MNIOTILTIDA. — CLXXIII. 299 
6b. Throat yellow or white; ear coverts olive or ashy above, pale below. 
963. H. pinus! (L.). BLUE-wINGED YELLOW WARBLER. 
Olive green; crown and all under parts bright yellow; wing 
bars whitish ; loral strip black; 9 similar. L. 44. W. 23. 
T. 2. E U.S., N. to N. Y; a handsome bird, like a miniature 
Protonotaria. (Lat., pine.) 
aa. Tail feathers without white; no wing bars. 
964. H. peregrina (Wilson). ‘TENNESSEE WARBLER. Olive 
green; head more or less ashy and without crown patch; white or 
slightly yellowish below. L. 44. W. 23. T.13. N.Am.,, rare 
EK. of Ohio; closely resembles the young of the two following, but 
its wings are nearly half longer than the short tail; celata has no 
ashy on head, and ruficapilla is yellower below. 
965. H. celata (Say). ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER. Olive 
green, never ashy on head; crown patch orange brown, more or 
less concealed; greenish yellow below; 9 duller, sometimes without 
crown patch, known from the next by the more olive color of the 
head, which is similar to the back ; belly less yellow. L.43. W. 
21, T.2. N.Am.; rare E. (Lat., concealed.) 
966. H. ruficapilla (Wilson). NASHVILLE WARBLER. Olive 
green, ashy on head and neck, the color contrasting with back ; 
crown patch bright chestnut, more or less concealed ; bright yellow 
below ; lores and orbital ring pale; 9 duller, crown patch obscure. 
L. 4%. W.24. T.2. E.N. Am., common.  (Lat., rufus, red ; 
capillus, hair.) 
512. COMPSOTHLYPIS Cabanis. (Parula Bonaparte; changed 
on account of the earlier Parulus.) (koyyds, comely ; Odumis, 
a little bird or warbler.) 
967. C. americana (L.). BLuE YELLOW-BACKED WARBLER. 
Clear ashy blue ; back with a large golden green patch; yellow be- 
low, belly white; a brown band across breast; white wing bars; 
tail feathers with white; 9 obscurely marked. L. 48. W. 21. T. 2. 
E. N. Am., not rare; very elegant. 
513. DENDROICA Gray. (dédpov, tree ; oikéw, I inhabit.) 
A large genus comprising about 30 species of brightly colored 
little birds, very abundant in the United States during the migra- 
1 H, leucobronchialis (Brewster). Ashy gray ; throat and lower parts white ; wing 
bands yellow or white; variable. E. U.8., not common; now considered as probably 
a white phase of H. pinus, as H. lawrencei is a yellow phase of chrysoptera. It is 
further thought that the two species in both yellow and white condition hybridize. 
(Aevkos, white ; Bpoyxos, throat.) 
H. cincinnatiensis Langdon. Olive green, lores and part of ear coverts black ; 
spot below eye and entire lower parts yellow. Cincinnati ; now regarded, as a hybrid 
of H, pinus and Geothlypis formosus. (See Ridgway, N. Am. Birds, p. 486.) 
