110 ASHT WAKBT.EliS. 



ted States east of the Great Plains. It arrives in MassacliUi«- 

 etts the first week in May, but lingers in autumn rather later 

 than many of our warblers, often until the latter part of Octo- 

 ber, and it has been found two or three times in eastern Mass- 

 achusetts in winter. 



Genus. ASHY WARBLERS. Cinerosa 



iiize, uiiiloiiu, J).n<». Colors, oliv<' aboAo; tlsroat and l)rea>st, 

 sisliy iiiixtd witli black; remaining: under part.s, yellow. No winjj 

 bands or tail .spots. 



Bill, shorter than head. Wings of medium length; when 

 folded the tips reach beyond the base of the tail, but not be- 

 yond its middle, not rounded, the four outer quills being about 

 the same length. Tail, somewhat rounded, with the under cov- 

 erts leaching beyond its middle. Sternum, much as in Geoth- 

 /]'/>/>■, with a low keel and long coracoids. Two known spe- 

 cies occur in temperate North America, of which one breeds 

 in northern New England. 



Fig. 47. 



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'MoniTiiiig AVarbler. 



Members of this genus have usually been placed by authors with the Yellow- 

 throats ( Gcothlypis)., and by Mr. Ridgeway, in his Birds of North and Middle Amer- 

 ica, with the Long-winged Warblers {Oporornis) but I do not see as they can be con^ 

 ^i.^te^lly placed with either group, thus I have Ibrined a separate genus for them. 



