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The wfnfi;s arc usually much lono;cr than the tail, the tips reaching wheii 

 folded a iittie beyond its middle. Liit in some spcci( s, as in the Connecticut 

 Warbler, they are longer than this, Avhile in the ^laryland Yellow-throat and 

 other species of the genus to which this bird belongs, the wings are shortev 

 than the tail, and the tips of the folded wdngs do not reach its middle. 



The wings are never pointed, the first four quills varying but Itttle in 

 length ( See Fig. 2, where I give a figure of the primaries of the Yellow-rump- 

 ed Warbler) but in the non-migi-ating species of the Ground Warblers which 

 inhabit the Bahamas, the wings are so decidedly rounded that the first and 

 eighth primaries are about eqnal in length, the second is about equal to the 

 sixth, while the thiirl, fourth and fifth are eqnal in length. ( See Fig. 2 B, 

 where I have given a cut of the tips of the primaries of the Greater Bahama 

 YeOow -throat, Geothlrpis rostrata ) . 



Fig. 2. Fio. 3. 



A, primiries of Greater Bahama. A, base of primaries of YeUow-rumped 'War- 



Yell ow-lhr oat. B, primiriSB of Yel- blcr. B, Wing «f Connectisat WarbleT, 



lowr-rsmp«d Wirbler. 



As in thf Sparron s and Finefies, the ?ong primaries are nine, but there 

 are really eleven primaries, the two first being much shortened, and are found 

 gro"wingover thefii'st and second long quill. See Fig. 3, A w^here I give a cut 

 of the base of tlie prin"iaries c»fa Yellow- rumiped Warbler with the two s]>uri- 

 ou.s, OT shortenecl prini;n"ies bent on tward at O . 



The secondaries; aix- never as long as the longest pi-hnaiies. They are as 

 long as the ninth primairy, however, in the Parula Warbler and ixmte other 

 genera and sjx.'cies, but in the Coiirnecticut Warbler ainc! Black and White 

 ■Creeper, they fall decickxUy shcjit of the ninth primary, while in most, ot all, of 

 the Ground Wc\rf)Iers, ( Gfeothlypis ) they a little exceed! it in length. Thus 

 they are jjioportionately longest in the Connecticut and alJied species, and' 

 proportionately shortent in the Grwmd WarbHers. ( See Fig. 3 B , where I 

 j^ve the tip of the ^^intjof tte Comiecticiit, and contiast with Fig". 2 A^ where 

 is given the tip of the w-ingcrf'tbe Greater Bahama YelJow-thyoat. ) 



The tan is often sligMy emai-ginate, ( See Fig. 4 A, where I give the tip of 

 the tail of a XashviUe Waihler ) but is sonsetimes stjuare, as in the Cape ]May 



