102 SYLVICOLIDEH, WARBLERS.—GEN. 35. 
black loral crescent obscure or wanting; chestnut streaks thinner. Young: 
above, including the crown, clear yellowish-green, perfectly uniform, or 
back with slight dusky touches ; no distinct head-markings ; below, entirely 
white from bill to tail, unmarked, or else showing a trace of chestnut 
streaks on the sides; wing-bands clear yellow as in the adult; this is a 
diagnostic feature, shared by no other species, taken in connection with the 
continuously white under parts; bill light colored below. 5-54, wing 24, 
tail 2. Eastern United States; abundant in woodland. Wrus., i, 99, pl. 
14. f. 5; Nurr., 1, 380; Aup., ii, 35, pl. 81; Bp., 279. PENNSYLVANICA. 
Black and Yellow Warbler. Magnolia Warbler. @g in spring: back 
black, the feathers more or less skirted with olive; rump yellow; crown 
clear ash, bordered by black in front to the eyes, 
behind the eyes by a white stripe ; forehead and sides 
of head black, continuous with that of the back, 
enclosing the white under eyelid ; entire under parts 
(except white under tail coverts) rich yellow, thickly 
streaked across the breast and along the sides with 
<i. Black and Yellow Dlack, the pectoral streaks crowded and cutting off 
warnles the definitely bounded immaculate yellow throat 
from the yellow of the other under parts; wing-bars white, generally fused 
into one patch ; tail spots small, rectangular, at the middle of the tail and on 
all the feathers excepting the central pair; bill black, feet brown. ¢, in 
spring, quite similar; black of back reduced to spots in the grayish-olive ; 
ash of head washed with olive; other head-markings obscure, black streaks 
below smaller and fewer. Young, quite different ; upper parts ashy-olive, 
still grayer on the head; no head-markings whatever, and streaks below 
wanting, or confined to a few small ones along the sides; but always 
known by the yellow rump in connection with extensively or completely 
yellow under parts (except white under tail coverts) and small tail spots 
near the middle of all the feathers except the central. Small; 5 or less, 
wing 24, tail 2. Eastern United States; a dainty little species, abundant 
in woodland. S. magnolia Wuts., iii, 63, pl. 23. S. maculosa, Nutr., 
L005 LADS; 115 °65;¢pl.-96)5\ Bpe,) 284: 1 ot. AE eee ee. eA OUOR AS 
Cape May Warbler. @ in spring: back yellowish-olive, with dark 
spots; crown blackish, more or less interrupted with brownish; ear-patch 
orange-brown; chin, throat, and posterior portion of a yellowish superciliary 
line tinged with the same; a black loral line; rwmp and under parts rich 
yellow, paler on belly and crissum, the breast and sides streaked with black ; 
wing-bars fused into a large whitish patch; tail-blotches large, on three 
pairs of rectrices; bill and feet black. ¢ in spring is somewhat similar, 
but lacks the distinctive head-markings ; the under parts are paler and less 
streaked; the tail-spots small or obscure; the white on the wing less. 
Young: an insignificant-looking. bird, resembling an overgrown ruby- 
crowned kinglet, without its crest; obscure greenish-olive above, rump olive- 
yellow, under parts yellowish white; breast and sides with the streaks 
