HOODED WARBLER 



18. Wilsonia citrina (Boddaert) 

 Hooded Warbler 



Wilsonia mitrata RIDGWAY, Birds of N. and M. Amer., 

 II, p. 705, 1902. 



Length, 125 mm. (4.90 in.); tail, 56 mm. 

 (2.20 in.). 



Male. Forehead, front of crown, cheeks and 

 ear coverts bright yellow, the remainder of head 

 including throat and sides of neck, black ; remain- 

 ing upperparts, wings and tail olive green, the 

 three outer tail feathers with inner webs mostly 

 white; remainder of underparts yellow, abruptly 

 outlined on the chest by the rounded lower edge 

 of the black throat. 



Female and young. Similar to male but 

 duller, the hood more dusky and incomplete, the 

 throat yellow, sometimes with a fairly dusky 

 collar crossing upper chest. 



A rare winter visitant; the male unmistakable 

 from its distinctive marking. 



19. Wilsonia canadensis (Linnaeus) 

 Canadian Warbler 



Length, 123 mm. ' (4.80 in.); tail, 54 mm. 

 (2.15 in.). 



Male. Above gray, the crown spotted with 

 black, the forehead black; a line of yellow from 

 nostrils to, and encircling, eye forming an eye 

 ring; region in front of, immediately below eye 

 and an elongate patch behind eye, black; under- 

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