614 iVOJJr// AMERICAN BIRDS. 



winter grayish brown above, brownish buffy 

 white beneath (usually tinged with yellow on 

 breast. Young : Above plain dull brownish ; 

 beneath pale dull grayish brown, or brownish 

 white ; wing-coverts edged with light brown- 

 ish. Length 4.95-5.60, wing 2.70-3.00, tail 

 2.10-2.45. Nest in trees in high woods, usu- 

 ally at considerable height. -EV/y.s .C9 X ■^'■i, 

 dull white, grayish white, or dull purplish 

 white, speckled or spotted with madder- 

 brown and lilac-gray, usually most heavily 

 round larger end. JIab. Eastern United 

 States, north to Ontai'io and New Bruns- 

 wick ; wintering in more southern States 

 and Bahamas ; Bermudas. 



C71. D. vigorsii (Aud.). Pine Warbler. 

 f. Wing without any distinct white bands. 



g^. Back conspicuously streaked with black. 



Adult male: Upper parts, including sides of 

 bead and neck, bluish gray or plumbeous, 

 the back more brownish gray, and broadly 

 streaked with black ; wings and tail black, 

 with brownish gray edgings ; lores and nar- 

 row frontal band black ; a white spot on each 

 eyelid ; lower parts plain j-ellow (varj-ing in 

 tone from " primrose" to " King's" j-ellow), 

 fading into white on chin and under tail- 

 coverts, the sides streaked with black. Adult 

 female: Essentially like male, but gray of 

 head, neck, rump, etc., much duller, lores dull 

 grayish, and yellow of lower parts paler, tbo 

 chest sometimes (in younger specimens?) 

 sparsely speckled with dusky. Young in 

 first autumn: Similar to adult female, but 

 above everj-whero decidedly browner gray, 

 lores light brown or grayish, lateral lower 

 parts tinged with brown, and the chest 

 always (?) speckled with duskj-. Length 

 about 5.30-G.nO, wing 2.G0-2.90, tail 2.25- 

 2.50. Hah. Eastern United States (Ohio, 

 Michigan, Wisconsin, Jlinnesota, Missouri, etc.), 

 during migrations, Bahamas, in winter; sum- 

 mer residence unknown. 



670. D. kirtlandi (Baird). Kirtland's 

 Warbler. 



