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In the second edition of the Birds of Eastern North America, page 599^ 

 I have stated that I did not consider the characters used for the separation of 

 the Cape May Warbler from the genus Dendorica of sufficient value to warrant 

 raising the bird to generic rank. A uTore careful study of the American War- 

 blers, especially in regard to the origin of species and foims, has led me to dif- 

 ferent conclusions as expressed above. 



CAPE MAY WARBLER. 



Perisso8•lo.s^^a tij^riiia. 



Plate I, Fig, 3, male : Fig. 4, female. 



Siz;e, 4.70 to 5.50. Dusky olive above; top of head 

 black. Rump and under parts bright gamboge yellow, the 

 latter streaked on sides with black. Patch on side of head 

 chestnut. Broad wing band white. 



Migrating about May through Southern, to breed in 

 Northern, New Enorland. Rare in the eastern sections. 



jNIale. Above greenish, with top of head black, and back streaked with 

 black. Rump, line over eye, and under parts, excepting abdomen, which is- 

 white, yellow. Streaked on throat, breast and sides with black, ear coverts,, 

 chestnut, and there is a tinge of this color on the throat and a line over eye : 

 wings brown, edged with greenish, and there is a broad, white patch on the 

 wing coverts. There is a white spot, a little less than three quarters of an 

 inch long on the inner Aveb of outer tail feather (See Fig, 23, b ) which does not,, 

 however, extend to the tip of the feather. There is a shorter spot on the sec- 

 ond feather and a smaller patch on the third. 



Female. Grayish olive above, with rump slightly yellow. Beneath, 

 grayish white, tinged with yellow, someMhat indistinctly streaked with dusky. 

 Four outer tail feathers are spotted with white, and this is not as extended as- 

 in the male. 



Young and Adilts. In autumn, much obscured by grayish and yel- 

 lowish suffusions, and the female is often without a trace of yellow. 



Dimensions. Length, 4.20 : stretch, 8.11 ; wing, 2.10 : tail, 1.85 : bill. 

 .50 ; tarsus, .95. 



CoMrAiiisoNS. The adults of this fine Warbler stand so completely sepa- 

 rated from all others that there is no need of comparisons. The chestnut 

 patch on the sides of the head and conspicuously streaked under parts, are 

 sufficient to identify the males. The adult females somewhat resemble those 



