BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER 



ii. Dendroica fusca (Miiller) 

 Blackburnian Warbler 



Dendroica blackburnice RIDGWAY, Birds of N. and M. 

 Amer., II, p. 574, 1902. 



Length 114 mm. (4.50 in.); tail 47 mm. (1.85 

 in.) 



Male. Spring. Whole head and nape black 

 with an oval patch of orange on middle of crown, 

 a broad orange stripe over eye joining an 

 orange patch on sides of neck and an orange line 

 below the nape; remaining upper parts black 

 streaked with whitish; wing coverts tipped with 

 white, forming a conspicuous white wing patch; 

 some white on outer tail feathers, but tips black; 

 throat and chest bright orange ; remaining under 

 parts yellowish white, the sides and flanks 

 streaked with black. 



Fall. Similar but orange of plumage much 

 paler; more olive above and with two white 

 wing bars. 



Female. Similar to male in fall but duller 

 in coloration in spring and still duller in fall, 

 the orange of chest often merely yellow. 



Young male. Similar to female in fall. 



A rare migrant of decided and brilliant 

 coloring. 



12. Dendroica virens (Gmelin) 

 Black-throated Green Warbler 



Length 112 mm. (4.40 in.); tail 47 mm. (1.90 

 in.). 



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