DENDROICA. 513 



tinged with brownish, es- 

 peciallj' on sides. Young : 

 Above pliiiu asb-graj-; be- 

 neath plain bi-ownish graj-, 

 the belly and lower tail- 

 coverts white. Length 4.70 

 -5.25, wing 2.45-2.70, tail 

 2.10-2.25. JS'est in conifer- 

 ous trees. £ggs .61 x -51, 

 dull white, or grayish white, 

 spotted or blotched with 

 hair-brown, umber, and lilac- 

 gray. I£ab. "Western United 

 States, chiefly near Pacific 

 coast, east during migra- 

 tions to Eoeky Mountains ; 

 south, in winter, to high- 

 lands of Guatemala. 



669. D. occidentalis 



(Towxs.). Hermit 



Warbler. 



g\ Wing-bands distinct only in adult male, and dull 



white or grayish white ; in females and young 



less distinct, and more decidedlj* grayish. 



Adult male : Above plain bright olive-grccn, in- 

 cluding sides of head and neck ; wings and 

 tail dusky grayish, with paler graj-ish edg- 

 ings, the former with two broad dull white or 

 grayish white bands, the latter with much 

 white on terminal portion of inner webs of 

 two outer feathers; streak over lores, eye- 

 lids, chin, throat, chest, and breast (sometimes 

 belly and flanks also), gainboge-3-ellow, the 

 sides of breast more or less distinctlj- streaked 

 •with olive-green ; lower tail-coverts (usually 

 lower belly and hinder flanks also) dull white. 

 Adult female : Above dull olive-graj' or gray- 

 ish olive, the wings and tail much as in male, 

 but bands on former narrower and more de- 

 cidedly graj'ish ; beneath soiled grayish white, 

 the breast usually more or less tinged with 

 yellow, or with anterior half of lower surface 

 pale j^ellow, more or less streaked with olive. 

 Male in irinter with j-ellow richer and upper 

 Darts browner than in summer. Female in 

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