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Adult Female. — Resembles the male, but Is duller in coloration ; 

 the black on the head merely a triangular patch. 



Length 4.70, Aving 240, tail 1.96, tarsus .64, bill .28. 



Dr. Bryant includes this Warbler in his list, and considers it as 

 abundant as it is in the United States. I have included it on his 

 authority. 



Fig. Aud. Bds. N. A., Vol. II. pi. 96. 



DEXDRCECA TIGRINA. (f?/;;.) 

 Cape May Warbler. 



Winter Phtmagc, Male. — UpiDcr parts, olive -green, slightly 

 marked with black ; feathers of the head, black, edged with gray, 

 giving the top of the head a mottled appearance ; ear-coverts show- 

 ing very slight tinge of chestnut; superciliary stripe, yellow; a 

 yellow band passing round the sides of the throat, nearly joining 

 above ; under parts, bright yellow, streaked with black ; quills and 

 tail, dark brown, edged with yellowish white ; three outer tail-feathers 

 with patch of w-hite upon the inner webs; rump, yellow; crissum 

 yellowish white. 



Winter Plumage, Female. — Above, olivaceous ash, showing yel- 

 lowish on the rump; no black or chestnut about the head; tail- 

 spots not so clear as in the male ; beneath, whitish, slightly tinged 

 with yellow on the breast, and streaked with dusky, not black, as 

 in the male. 



Length 4.75, wing 2.S0, tail 2, tarsus .So, bill .40. 



