3-t2 WOOD WARBLERS. 



2. Belly yellow. 

 A. Throat slate-color ; haunts near the ground. 



a. Breast showing traces of black, no white eye-ring: rare in most 

 places 679. Mourning Warbler. 



b. Breast with no traces of black, a white eye-ring ; call a sharp 

 peeh ; veiy rare in the spring . . 678. Connecticut Warbler. 



£. Throat black. 



a. Forehead and crown yellow, wings with white bars, a black 

 line through the eye ; very rare. 



641 + 642. Lawrence's Warbler. 



b. Forehead and cheeks yellow, rest of the head and sides of tlic 

 neck black ; outer tail-feathers almost entirely white ; haunts near 

 the ground, generally in wet woods ; movements active, the white 

 tail-feathers showing conspicuously in flight; lower Hudson Val- 

 ley southward ; common 684. Hooded Warbler. 



c. Forehead yellow, a small black patch on the crown, white patches 

 on the tail not reaching to the ends of the feathers ; range, South 

 Carolina southward 640. Bachman's Warbler. 



HI. Throat yellow or orange, under parts "with streaks. 

 (In one species a blackish brown band across the 

 breast.) 



1. Belly white, with or without black streaks. 



a. Throat rich orange; back, black streaked with white; tolerably 

 common 662. Blackburnian Warbler. 



b. Throat bright yellow, back grayish; range, Virginia southward; 

 abundant 663. Yellow-throated Warbler. 



663a. Sycamore Warbler. 



c. Throat yellow, with a blackish band crossing the upper part of the 

 breast ; abundant 648. Parula Warbler. 



2. Belly yellow, with streaks or spots on the breast or sides. 

 A. With black streaks or spots on the under parts. 



a. Back grayish, unstreaked ; a necklace of black spots on the breast ; 

 no streaks on the sides or white on the wings or tail ; common. 



686. Canadian Warbler. 



b. Back black, crown grayish, a black stripe through the eye; breast 

 and sides streaked with black ; end of tail black, a white band 

 across its middle ; common .... 657. Magnolia Warbler. 



c. Back streaked with white, center of the crown and line over the 

 eye orange 662. Blackburnian Warbler. 



d. Back greenish, streaked with black ; crown black, a rufous ear- 

 patch, a white patch on the wings, rump yellow; rare. 



650. Cape May Warbler. 



e. Back greenish, with a patch of rufous-brown; haunts second 

 growths and old bush-grown pastures ; common in some places. 



673. Prairie Warbler. 

 /. Back grayish, streaked with black ; crown bluish ; no conspicuous 

 white marking on the wings ; very rare in the United States. 



670. Kirtland's Warbler. 



