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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



catchers. The nest is placed on the ground, and is of an oval or spherical 

 form with a round opening on one side. The sexes are similar, and tlie 

 young differ very little from the parents. 



Gexus 



Meyer & Wolf. 



Phyllopncustc, Meyer & Wolf, Taschenbuth, 1S22. — Deulaxd et (Jerbe, Oniith. Europ. 

 1, 18t)7, 543. 



Gen. Cuar. Bill shorter than the head; straight, slender, and depressed, notched 



at tij). Nr>st rils open. Tarsi leiiirthened ; 

 exeee<ling the middle toe; seutellate an- 

 teriorly, but ^vith the plates indistinct, 

 claws short, much curved. Wings point- 

 ed, longer than tail, and reaching at 

 least to its middle; spurious quill ex- 

 tending farther than the upper covert. 

 Tail emarginate. 01ivae<'ous above ; 

 yellowish or whitish beneath. 



43009 



PhyVopnt iiste hortalis. 



For the purpose of distinguishing this genus from any other Xorth 

 American, it is enough to say that, of the 

 general appearance of the warblers, it has 

 a short spurious first primary, as in the 

 Thrushes, and some Virconhlo'. The single 

 species found as yet within our limits re- 

 sembles at first sight an immature DoHlroica 

 a:sfiva, Init is easily distinguished l)y the 

 wing formula, the yellowish stripe over the 

 eye, and the brown tail-feathers. 





Phyllopneuilt bun alis. 



Phyllopneuste borealis, Blas. 



ALASKA WILLOW WASBLEB. 



PhtillopncuHte homilis, Blas. Ibis, 1862, 69. PhijUopiicustc, Kknn., Bairp, Trans. Chicago 

 Acad. Sci. I, ii, p. 313, pi. xxx, tig 2, 1869. 



Sp. Char. (Description of specimen No. 45.000.) Plumage in August : above olive- 

 green, with a slight shade of lirown on top of head, rather lighter behind : beneath white, 

 tinircd with irreenish-vellow ; more olive on the throat and breast : and more yellow 

 behind, inside the wirg and on thighs; axillars purer yellow. A well-marked greenish- 

 yellow line from nostrils over the eye to the nape (extending behind the eye nearly as 

 far as from eye to tip of bill), beneath this an olivaceous streak ihrough the eye, running 

 into the mixed olive and yellowish of the checks. Quills and tail-feathers brown, edged 

 with olivaceous ; the outer edges of primaries more y«'llowish than those of secondaries ; 

 the greater coverts tipped externally with greenish-yellow, so as to form a distinct baud 



