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d. Wood Warblers. Dendroica. 



Wings and tail longer than c ; under tail coverts reach- 

 ing middle of tail, upper shorter; wing bands (two) and tail 

 spots present ; sexes, quite similar, both with conspicuous 

 yellow patches. Origin of group, Mexico. 



1. YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER, D. coronata. 

 5.50; slaty-blue above; white beneath, streaked on back, and 

 broadly on breast and sides Fig. 312. 



with b 1 ack ; yellow patch- 

 es on rump, sides and crown, 

 fig. 312. Female and winter 

 male brownish above and 

 duller. Breeds from the 

 mountains of western Mass. 

 and in about the same lat- 

 itude west to the Rockies 

 north to Labrador and west- 

 ern Alaska ; winters from 

 the southern coast of Me. CC, H, d,l. 1-4. 



and southern 111. south to the Bahamas, West Indies, and 

 Central America; north in April; south in Sep. and Oct. Yery 

 abundant; found everywhere. Song, a low warble of four or 

 five notes. 



2. AUDUBON'S WARBLER, D. auduboni. Differs 

 from 1 in having the throat yellow and less black on side of 

 head. Western N. A. : accidental in Mass. and Penn. 



e. Honey Warblers. Perissoglossa. 



Bill, very sharp, slender, and slightly curved at tip ; wings, 

 long, pointed, folding beyond middle of tail ; upper tail cov- 

 erts, reaching middle of tail ; under tail coverts reaching be- 

 yond middle ; white spots on tail ; wing bands, enlarged to a 

 patch ; yellow beneath and on rump. Ancestral origin. West 

 Indies. 



