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SYLVICOLIDZ, WARBLERS.—GEN. 38. 107 
running from bill below eye and thence down the side of the neck; wings 
and tail unmarked, glossed with olive; feet flesh color; 533; wing 23-3; tail 
2-24. Young birds have the black obscure if not wanting; in the fall, 
the black feathers of the crown of the adult are skirted with ash. Eastern 
United States, north to the Connecticut Valley ; 
not abundant, but common in certain sections, as in 
southern Illinois (J?édgway) and Kansas (Coues). 
Meevosplai4; -bD:, 247. -\. » « ~~»  ‘FORMOSUS. 
38. Genus GEOTHLYPIS Cabanis. 
Maryland Yellow-throat. 2 in spring: olive- 
green, rather grayer anteriorly, forehead and a 
broad band through the eye to the neck pure black, bordered above with 
hoary ash; chin, throat, breast, under tail coverts and edge of wing rich 
yellow, fading into whitish on the belly ; wings and tail unmarked, glossed 
with olive; bill black, feet flesh colored. 9 in spring, without the definite 
black and ash on the head, the crown generally brownish, the yellow pale 
and restricted. The young, in general, resembles 
the 9, at any rate lacking the head markings of the 
g ; but it is sometimes buffy brownish below, some- 
times almost entirely clear yellow. In any plumage, 
the bird is distinguished from warblers of any other 
genus, by having the wings shorter, or at most not 
longer, than the tail; and from the two following 
Fic. 47. Maryland Yellow- species by having no clear ash on the throat. Length 
an 49-5; wing and tail 1{-24. United States, from 
Atlantic to Pacific; Mexico, West Indies and Central America. An abund- 
ant and familiar inhabitant of shrubbery and underbrush, the sameness of 
which is enlivened by its sprightly presence and hearty song, throughout 
the summer months. Wuts., i, 88, pl. 6, f. 1; Nurr., i, 401; Aup., ii, 
oa plkOssDy, 240. 99. fy 5 tet Sherer. teats tol Oo eee) DRIOEUAS: 
Mourning Warbler. Bright olive, below clear yellow; on the head the 
olive passes insensibly into ash; in high plumage the throat and breast are 
black, but are generally ash, showing black traces, the feathers being black 
skirted with ash, producing a peculiar appearance suggestive of the bird’s 
wearing crape ; wings and tail unmarked, glossed with olive ; under mandi- 
ble and feet flesh color; no white about eyes. Young birds have little or 
no ashy on the head, and no black on the throat, thus closely resembling 
Oporornis agilis, but are of course distinguishable by their generic charac- 
ters; 54-54; wing and tail, each, about 24. Eastern United States, rare ; 
Minnesota, “abundant” (Trippe) ; a shy, retiring inhabitant of dense shrub- 
bery. Wuts., i, 101, pl. 14; Norr., i, 404; Aun., ii, 76, pl. 101; Bo., 
243. Bt crtlyhe Ne. | ure a ae aa ae PHILADELPHIA. 
Macgillivray’s Warbler. Precisely like the last species, excepting that it 
+. 46. Kentucky Warbler. 
