THE WESTERN CHAT. __ ez 
Taken in Oregon. Photo by H. T. Bohlman and W. L. Finley. 
AN ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION. 
MALE PACIFIC YELLOW-THROAT FEEDING YOUNG. 
very anxious to aid me in finding their home. After tiring me with their 
deceit, they sneaked away fifty yards to the nest. A little later in the 
season I happened to see the father carrying worms and discovered the 
young Yellow-throats just about to leave home. 
WiiiiaM L. FINney. 
No. 83. 
WESTERN CHAT. 
A. O. U. No. 683 a. Icteria virens longicauda (Lawrence). 
Synonym.—Lonc-TAILED CHAT. 
Description.—Adult male: Above grayish olive-green; fuscous on exposed 
inner webs of wings and tail; a prominent line above lores and eye, a short malar 
stripe, and eye-ring, white ; enclosed space black on lores, less pure behind ; throat, 
breast, lining of wings, and upper sides rich gamboge yellow; lower belly and 
crissum abruptly white; sides washed with brownish; bill black; feet plumbeous. 
Adult female: Very similar; bill lighter; lores and cheek-patch dusky rather 
than black; black appreciably lighter. Young: Dull olive above; head markings 
of adult faintly indicated; below grayish white, darker on breast, buffer behind. 
