212 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



P. carbonata. No ^\-liite patches on tai]-feather,«. 



No chestnut about head. Two bands on the wing, the anterior one 

 white, the posterior yellow. Outer web of lateral tail-feather whitish. 



Perissoglossa tigrina, Baird. 



CAPE MAY WAKBLEE. 



micls W. Am. 1858, 286. — Sclater, Catal. 1861, 33, no 198 • P Z S ISfil "i 



r; 86^ \M'(cZ ^ \ T ?'" °" '"'*'^"^ "' tongue). -G..B.ACH, Cab. 

 Am. Buds 1864, 181. Sylvia marUtraa, Wilson, Am. Orn. VI, 1812, 99 pi liv 

 1840, 70, pi. X. ^z//t,zco^« ,„ar. Jard., Bon., Aud. Birds Am. II, pi. Ixxxv Certhi 



?■ M ''':, /u"j'T "'"*"' ''''^''^' '"^ ''''^'^*'^'^'^^ ^"••"'^^^- 2i" '^"d feet black. Upper 

 part of head dull black, sonie of the feathers faintly margined with light yellowish-brown 

 Col ar scarcely meetn.g behind ; rump and under parts generally rich yellow. Throat for" 

 part of breast, and sides, streaked with black. Abdomen and lower tail-coverts pai; ye - 

 ou , brighter about the vent. Ear-coverts light reddish-chestnut. Back part of a yel ow 

 hue from nostrils over the eye of this same color ; chin and throat tinged also with t. A 

 bkck hne Irom commissure through the eye, and running into the chestnut of the ear- 



Xduskv 6:r 'f^ °^"n'' ''^ '"'''' ^^' ^^"' >-"--'^l-^^- ; the former spotted 

 with dusky. One row of small coverts, and outer bases of the secondary coverts form a 

 large patch of white, tinged with pale yellow. Tertials rather broadly ed^ed with brown 

 .sl>^hite. Quills and tail dark brown, the three outer feathers of the lattefllrldy mTrd 

 Avith White on the inner web; edge of the outer web of the outer feathers white more 

 perceptible towards the base. Length, 5.25 ; wing, 2.84; tail 2.15 



Femal^ Above olivaceous-ash, most yellowish' on rump;' no black nor chestnut on 

 head. Wing-coverts inconspicuously edged with whitish. Tail-spots very inconspicuous. 

 Beneath c ul white tinged with yellowish on the breast, and streaked "as in the male 

 but with dusky grayish instead of black. ' 



Hab Eastern Province of United States, north to Lake Wmnipec, and Moose Factory 

 all the W est Indies to St. Croix. Breeds in Jamaica. Not recorded from Mexico or Cen- 

 tral America. 



The chestnut about the head in adult males varies in amount with the 

 individual; sometimes (as in 20,633, May, Moose Factory, Hudson's Bay Ter- 

 ritory) there ^s an oblong spot of chestnut in the middle of the crown but 

 generally tins is absent. Very frequently the chestnut tinges the tliroat. ' All 

 Miriations m these respects appear, however, to be individual, and not de- 

 pendent at all on locality. West Indian specimens appear to be absolutely 

 identical with those from North America. 



Autumnal specimens are browner, the chestnut markings much obscured. 



Habits. This somewhat rare species, so far as its history and distribution 

 are known with certainty, is migratory in the principal portions of the United 



