SYLVICOLIDZ, WARBLERS.—GEN. 35. 103 
obscure or obsolete; little or no white on wings, which are edged with 
yellowish; tail-spots very small. 5-54, wing 23, tail 24. Eastern North 
America to Hudson’s Bay; West Indies (where it also breeds). A species 
not very common with us, remarkable for the very acute and somewhat 
decurved bill, and the anatomical peculiarities of the tongue. S. maritima 
Wizs. vi, 99, pl. 54, f. 3; Nurr., i, 371; Aup., 44, pl. 85; D. tégrina 
Bp., 280; Perissoglossa tigrina Bp., Rev. 181... . . . . TIGRINA. 
Prairie Warbler. Yellow-olive: back with a patch of brick-red spots; 
forehead, superciliary line, two wing-bars and entire under parts, rich 
yellow; a V-shaped black mark on side of head, its upper arm running 
through eye, its lower arm connecting with a series of black streaks along 
the whole sides of the neck and body; tail-blotches very large, occupying 
most of the inner web of the outer feathers. The sexes are almost exactly 
alike, and the young only differ in not being so bright, and in having the 
dorsal patch and head-markings obscure. Small; 43-5; wing 24; tail 2. 
Eastern United States, to Massachusetts; an abundant little bird of the 
Middle and Southern States, in sparse low woodland, cedar thickets and old 
fields grown up to scrub-pines ; remarkable for its quaint and curious song ; 
an expert flycatcher, constantly darting into the air in pursuit of winged 
insects, like the redstart and the species of Myiodioctes. sS. minuta Wits., 
iii, 87, pl. 25, f.4. 4S. discolor Nurt., i, 394 (“294” by error of paging) ; 
UID OSD Coias SOD 5 2008 eM edsui tie) Go lk asl ste DISCOLOR: 
Grace's Warbler. @ in spring: bluish-ash, back with black streaks, 
crown with still more black streaks, so crowded anteriorly and on the sides 
as to become continuous ; chin, throat and breast rich yellow, ending abruptly 
against the white of the other under parts; sides of neck and body with 
numerous black streaks; a broad yellow superciliary line, changing to 
white behind the eye; no white patch below auriculars ; lower eyelid yellow; 
a black line from bill to eye, with which the streaks of the side of the neck 
connect; two white wing-bars, the anterior one much the stronger; tail 
blotches large, the outer one occupying nearly all the feather ; bill and feet 
black. 9 not particularly different. Young: dull brownish (like young 
coronata) with few or no black streaks on back, crown or along sides ; throat, 
eyelid and superciliary line rich yellow, as in the adult; other under parts 
soiled whitish. 5-54, wing 2%, tail 24, bill under 4. New Mexico, Arizona 
and southward; abundant, and breeding, at Fort Whipple (Cowes). An 
interesting lately discovered species, closely resembling the next. Cougs, 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philada., 1866, p. 67. Barrp, Rev. 210; Coorrr, 
ea (OP DENCis) mone nate cl a -uieS plate) s.8 0. ot.) GRACIA: 
Yellow-throated Warbler. Much like the last species, with which its 
changes of plumage are entirely correspondent; no yellow in the black 
under the eye; a white patch separating the black of the cheeks from the 
bluish ash of the neck; superciliary line usually yellow from bill to eye, 
thence white to nape, sometimes entirely white; bill very long (at least 4), 
extremely compressed, almost a little decurved. South Atlantic and Gulf 
