8VLV1('()L1D.E — TIIK WAliULEKS. 





Dendroica coronata, ('rav. 



TELLOW-BUMF WABBLER; MTBTLE WABBLEB. 



Moti'cilhi cnroivttd, \ass. Syst. Nat. I, 17«">«>. •?;»•?. Siilrln rnroinifii, Lath. ; Vir.ll.l.nr; 

 Wii„s. ; NiTT. ; Aii>. (hii. Wu*'^. II, |il. tliii. Si/Zritd/n curi'ii'ifii. Swains, ; liox. ; Ari>. 

 Birds, Am. 11, pi. I\xvi.-. Funks, Nat. iMTmiKla, ,"►!> (alminiaiit in .\jnil). Ihmlroiai 

 coroimdi, (Jkay, (Itiuia. 1S42, 2. — Baikp, liinls N. Ain. IS.'iS, •111; \W\ . INJ. — 

 Maiuii, r. A. N. Sf. 1^^5.•{, "Jl^'J t.Iainaica, in suniiiicr : hrcttlini,'*. (!iM>i,. tab. .lour. 

 18<il, :V2«) (Culia : coniiiuiii). — ('oun:i: A: Sii kiky. 1*. If. \\. XII, ii, lS.".>t, lSO(Pu;,'t't 

 Souiul). — Samiki.s, -Jli^J. — Dai.L it IJannisikk ^Alaska). CtMUKU, Din. fal. I, 

 1870, M>. /,'/iii/i<ni/>/uis III/-. CaI!. .I«»ur. 1S."».">, tT.". (Culia). .\/nf,ni//ii <;iiitiif) usis, LiNN. 

 12tli I'll. 17»>t>, '.\'\\ {Fi-rddld iiiiiiiih iisis ii,i< ri-,), \\\. HI, .'(24, j>l. .\.\vii, li<^. 1). /'urits 

 vii'ijiitutiiK^, Linn. 12tli <■(!. Syst. X;it. I, 17t>tt. :?t2. Mtiftul/fn uinhrid, cincta, jtiinjuis, 

 (»M. Siflritt .nnif/io/ni'ii'i, Vir.n.l.. Siilrix .rinithi^rnii, Vii.ii. I.. 



Lotalitcs (piotcd : S. (,'r'-r,i/,nitf, l{i.iNMAi:i»r, Ihis, 1S»;1, ."i. ('onfnni, Sci.. P. Z. S. 

 1850, 2*J1. Xii/(ij),f, In. 1S.'»1>, :'>t;:5. liiditinm!,!, ii.i\.. ii. Salv. iN.'iH, 11. ramuaa. 

 Lawk. Ann. N. Y. Lye. VIII, »>:5. ruhii, winter, Cak. .lour. Ill, 473. liuhnmts, 

 winti'r, IJiiYANT, I»i>st. Vv. V!l, l.s.M». Juiniiioi, (iossi:, llirds .Iain. !.'».'). St. Ihnniu- 

 go, Sali-k, I'. Z. S. 18.')7, 2;il. (.«/</ L'iia, La%vk. OrizolHi, wiutor, SiMiriiKA.sr. 



Sp. Ciiak. Al'ovc 1»liiisli-asli, sfrcalo'd witli IHack. riidfr parts \vliit»\ The foivitart 

 of" broast aiul tlio sides black, tlic ti-atlu-rs mostly t'dpcd iianowly \Yith Avliitf. Crown, 

 niinj), and sitb's ot* breast yellow. Cheeks and lores blaek. The «'yelidsand a siipereiliaiy 

 stripe, two baiuls on the winLT and s]>ots on the outer three tail-teat hers, whit<'. Fcinalt 

 of duller pliiinair*' and browner above. Li'iii^th, ">,«>."); winir, o.Oth tail, 2.')0. 



IIaii. Eastern Proviiu-t^ of Nortli AiiK-riea, and northward, exteiidinir spars(»ly aloni*' 

 United Stat«'s boundary to Paeitie Oeean ; Denver City, Colorado; Port Yukon; (Jreeiiland; 

 Eastern Me.xieo to Panama R. K, ; Western West Indies and Bermuda. Preeds in .lainaica! 



Autnuinal and wiiitor ]»inls aiv vorv luiicli duller and nioiv obscuivly col- 

 ored, the ui»per ])arts of an uuiIkt ca-st with the streaks almost ohscdete ; the 

 blaek of the breast wantinu: <>r but just indicated, and the yeUow patches on 

 crown almost concealed by the brown tips to the feathers, and those on side 

 of breast ([uite dull. 



A sprinij male (r)2,283) from Washinuton is remarkable in having the 

 adjoininu series of feathers down the mitUUe of the back with their inner 

 webs broadly ed^ed with yellow. In this respect it ditlers from all others 

 that we have noticed. 



H.viUTs. The Vellow-crowned Wood Warbler is one of the most connnon 

 species of this genus, as well as one of the most witlely tlistributed. It is 

 found, at ditlerent seasons, throughout the eastern ])art of the continent, as 

 far west as the Great Plains, extendimj: at the far north to the Pacitic Ocean. 

 It has been found in (Ireenhind, three specimens havini»" been taken within 

 twenty years, and on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, and diiriui; the winter 

 in the West India Islands, Mexico, and Centra! America. Specimens from 

 Florida and Fort Steilacoom, Panama, Ouatemala, and Jamaica, and from Fcut 

 Hae. Andersvm Piver, and the Vuknn, in the collection of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, attest its wi<l«' distriluition. In Jamaica, in the neighborhood of 



