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ers, excepting the middle pair, with large white spots. Adult male 

 with the head blui.-^h, bordered in front with black; loral space, 

 cheeks, hind neck, and fore part of the back of the same color, rest 

 part of the back grayish-blue, tinged with olive ; rump yellow ; 

 upper tail coverts and tail black; the inner webs of the tail feathers 

 about two thirds their length from the base are largely spotted with 

 white, excepting the middle pair, which are plain ; wings dark 

 brown, secondary and first row of smaller coverts margined and 

 broadly tipped with white ; throat pure yellow ; lower parts 

 bright yeleow, breast and sides marked with long spots of black ; 

 under tail coverts while ; eyelids white, with a band of the same 

 color behind the eye. Female with the plumage duller. 

 Length four inches and three quarters, wing two and one quarter. 

 This beautiful bird adorns the fields and orchards, and enlivens 

 the woods with its agreeable song. During some seasons, scarcely 

 a specimen .is observed on Long Island ; again, it occurs in con- 

 siderable numbers. I have met it in various localities; its notes, 

 though rather feeble, are soft and musical. With us it is a bird of 

 passage — arrives in the month of May, and. passes on to breed. 

 Like man}' of our warblers, it is found during the breeding season 

 at the White Mountains, New Hampshire. 



SYLVICOLA CORONATA— LATHAM. 



YELLOW. CROWNED WOOD WARBLER. 



Yellow-rump Warbler, Srivia coronala, Wils Amer. Orn. 



Sylvia coronata, Bmap. Syti. 



Yellow-crowned Warbler, or Myrtle Bird, Sylvia coronata, Nutt. Man. 



Yellow-rump Warb!er Salvia foronaia, And. Orn. Biag. 



Specific Character — Crown, rump, and a large patch on the sides, 

 of the body bright yellow. Adult male, cheeks and a line before 

 the eye black ; lower eyelid and a line over the eye> white; crown, 

 rump, and a large patch on the sides of the hody bright yellow ; 

 upper parts deep ash-gray, streaked with black ; secondary coverts 

 and first row of small coverts tipped and edged with white ; tail 

 feathers dark brown, the outer three with a patch of white on their 

 inner webs near the ends ; throat white ; lower portion of the fore 



