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Dendroica townsendi, r.-viiii). 



TOWKSEKD'S WABBLEB. 



S>/fria fnir,iS4',ii/i, " Nttiai.!.," TtAVNsKM', -). A. N. So. VII. II, l;>:}7, 11»1. — Am. Orn. 

 Hiog. V, l^:yj, pi. .•irxtiii. S;ilvio>hi t. I'x.s. ; Ari>. IJinls Am. II, 1M41, pi. xt ii. 

 I),n,i;„r>t f. li.viiM., iJinls X. Am. 18'>S, 2«J1» ; Ht'V. IS'k — S« latki:, P. Z. S. Lsr»8, 

 298 (Oaxina ; high laiuls in \viiit«'i ) ; isr»l», :>74 iT()tunt»*iMT ; wiiitrr) : Ibis, 1865, SO. 

 — ScLATKIl & SaLVIN, Ihis, 18ol>, 11 (( Juatt'liiala). — ( 'ooPEK k SnKI.KY, V. K. |{. 

 XII, II, 1S:.1», 179 (Cul.). — TuiiMJiLi., Birds ».l Kast IVnii., «'ti-. l&tJ9, 42. —Sim. k- 

 VAL, Otveis. 1869, 610 (Sitka). — Cuni-Ki:, Orn. Vul. I, 1870, 91. 



Sp. Char. Sprhnj male. Aliovc luiirlit olivc-LTt-r'n : the trathcrs nil Itlack in the ceutro. 

 showiiitr more or less as streaks, t'spccialiy oil tlie en »\vii. where tlu' black piedonuiiates. 

 Quills, tail, and ujiper tail-eovert teatluTs dark lirowii. ed,ire<l with l>hiish-j,n-ay ; the 

 win«xs with two whiti; hands on tne eoveits ; the two outer tail-leathers white with a 

 brown streak near the end: a white streak «)iily in the end of the third leather. I'nder 

 parts a^> far a.s the middle of tlic body, with the sides of liead and iieek. inrhidinLr a snjH'r- 

 ciliary stripe and a spot l)eneath the eye. yellow: the median portion of the sido (»f the 

 head, the chin and throat, with streaks on the sides of tlie breast. Hanks, antl uinl< r tail- 

 coverts, black; the remainder of the under parts white. Leiiirth, o inches; wintr. 'J.Oo ; 

 taill, 2.-JO. 



Sprlitff ferunh'. Reseinlilinir the male, but the Ijlack patch on the throat replaced by 

 irre*;nlar blotches upon a [.ure \'ellow irrouiid. 



Hab. Western Province of rniteil States, north to Sitka; Mexico, into Guatemala. 

 Migratory. Accidental near I'liiladelphia. 



The autiiiiiniil adult male is niuch like the s])riiiu female, hut the hlack 

 throat-])ateh is i)eit"eetlv detined, thmmh umch ohscured hv the vellow ed'^es 

 of the feather-s, instead of hroken into small idotches. The youii«:f male in 

 autumn is similar in general ai)}>earanee, hut there are no streaks ahuve, exee])t 

 on the crown, where tliey are mostly concealed ; the stripe on side of head 

 is olivaceous, instead of hlack ; and nearly all the hlack on the throat is con- 

 cealed. 



A tine adult male of this species was taken near rhiladelj)hia, Penn., in 

 the spring of l.SOS, and is now in the collection of the late W. P. TurnhuU, 

 Es'i-, of that city. 



Habits. In regard to the habits of this very rare Western AVarhler very 

 little is as yet positively known, and nothing wliatever has l»een ascertained 

 as to its nestinir or eui»s. The si)ecies was first met with hv ^Ir. Townsend, 

 October 28, 18:35, on the banks of the Colundna Piver, and was named by 

 Mr. Xuttall in honor of its discoverer. It is si>oken of hv these wntlemen 

 as having been a transient visitor only, sto])ping but a few days, on its way 

 north, to recruit ami feed, previous to its (h'partini^ for the higher hititudes in 

 which it spends the breediuij-season. It is, however, ([uite as })robal)le that 

 they disperse by pairs into solitary places, where for a while they escape ob- 

 servation. When the season auain com]>els them to mij^rate, they reappear 

 on the same path, only this time in small and silent Hocks, as they slowly 

 move toward their winter (piarters. These birds also are chiefly to be found 



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