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minutely tipped on the throat and chest with yellow, on the sides and 

 crown with green ; yellow of head minutely tipped with blackish, especially 

 on the lores, where the black nearly obscures the yellow. Entire under- 

 paid pale lemon-yellow, greenish on sides ; wings and tail as in adults, 

 but lower wing-coverts slightly tipped with yellowish. Back and sides 

 show less intense olive-green than the middle and lower back ; three outer 

 tail-feathers blotched on inner webs with white, that of the third being 

 smaller and restricted to the end. Feet and tarsi paler than in adults, as 

 is also the bill, especially the lower mandible, which has only a little 

 black beneath near the tip. 



Voiing female, fully fledged, No. 133230, U. S. N. M. Coll., Studley , 

 Hanover County, Virginia, July, 1894. Entire plumage similar in pattern 

 to those spring and summer females showing a least amount of black 

 on head. Yellow of sides of face obscured by the greenish tips of the 

 feathers, being especially darker on the ear-coverts. Green of head con- 

 tinuous in the center to the bill, completely obscuring the yellow 

 bases of the forehead feathers. Lores lemon-yellow but densely tipped 

 with black, appearing much darker than in adults. Yellow around 

 eyes well defined and continuing backwards as abroad stripe over centei 

 of auriculars. Underparts uniform palish lemon-yellow; sides greenish; 

 throat paler with a greenish darkening just below showing very faintly 

 the outlines of a breast patch. A little above and behind the eyes are 

 several nearly concealed black feathers with green lips. Hill and feet 

 as in the young male; tail similar but with the inner blotch nearly 

 surrounded with dark color. 



A description of a bird is necessarily confined to its plumage 

 conditions at Hie time of its being collected; hence 1 have 

 attempted above to give some idea of (lie rapid change I hat this 

 specie's undergoes from the nestling to an apparently fnll Hedged 

 bird. 1 Additional specimens kindly collected forme during July 

 and August, by my young friend, Master P. Henry Aylett, of 

 King William County, together with others collected by myself 

 in Hanover and King William Counties, Virginia, during the 

 latter part of August of this year, indicate that a further, but 

 much slower change has taken place. Upon lifting the feathers 

 of the last two specimens described above, a few pin feathers 

 will be found which might casually be considered as the last 

 feathers to complete the change from the nestling. A comparison 

 of these and others of similar date with older voung birds 



1 It was impossible to get the exact time. None in the nestling plumage were 

 seen after June 25, or like Figs. ( and.; after fune 30. None like Figs. 3 and 4 

 were Seen after July 4, and no fully changed birds wen: seen before the same date. 

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