D. DOMINICA : YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER. I49 



YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER. 



DeNDRCECA DOMINICA (Z.) Bd. 



Chars. Male, adult : " Upper parts uniform grayish-blue. Chin and 

 throat bright yellow; under parts white. Forehead, and some- 

 times most of crown, lores, and cheeks, sides of throat, and nu- 

 merous streaks on the sides of the breast, black. A stripe from 

 the nostrils over and behind the eye, a crescent on the lower eye- 

 lid, the sides of the neck behind the black cheek-patch, and two 

 conspicuous bands on the wings, white. Terminal half of the 

 outer two, and terminal third of the third tail-feathers, white. 

 Female almost precisely similar. Length, 5.10 ; wing, 2.60; tail, 

 2.30." {Baird.) 



A very rare and casual visitor to Connecticut and 

 Massachusetts. The earHer records of this species in 

 New England are unsatisfactory, and not to be relied 

 upon. (Cf. Cones, Pr. Essex Inst., v, 1868, p. 270; 

 Birds Northwest, 1874, p. 66 ; Merriam, Rev. B. 

 Conn., 1877, p. 17.) We have, however, authentic 

 advices of later date. Mr. Merriam says (/. c.) : "A 

 rare accidental visitor from the South. Dr. Daniel 

 Crary, of Hartford, Conn., writes me, that during 

 fifteen years of bird collecting in that vicinity (in the 

 Connecticut valley), he has secured several specimens 

 of this rare species. Dr. E. L. R. Thompson also 

 assures me that he has seen it about New Haven." 

 Again, Mr. H. A. Purdie mentions a specimen cap- 

 tured by Mr. G. E. Browne, of Dedham, Mass., "on 

 the banks of Charles River in that town nine or ten 

 years ago" (Bull. Nutt. Club, iii, 1878, p. 146). The 

 bird really belongs to the South Atlantic States, being 

 rarely seen even in the Middle States, though recorded 

 by Mr. Lawrence in his New York list. 



