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bb. Throat yellow or white; ear coverts olive or ashy above, pale below. 



963. H. pinus ^ (L.). Bluk-winged Yellow Warbler. 

 Olive green ; crown and all under parts bright yellow ; wing 

 bars whitish ; loral strip black ; 9 similar. L. 4^. W. 2^. 

 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. 4^. W. 2f. T. 1|. N. Am., rare 

 E. 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 ruJicapiUa 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. 4|. W. 

 2\. T. 2. N.Am.; rare E. (Lat., concealed.) 



966. H. rubricapilla (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. 2^. T. 2. E. N. Am., common. (Lat., ruber, red; 

 capilluSf hair.) 



512. PARULA Bonaparte. (Called Compsothlypix by the A. O. U. 

 because close to the earlier name, Parulus.') 



967. P. americana (L.). Blue Yellow-Backed AVarbler. 

 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. 4|. W. 2i. T. 2. 

 E. N. Am., not rare; very elegant; var. usneae Brewster, N. 



513. DENDROICA Gray. (8ev8pov, tree ; oikco), 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. leucohronchialis (Brewster). Ashy gray ; throat and lower parts white ; wing 

 bands yellow or white; variable. E. U. S., not common; now considered as probably 

 a while 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. 

 (AeuKo?, white ; fip6yxo<;, 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 Rtdgway, N. Am. Birds, p. 486.) 



