i8o4 I Palmer, Plumages of the Hooded Warbler. 285 



Young birds of both sexes are identical in coloration when they 

 leave the nest, the body feathers being a pale slate color with 

 more or less brownish drab tips, appearing darker where the 

 feathers are thickest ; such as across the chest, on the sides of 

 the head over the eyes, in the center of the back and on the wings. 

 The tips of the back feathers are decidedly reddish. Feathers of the 

 underparts below the breast nearly white, tipped with yellowish. 

 Ear-coverts slightly yellowish ; edges of wing-coverts distinct and 

 pale reddish. Rictal bristles very short. Tail-feathers in the 

 female 1.13 inches, in the male 1.38 inches. Inner webs of three 

 outer tail-feathers blotched with white. Upon lifting the breast 

 feathers the yellow pin feathers of the new plumage are easily 

 seen. No. 133223, male juv., and No. 133224, U. S. N. M. 

 Coll., female juv., Studley, Hanover County, Virginia, June 25, 

 1894. Both of the above were from the same nest, the parents 

 also being secured, the black on the female being confined to a 

 spot on each side of the crown ; evidently a bird of the previous 

 year. 



The first true body feathers to appear in both sexes are a line 

 of yellow on each side of the breast, as seen in so many young 

 birds, and at the same time a few appear as pin feathers within 

 the area enclosed by the two branches of the lower mandible. A 

 series of fifteen males and eleven females show well the various 

 stages from the nestling to the fully fledged young. 



No. 133225, male juv., June 25, 1S94, Studley, Hanover 

 County, Virginia, U. S. N. M. Coll., has considerable green on 

 the back below the neck ; the yellow of the abdomen is decided 

 and exists as two stripes, separated by a broader division of the 

 nestling plumage. A slight line of yellow appears extending 

 backwards from the posterior corner of the eye. The area 

 between the eye and bill is also yellow, the wiry tips of the 

 feathers being black ; rictal feathers longer but not yet fully 

 grown. The yellow of the lores meets under the eyes a faint 

 line of yellow extending from the edge of the feathering on the 

 lower mandible to past the eye and almost encircling the ear- 

 coverts. The first black appears in the form of two lines under 

 the throat as shown in Fig. 1 . Pin feathers are numerous on a 

 line in the center of the crown, the posterior end of which shows 

 the tips of new black feathers. Wing-coverts unchanged. Tail 

 1.88 inches long:. 



