloured to correspond with 

 the upper and under surfaces of the bird. The hood is said not to 

 be perfected till the third year, and to be finally acquired, in the 

 fulness of its extent, if not in the purity of the black, by the female. 

 {Coues.) 



Toung in winter. Coloured like the adults and quite as bright, 

 but with no black on the head and throat, the latter being bright 

 yellow like the ear-coverts ; the frontal patch of yellow is present, 

 but is obscured by olive tips to all the feathers ; in front of the eye 

 a dusky spot. 



Rah. Eastern United States, rather southerly ; north regularly 

 to the Middle States and the Connecticut Valley, perhaps casually 

 to Massachusetts, west to Kansas ; breeds at large in the United- 

 States range (Coues). Winters in South-eastern Mexico, Yucatan, 

 and Guatemala, a few birds wandering as far as the Isthmus of 

 Panama (Salvin and Godman). Bermudas, Cuba, and Jamaica. 



a. [ (J ] ad. sk. North America (Bell). Sclater CoU&ction. 



b. c? ad. sk. Eockport, Ohio.' Prof. J. P. Kiitland [P.]. 



c. c? ad. sk. Rockport, Oliio, May 20. Salviu-Godman CoU. 



d. J ad. sk. Chicago, Illinois, May 5 R. B. Sharoe, Esq. rP.l. 



(H. K. Coale). 



e. 2 ad. sk. CahoMe River, Illinois, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. fP.l. 



May 24 (H. K. Coale). 



f. (S ad. sk. Elmore County, Alabama, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



April o (N. ft Broion). 



g. c? ad. sk. Wheatland, Indiana, Mav U.S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 



10 ( R. Eidffwai/). 

 h. 5 ad. sk. Fort Leavenworth, July 13 Salvin-Godman CoU. 



(J. G. Cooper), 

 i. $ hiem. sk. Belize, British Hondm-as, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Dec. 14 (O. S.). 

 k. cJ ad. sk. Belize (Blancaneaux). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/, m. J ad. sk. N. Yucatan (F. Gaumer). Salvin-Godman CoU. 

 n, 0. Imm. hiem. Guatemala. Gould CoUection. 



sk. 

 p. d ad. sk. Choctum, Vera Paz (O.-S.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



q. cJ ad. sk. Panama (McLeannan). Salvin-Godman CoU. 



