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Mai.i:. Elack above, narrowly streaked with white. Top of head witRj 

 conspicuous central white stripe, and there is a white line back of eye, ex- 

 tending to nape, and the tertiaries are broadly marg-inod with white. White 

 beneath, broadly streaked on throat, sometimes fbrm-ing- a jmtch, breast, sides„ 

 and under tail coverts, with black : inner webs of wings broadly margined 

 with w^hite, so that the wing appears nearly white beneath as the bird flies. 

 Two outer tail feathers, Avith a terminal white spot whreh is confined to the in- 

 ner web. See Fig. 23, A. 



Female. Similar, but duller, with not as much black either above or be- 

 fow, and beneath the white is overwashed with huffy. 



Young of both sexes similar to the females, but with the white above and! 

 below, rather more obscured with rufous. 



Dimensions. Length, 5.25 ; stretch, 8.60 : wing, 2.75 : tail, l.Uo ; bill. 

 ,50 : tarsus, .(10. 



Fig. 1G. Fig. 17. 



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Louisiana Water Tflnisli. 



CoiiPAitisoKS. We h&ve one oiih among our northern Warblers with 

 which this species need be coiTEpared, and that Is a bii'd of wholly different 

 form and habits, but with generally similar colors, the Black- polled Warbler, 

 but this species has the top of the head wholly black, wdthout the white medi- 

 an line, and the sides? of ths lioad are whit?, not black as in the Creep3r. 

 For compariison ^ivith the Jairtuica Arrow-head Warbler, see Synopsis at the 

 end of the Wood Warblers, also sec Figs. 12, 19, and 20. 



Xksts and Eggs. Xests usually placed on the ground, composed of 

 mosses, grasses, and leaves, lined with hue bark, fine grasses and haii% almost 

 always placed near a rock, tree trunk or log, in the woods. 



Eggs, from 3 to 5 in numljer, oval in form, pale bhiish in color, dotted 

 and finely spotted iini?g^iiar]y over the whole surface, but rather more thickly 

 on the large eni with brown and lilac. Tlie fine spottings over the cntii'e sur- 

 face are the chief characteristics. 



DimeusioRS, .70 by .50 to .80 by .5G. 



